David Pilson, eBay’s senior director of compensation, benefits and equity compliance, left, and Patricia Svilik, senior product and commercial counsel of global intellectual property, right.
Silicon Valley’s inside and outside counsel are teaming up to boost diversity in law, with a new 1L program that gives students from underrepresented backgrounds an opportunity to split 10 weeks of their summer between a firm and legal department.
Seven companies—eBay, Facebook, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, LendingClub, Symantec, Turo and Uber—and 12 firms*—Baker McKenzie; Boies Schiller Flexner; Cooley; Covington & Burling; Fenwick & West; Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher; Hogan Lovells; Mayer Brown; Morgan, Lewis & Bockius; Morrison Foerster; Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe; and Perkins Coie—will participate. Around 14 students will be selected for the paid internship.
