James Roselle, Associate General Counsel, Northern Trust Corporation on being a clinic client, and the benefits both students and clients receive

I have been very pleased that Northern Trust has been able to participate in the University of Chicago Corporate Lab. The students are uniformly highly qualified and motivated and their assistance has been invaluable to our work.

It makes perfect sense that there would be a high demand for what the lab is doing – acting as a law school clinic that services for-profit corporations – as most law students at top schools go on to work in the private section, with similar corporate clients.

To give the students a jumpstart on their client development skills, and to provide them with similar substantive work to that which they will be assigned as associates at law firms, all the while receiving high quality work to less our legal department’s load, is a true win-win situation.

The lab students have been critical to the project on which they are working, and everyone on my staff who has encountered them – either on the phone, at lunch, or during one of their meetings in our office – has found them to be a professional delight.
 

James Roselle, Associate General Counsel, Northern Trust Corporation