The law firm Kirkland & Ellis, which represented historically Black colleges and universities in Maryland in a lawsuit against the state, will donate the millions in fees it received from the settlement to colleges and nonprofits, The Washington Post reported. Alumni and advocates of the HBCUs sued Maryland over chronic underfunding of the institutions and settled the case
Dillard University is getting the largest of seven donations announced by a law firm that represented Maryland’s HBCU’s in a legal fight for equal funding.