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Sameer Rao | March 7, 2021, 8:02 PM EST A pair of bills before the Maryland General Assembly could, if passed, bring the state s four storied, historically Black colleges and universities a historic $577 million dollars that supporters have argued will address long-standing and racist inequities in the state s higher education funding.
This redress would not have happened without a similarly unprecedented decade-plus of federal litigation, nor without the tenacious pro bono efforts, both in and out of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, of Kirkland & Ellis LLP partner Michael D. Jones.
Michael D. Jones guided a legal battle that is on track to bring Maryland s historically Black colleges and universities hundreds of millions of dollars in institutional funding.
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