Nestled among the lofted classrooms, study areas and event spaces that make up Northeastern University’s downtown Vancouver skyscraper-as-campus exists a special opportunity to gain real-world exposure to the city’s bubbling startup scene
In October 2023, Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO) held a meeting with some of the top law firms in the United States. For years, the nonprofit had operated a diversity fellowship that placed “underrepresented” law students at white-shoe firms the summer before their 1L year. With law firms abandoning similar programs in the wake of…