'Match Made in Heaven': Meet Obama Foundation's New General Counsel
The disparity in resources between the nonprofit sector and a large law firm struck Shawn Ray White early. Everything from transportation to staffing, research and analysis were worlds apart.
March 26, 2021 at 10:33 AM
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Shawn Ray White, the incoming general counsel at the Obama Foundation, recalls one aspect of being a summer associate in New York very clearly. She remembers the long, black town car that picked her up at the Manhattan office of Schulte Roth & Zabel to drive her to the Bronx Legal Foundation every morning. In the poorest borough of New York she worked on a fellowship from Schulte Roth on landlord/tenant issues, asbestos, and lead paint in housing. The town car drove her home every night. "I made sure the fancy car dropped my legal assistant at home as well!" she remembers.
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