The Kirkland & Ellis Foundation has donated nearly $5.5 million to support the University of Chicago Law School's Corporate Lab, which prepares students for corporate law careers and promotes research in that area.

The program has been renamed the Kirkland & Ellis Corporate Lab.

“We highly value the development of practical skills and wanted to support that aspect of the University of Chicago Law School curriculum,” said Kirkland partner Stephen Ritchie, who graduated from Chicago.