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Staff from Macy's legal deparment host students at their St. Louis office for a one-day conference on April 24, 2007.
April 24, 2007 | St. Louis, MO
Volunteers from Macy’s legal division and area banks recently made separate visits to St. Louis Public Schools students to tutor them on the basics of the legal profession and personal finance.
Macy's hosted a one-day conference today to provide more than 50 students from Roosevelt High School and Gateway Institute of Technology with an inside look at the legal profession through the Street Law program.Macy's is the first company to sponsor the Street Law program in St. Louis. Street Law's Corporate Legal Division Pipeline program is an innovative approach to partnering corporate legal departments with high schools in an effort to teach the students about law and encourage them to consider careers in the legal profession.“Our law team has been extremely generous in giving their time and expertise to this program and to connect with students who might not have direct exposure to an attorney, paralegal or other legal administrators,” said Dennis Broderick, Macy's general counsel based in Cincinnati, who visited local students.“Additionally, we have the responsibility to help ensure that the legal profession is and continues to be diverse. Street Law is a terrific way to introduce students with diverse backgrounds to the many aspects of a career in law.”Teams from Macy's law department in St. Louis partnered with Roosevelt High School and Gateway Institute of Technology to develop the semester-long program. Macy's legal professionals then served as guest teachers in the classroom, and the program concluded with the one-day conference held at Macy's regional law office in St. Louis.During the day-long conference, the students interacted with approximately 20 members of the Macy's legal team and participated in small-group workshops simulating typical legal issues found in a business setting such as employment law, contracts and litigation."We are very grateful to Macy's for providing this opportunity for our students to learn more about the practice of law in the corporate world,” said Diana Bourisaw, superintendent of St. Louis Public Schools.“These types of real-world experiences are very important to encourage our students to pursue education beyond high school.”At a separate event, SLPS elementary students received a lesson in saving money from the people who know it best; area bankers. Volunteers from 10 local banks made presentations to students about the importance of saving money. The presentations included budgeting, how to save money and how interest makes money grow.The 10 schools that participated in Teach Children to Save Day were Dewey, Gateway, Hodgen, Kottmeyer, Mark Twain, Meramec, Monroe eMINTS, Mullanphy, Sigel and Simmons-Marshall.The program is managed by the Center for Entrepreneurship and Economic Education at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Sponsors include Commerce Bank, First Bank, First Community Bank, Frontenac Bank, Gateway Bank, Pulaski Bank, Reliance Bank, Royal Banks of Missouri, Southwest Bank and St. Louis Community Credit Union. The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis supports this program.
http://www.stlamerican.com/articles/2007/05/15/business/local_business/business02.prt
Source: St. Louis American (Reproduced with permission)
Corporate Legal Diversity Pipeline Program
Topic: Civic & Law-Related Education
Topic: Diversity
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