An article published by ALM, “Salary Wars Were So Last Week, Here Come the Training Wars?” highlights Milbank’s one-of-a-kind training program, Milbank@Harvard. The article notes that Milbank has made a “massive investment in training its lawyers” with the program, launched in 2011 in connection with Harvard’s Law and Business schools.
Through the Milbank@Harvard program, Milbank sends associates from all of its global offices to Cambridge each year over four years for a week, beginning around their fourth year. The associates attend intensive, interactive sessions with Harvard professors and Milbank partners on finance, business strategy, marketing, negotiations, macroeconomics and more.
The article quotes Scott Westfahl, Director of Executive Education at Harvard Law School, who helped design Milbank@Harvard with the firm. “This is actually a longer-term investment for us in showing how when a legal organization invests in significant professional skills … it will build the kind of collaboration and trust that will later on significantly enhance the law firm’s ability to service clients and also the personal and professional lives of the participants themselves,” he says, adding: “When the next generation of Milbank partners are forming, we’re going to see significant gains in collaboration, trust and alignment on strategy.”
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