Adopt-A-School Program: Investing In The Next Generation (Video)

Zack Klinger: The Adopt-a-School Program is an educational program run in five of the firm's offices around the country, where high-achieving high school juniors from low-income communities come to the firm once a month for enrichment opportunities.

Paul Hamburger: We want to be participants in our local community. The Adopt-a-School Program not only gives us the opportunity to be part of the program in the community, but it also allows us to engage one-on-one with students, and really have that opportunity to give back to them a lot of the mentoring, of which we were the beneficiaries when we were in their shoes.

Kevin Froner: The real gift, I think, of this program, which Proskauer's providing, is closing the gap on career readiness. So students being exposed to marketing workshops, in addition to interviewing skills, writing resumes--all of the soft skills that we know are so important, and rarely do we expose our students to these specific particular skills