Alex Kiles '14 Receives Butler Rubin Scholarship

February 7, 2012 Business Wire

The Chicago-based law firm Butler Rubin Saltarelli & Boyd LLP has awarded its annual diversity scholarship to University of Chicago Law School student K. Alex Kiles. Kiles becomes the seventh recipient of Butler Rubin's annual scholarship focused on fostering diversity in the legal profession.

Kiles is currently a first-year law student and expects to receive his law degree in 2014. In addition to a $10,000 renewable scholarship for tuition and other expenses associated with law school, Kiles will work as a 2012 summer associate at Butler Rubin.

"Each year we recognize an exceptional diverse law student and Alex impressed us with his skills, work ethic and commitment to give back to the community," said Karen M. Borg, a partner and co-chair of the firm's Diversity Committee.

A graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, Kiles was a double major in political science and Spanish and served as Senior Class President and as coordinator of a mentoring network, Student Contact Program. During school summers, Kiles worked as an SEO Corporate Law Intern at WilmerHale LLP in Washington, D.C. and as a staff member of Kids Who Care International Summer Stock Company in Fort Worth, Texas.