Your Name Here
From Saucy Intruders, I find out that it only takes $3 million to get Harvard Law School to name a classroom after your law firm. According to this list, that same $3 million could also get you a professorship, and it would take $5 million to get the Student Residence Center, whatever that is, so it sounds like Kirkland & Ellis got a pretty sweet deal here.
On the other hand, it only cost $2 million a year to name the Fleetcenter (link).
Really, though, I think Kirkland & Ellis could have done better. Name a classroom after your law firm and we’ll just associate your name with boredom, solitaire, and the Socratic Method. Instead, buy a bar, buy a pool table for the dorms, buy a vending machine and make it free. Associate your name with alcohol, caffeine, or something fun, and we’ll remember that.
Or, if you insist on sticking with something academic, buy a law review. The Kirkland & Ellis Journal of Complex Transactional, Litigation, Intellectual Property, and Restructuring Matters. Well, you can come up with a better name, I’m sure, but you get into law journals, work your way into a judicial opinion or two, and bam! You’re golden.