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Mr. Weston

Michael C. Weston, senior consultant, joined Academic Search in 2004.  Previously, he served for twenty years as the chief legal officer of Northwestern University (vice president and general counsel 1990-2001, vice president for legal affairs 1981-1990), having joined Northwestern as university attorney in 1973.  He retired in 2001, but rejoined Northwestern in January 2002 as interim director of the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, a position he held until August 2002.

Prior to joining Northwestern, Mr. Weston was president of the Economic Development Corporation of Greater Detroit, a consortium of the major business and industrial firms in Detroit, Michigan, devoted to assisting minority-owned businesses.  Before that, he was in private law practice in Detroit.

Mr. Weston was president of the National Association of College and University Attorneys in 1995-96 and served two terms on that organization’s Board of Directors.  He was awarded Life Membership in NACUA in 2001.  He is a member of the American Bar Association and served in the ABA’s House of Delegates.  He was also co-chair of the Educational Organizations Subcommittee of the ABA’s Section of Taxation.

Mr. Weston is the author of  “Economic Development Corporations,” which appeared in a special issue of The Business Lawyer in September 1969, and “Outside Activities of Faculty Members,”which was published in The Journal of College and University Law in April 1981.  He has lectured extensively on legal issues in higher education.

Mr. Weston has been active in community affairs, having served as a board member, vice president for development, and president of Youth Organizations Umbrella, Inc., an Evanston, Illinois youth services agency.

He received his A.B. in English from Brown University in 1960 and his J.D. from The University of Michigan Law School in 1963.