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Michael C. Weston, senior consultant, joined Academic Search in 2004. He has advised on searches for deans of law schools, deans of business schools, and general counsels.

Before joining Academic Search, Mr. Weston 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.

Previously, 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 and served two terms on that organization’s Board of Directors. He was awarded Life Membership in NACUA. Mr. Weston served in the House of Delegates of the American Bar Association and was co-chair of the Educational Organizational 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.

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.