Miles & Stockbridge offering free legal counsel to boost Black-owned businesses

Venroy July says his law firm's new program is neither a handout nor a charitable initiative. Rather, the lawyer at Miles & Stockbridge is working on a way to ease or eliminate what his law firm sees as a barrier to entry for Black-owned businesses. As companies across the country are scrambling to find ways to support Black-owned businesses amid a national reckoning over racial injustice, July’s firm launched a new effort providing $20,000 in legal counsel to some Black-owned businesses at…