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  State : AR (1) | | | The Pre Law Undergraduate Scholars (PLUS)Program at the University of Arkansas - Little Rock Bowen School of Law is a month long summer program targeting current college students from groups underrepresented in law school. The goals are to encourage to students to consider careers in the legal profession and provide them the tools to gain admission and achieve success in law school. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Open to a general or national audience | | State : AZ (5) | | | This is the first annual event and will target prospective students who are members of ethnic groups that are traditionally under-represented within the legal profession. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Open to a general or national audience | | | Students, staff, faculty, attorneys, and community leaders have worked together to bring the Hispanic National Bar Association mentoring program to the Phoenix area. The program assigns participants to mentoring teams (sometimes called MentoRings), each of which ideally has at least one attorney, one law student, one college student, and one high school student. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Restricted to an institution, community or defined audience | | | Second- and third-year law students teach constitutional rights and responsibilities in public high schools, including a special curriculum on the history and future of democracy and the right to vote. The law students teach twice weekly, currently at South Mountain High School, through the semester. The class consists of open discussion of constitutional rights and cases, incorporating both current issues and hypothetical situations. In 2008, the first National Marshall-Brennan Moot Court Competition was implemented in which 71 high school students nationwide participated in. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Open to a general or national audience | | | Operation Preparation "Preparing to change the stats of minorities in law," a Phoenix School of Law Symposium. This event will target high school and some junior high school minorities. Students will also view and participate in the American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division Choose Law: A Profession for All. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Open to a general or national audience | | | Street Law is a community outreach program offered by the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University and facilitated by the Youth Mentoring Board student organization. A primary objective of the program is to increase diversity in the legal profession. Street Law strives not only to educate young people about the law, but to empower them to take an active role in the civic affairs of their schools, communities, and country. Another goal is that youth learn how to identify problems and make positive change in their lives and the lives of others. This youth educational program is facilitated by law students that teach in freshmen classes at South Mountain High School once per week. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Restricted to an institution, community or defined audience | | State : CA (19) | | | Dickstein Shapiro's Legal Pipeline Initiative is primarily focused on exposing to our attorneys middle and high school students who belong to groups that are traditionally underrepresented in the practice of law. Efforts include a number of high school mentoring programs, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, Street Law and entrepreneurship programs. The ultimate goal of these efforts is to enhance student perceptions of the legal profession as a career choice and of lawyers in general. Our attorneys interact directly with students and serve as role models. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Open to a general or national audience | | | Crowell & Moring LLP appreciates that its success as a law firm and its well-being as a community depends upon creating and maintaining a diverse team of talented professionals. The primary goal of the Firm's diversity team is to integrate diversity into all aspects of firm life through recruiting, retaining and encouraging people of diverse backgrounds. The firm implemented the following pipeline diversity programs:
- Scholarship: A $25,000 scholarship program to award grants to minority law students in the District of Columbia to help defray the costs of legal education.
- Internships: The creation and funding of two public service summer internships for Howard University law students.
- Outreach Program: The establishment of an educational outreach program in the community adjacent to the Firm's Irvine, California office to serve the predominantly Hispanic students who attend the poorest middle school in Orange County, California. | Latino | Open to a general or national audience | | | The King Hall Outreach Program (KHOP), generously supported by University of California Office of the President and the Law School Admission Council PLUS grant, is designed to be a pipeline program that truly impacts students who need assistance to reach their goal of attending law school or simply progressing beyond their undergraduate studies. Our mission is to provide education, support and preparation for law school to disadvantaged students attending colleges in the greater Sacramento area. Students admitted to the program must commit to participating in two consecutive summer programs.
The residential program includes intensive academic courses: writing, logical reasoning and a LSAT preparation course. Each summer, students spend nearly 30 hours in academic courses, and the seniors have an additional introduction to law class totaling over 16 hours. We also provide over 40 hours of tutoring during the summer. At the end of the fours weeks, the juniors participate in mock trials and the seniors prepare an appellate case, including a written brief, for Moot Court. Throughout the program, tutoring sessions in writing, logical reasoning, trial preparation and the law school admission process are mandatory. Law students serve as the tutors and resident assistants. During the academic year, law students volunteer as mentors and we provide field trips to regional law schools and court houses. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Open to a general or national audience | | | The Law Fellows Program provides early academic development to individuals with strong academic backgrounds. Preference is granted to applicants whose experiences reflect limited exposure to post-collegiate education, career opportunities, mentoring, and social support systems and who have overcome socio-economic challenges. The program's objective is increasing the participants' academic competitiveness for admission to law school.
Law Fellows attend a series of Saturday Academies held at UCLA School of Law where they are provided with mentoring, academic enrichment, and career development activities designed to de-mystify law school and the legal profession.
Events, programs and services, include: professional-level instruction by law school faculty, personalized Juris Doctorate action plan, mentoring by current UCLA law students, admissions, financial aid and public interest law workshops, legal research training by law library staff, full scholarships for LSAT Preparation Course, presentations by practicing attorneys and leaders in the law community, and follow-up activities and counseling until law school matriculation. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Open to a general or national audience | | | Law High is a program of California Western School of Law's (CWSL) Office of Diversity Services and the Institute for Criminal Defense Advocacy. The program brings high school students from downtown San Diego schools to the law school campus for a week of afternoons, where they: tour the law school; attend a mock law class taught by faculty; participate in workshops to deconstruct legal issues through role play and discussion; visit the courtroom and chambers of a federal judge where they shadow the judge and his clerks and participate in a mock trial or interactive learning exercise.
Law students participate as mentors and coaches throughout the program. Law High is intended to serve as an introduction to the law school environment and the practice of law for local inner city students, the majority of whom are members of working class or immigrant families. CWSL currently enrolls two law students who are alumni of the program. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Open to a general or national audience | | | LAWS (Law in Action Within Schools) is a partnership between The University of Toronto Faculty of Law and the Toronto District School Board to deliver an academic and extra-curricular program that teaches marginalized high school students about law and justice, and supports them to succeed in school.
LAWS engages students in their studies by offering interactive learning experiences that expose students to legal issues, the legal system, and the legal profession. The goal is to use legal education as a tool to assist students to complete high school, gain entry to post-secondary studies, and become informed and engaged citizens.
The Faculty of Law works with high school teachers, law students, professors and other legal professionals to deliver classroom workshops, a weekly tutoring/mentoring program, job shadowing opportunities, and paid summer jobs with legal employers. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Restricted to an institution, community or defined audience | | | The Committee on Women in the Law (CWIL) coordinates with law schools to present panel discussions on the realities of the practice of law from a woman lawyer's perspective and on a variety of levels, including women of color, lesbians, older women, women with disabilities. CWIL conducts workshops throughout the year and will also begin to "package" these presentations and make them available to local bars to use as a part of their outreach activities. CWIL is also determining ways to measure longterm impact for law students in terms of surviving law school, passing the bar exam, obtaining employment, and being able to respond successfully to the demands of the practice of law. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Open to a general or national audience | | | The State Bar of California will provide for free online sign ups to law students to be part of an email database to be shared with State Bar entities, local and diversity bars, and other law related entities. These groups will communicate with the students and provide information regarding the transitioning into the practice of law, networking and career opportunities, conferences, etc. The students will receive an electronic-version of the California Bar Journal, which will contain items of interest to law students.
A Career Forum, scheduled for February 2007, will be open to all students. This activity was conceived with the recognition that on-campus interviewing targets only the "cream of the crop," leaving most students (a large percentage of minority and other diverse students) without the opportunity to interface with potential employers. The Career Forum will provide exposures for all students. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Open to a general or national audience | | | The Education Pipeline Initiative aims to enlarge the qualified minority and low-income law school applicant pool. This is done by increasing college awareness of and access to educationally disadvantaged students in elementary, middle, and high school. Our activities include 1-on-1 mentoring; Law-themed curriculum; Parental Support Seminars; Tutoring; College Preparation and Financial Aid workshops; Moot Court/Mock Trial; Peer and Youth Courts; Street Law International; Law Office visits; and various other law-related activities.
Mission Statement: To maximize educational aspirations and opportunities for students disproportionately underrepresented in higher education, particularly law school.
| African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Restricted to an institution, community or defined audience | | | The Pacific Pathways project involves a unique partnership along the educational pipeline - the University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law, the College of the Pacific, the Benerd School of Education at the University of the Pacific, and the St. Hope Public Schools. The School of Law and Public Service, a small themed school within Sacramento High School has been highly involved in this initiative. This partnership works closely with members of the bench and bar throughout the state.
The Pacific Pathways project involves a cluster of activities including mentoring, teacher training, speaker series, college and law school onsite visits, Saturday seminars for students at law venues, and the like. This year it will begin an internship program geared at high school, college and law students working as a team. Entering its third year, the program has already shown positive results in high school persistence, academic rigor, and college attendance. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Restricted to an institution, community or defined audience | | | Provide pre law advising to students and alumni at UC Davis. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Restricted to an institution, community or defined audience | | | The Pre-Law Boot Camp is funded by University of California Office of the President and is designed to be a pipeline program that prepares students from disadvantaged backgrounds for the law school application process. Most participants attend four-year universities in the greater Sacramento area.
The program consists of five Saturday workshops covering general information about admissions and presentations from lawyers practicing in diverse legal fields. We also include individual pre-law advising, critiqued writing assignments, field trips and mentoring by current law students. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Open to a general or national audience | | | The California Mock Trial Program is a statewide academic competition in which high school students compete at the county, state and national level. The trial itself is a simulation of a criminal case, in which students portray each of the principals in the cast of courtroom characters. Student teams study a hypothetical case, conduct legal research, and receive guidance from volunteer attorneys in courtroom procedures and trial preparation. Students participate as lawyers, witnesses, court clerks, and bailiffs, thus acquiring a working knowledge of our judicial system. The Mock Trial Competition Program encourages young people to develop their analytical abilities and communication skills while gaining increased self-confidence. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Restricted to an institution, community or defined audience | | | The School of Law provides a comprehensive program of support including an Academic Success Program, academic, personal, and career advising, bar preparation, as well as numerous opportunities for professional development. Significant financial aid is also available. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Restricted to an institution, community or defined audience | | | The Bar Association of San Francisco School-To-College (STC) program is a yearlong high school mentoring and tutoring curriculum that inspires underserved and ethnically diverse students from Balboa High School to attend college - an option many of these students never knew existed. The STC program provides guidance, insights and opportunity for student in grades 9-12. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Restricted to an institution, community or defined audience | | | This project features a video, which depicts the criminal trial of two middle school students arrested for drug possession. The video is acted entirely by children. Volunteers will go to classrooms throughout San Diego County and use the video as a basis for teaching students about our legal system. The program is targeted for elementary and middle school students, and the program typically takes about two hours to present. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Restricted to an institution, community or defined audience | | | The committee works with representatives of the law schools, law students and YNLD to produce four program/events per year for law students. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Restricted to an institution, community or defined audience | | | The Summer Legal Fellowship Program provides disadvantaged high school students in the Oakland, California area with a full-time summer program that includes legal instruction at the UC Berkeley School of Law, life skills workshops, speakers and field trips, and paid law and government internships. We also provide one-on-one educational mentoring and other follow-up activities to youth after the summer program ends. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Open to a general or national audience | | | The McGill High School Outreach Program is an expression of this Faculty's commitment to its core values of learning from diversity and advancing learning through teaching, scholarship, and service to society. The Program aims to respond to the public interest in increasing access to higher education in general, and professional education in particular.
The Program also addresses the Faculty's own interest in recruiting the most diverse and representative student body, and its mission to provide our students with a dynamic and challenging learning environment that is informed by a plurality of perspectives.
The Program will include: the presentation of legal education as a viable and attractive option for everyone; the introduction of legal concepts to high school students; the development of ongoing mentorship relationships between your students and ours; the use of education and knowledge-sharing as a vehicle for empowerment and change. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Open to a general or national audience | | State : CO (4) | | | As part of Cooley Godward Kronish's ongoing commitment to recruiting, developing and retaining a diverse and talented team at all levels throughout the Firm, we are proud to offer Diversity Fellowships to outstanding law students. First-year law students with a diverse background, broadly defined to include ethnicity, gender, physical disability and sexual orientation, are invited to apply for one of 8 fellowships consisting of awards up to $15,000 to assist with law school tuition and an invitation to join Cooley's Summer Associate Program. Awards will be announced to the students in the summer following their first year of law school with the Summer Associate position to start following the successful completion of the recipient's 2L year. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Open to a general or national audience | | | The firm’s Diversity and Recruitment Committees will select one second-year law student from a top tier law school to receive a summer clerkship and scholarship—the largest award of its kind in the Mountain West.
The recipient will receive $10,000 to be applied toward law school tuition and/or expenses
incurred during the third year of law school. Additionally, the recipient will work as a paid
2010 Summer Associate. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Open to a general or national audience | | | The Colorado Campaign for Inclusive Excellence (CCIE), along with other bar organizations, is mobilizing Dream Teams to act as role models and informal mentors to inspire the next generation of lawyers and community leaders. Dream teams are small groups of attorneys, judges, and law students that will go into the community to work on pipeline projects in order to encourage more young people of color and other historically under-represented groups to consider law as a career. Dream Teams are assigned to two colleges or universities as well as an inner-city high school. They can also select from a list of existing pipeline opportunities or any other community project aimed at encouraging young people - especially those from historically under-represented groups - to consider entering the legal profession. Contact Kathleen Nalty, Executive Director of CCIE at knalty@colegaldiversity.org or 303-892-7401 for more information. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Open to a general or national audience | | | Holland & Hart is committed to fostering diversity. As a vocal member of the legal community, we actively support causes to promote and sustain diversity. We participate in numerous programs to continue this support, including Promoting Awareness Diversity in Legal Education, Arrupe Jesuite High School Corporate Work Project and Oh, The Places You'll Go - A Career in Law and How to Get Started.
Promoting Awareness and Diversity in Legal Education is a University of Idaho event that introduces minority students to law students and lawyers to discuss LSATs, financial aid, law school and legal career opportunities. Oh, The Places You'll Go is a similar event in Salt Lake City. We co-sponsor these events and our attorneys attend to discuss their legal experiences.
The Arrupe High School program lets inner city youth work in corporate settings once a week to pay their tuition. We currently have students working in information technology, office and financial services and the records center. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Open to a general or national audience | | State : CT (3) | | | The mentoring program of the Connecticut Asian Pacific American Bar Association was created to assist law students make the transition to careers in the legal profession. | Asian American | Restricted to an institution, community or defined audience | | | The San Diego County Bar Association and Association of Corporate Counsel-San Diego Diversity Fellowship Program (Program) was created in response to the low number of diverse attorneys practicing law in San Diego County law firms and corporate legal departments. The Program provides an opportunity for diverse, first year law students to learn and develop skills necessary to be successful in law firm and corporate legal department environments and exposes law firms and corporate legal departments to qualified individuals who might not otherwise be considered. The Program is modeled after similar initiatives in Sacramento, Puget Sound/Seattle, Cleveland, St. Louis, Columbus, Atlanta, and the Bay Area. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Restricted to an institution, community or defined audience | | | Academic Talent Search is a federally-funded TRIO program that encourages sixth through twelfth graders in Bridgeport, CT, to graduate from high school and enroll in post-secondary education. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Restricted to an institution, community or defined audience | | State : DC (14) | | | The firm’s offices have continued to strengthen our inclusive environment through the hiring of talented lawyers of diverse backgrounds. A prominent example of our creative approach to recruiting minority students is the Akin Gump Scholar program at New York University and Georgetown University. Through these programs, a first-year law student is assigned mentors from the firm, is an active participant in a variety of firm activities throughout the year, and is guaranteed a summer associate position with Akin Gump after the first year of law school. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Restricted to an institution, community or defined audience | | | AIE is an intensive pre-law weekend designed to introduc and prepare students for the rigors of law school. Those who successfully complete the seminar become CLEO Associates. The program is open to college graduates who have been accepted into an ABA-accredited law school. The seminors are held in July, one on the East Coast and one on the West Coast. Application deadline is May. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Open to a general or national audience | | | These seminars offer an intensive weekend devoted to academic counseling and imrpoving test-taking skills. It is open to all CLEO Fellows and Associates, and is held in February at various locations throughout the United States. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Restricted to an institution, community or defined audience | | | The Summer Institute is a six-week residential program designed to prepare participants to be more competitive law school students. Graduating seniors or graduates who plan to attend law school in the upcoming fall are eligible. It Those who successfully complete the program become CLEO Fellows and may be eligible for scholarship grants during law school. Sessions are held at various law schools, from June to July. Application deadlines are November 30th (early deadline) and February 1st (regular deadline). The program costs $2,000 (includes room, board and instructional materials). Some financial assistance may be available.
| African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Open to a general or national audience | | | WMACCA created the Corporate Scholars Program in 2004 to provide summer internship experiences in the legal departments of prestigious local companies and organizations to students in the WMACCA service area. The Corporate Scholars Program is designed to give the students the opportunity to learn about and experience the various areas of legal advocacy and general corporate practice that in-house counsel handle, as well as the relationship between providing business and legal advice to clients in a variety of substantive areas.
The Corporate Scholars Program is a “diversity pipeline” program. WMACCA hopes to get applications from populations that may otherwise lack access to these opportunities. Diversity for this Program is used in its broadest sense, not simply to convey ideas about gender, race, ethnicity, etc., but also concepts of socio-economic background and the student's individual educational and career path. Furthermore, diversity means obtaining a pool of applicants who are reflective of the work force in general and the communities that lawyers serve. The Corporate Scholars Program is seeking students who have good grades, strong writing skils, previous work experience, and some professional maturity.
The Corporate Scholars Program was established with the support of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA), WMACCA, and corporate and individual donors. In 2004, Legal Times published an article about the creation of the Scholars Program and its first year, which can be accessed here. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Open to a general or national audience | | | Covington & Burling LLP high school summer interns have the opportunity to gain valuable work experience, while developing and demonstrating their skills in
a law firm. Our internship program candidates come from diverse cultural and educational backgrounds. The intern students have the determination, passion
and integrity to strive for the best. In return, Covington & Burling LLP provides them with real world responsibility, outstanding training and a chance to learn
from the best. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Open to a general or national audience | | | Dickstein Shapiro's Legal Pipeline Initiative is primarily focused on exposing to our attorneys middle and high school students who belong to groups that are traditionally underrepresented in the practice of law. Efforts include a number of high school mentoring programs, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, Street Law and entrepreneurship programs. The ultimate goal of these efforts is to enhance student perceptions of the legal profession as a career choice and of lawyers in general. Our attorneys interact directly with students and serve as role models. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Open to a general or national audience | | | The Hispanic National Bar Foundation (HNBF) hosts its flagship program, the Future Latino Leaders Law Camp, each year at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. The free one-week long program provides twenty-five Hispanic high school students with an opportunity to meet prominent Latino leaders, learn about a variety of legal careers, participate in a mock trial, live on a college campus, and form long-lasting friendships.
Our law camp students oftentimes come from single parent homes, underfunded schools, and neighborhoods that make it difficult for them to look beyond high school. The HNBF Future Latino Leaders Law Camp gives them an opportunity to surround themselves with Hispanic attorney and law student role models, as well as a supportive peer network to help encourage them to rise above negative influences and strive towards college and beyond. | Latino | Restricted to an institution, community or defined audience | | | Our Denver office organized the first annual H&H Practical Skills Program workshop for first-year diverse students. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Open to a general or national audience | | | A partnership between Street Law, Inc. and NALP - the Association for Legal Career Professionals, this program pairs law firms with diverse groups of high school students. The goal is to teach the students about the law and legal careers, encourage them to pursue legal careers, and offer support in that pursuit. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Open to a general or national audience | | | A partnership between Street Law and NALP - the Association for Legal Career Professionals, this program partners law firms with diverse groups of high school students. The goal is to teach the students about the law and legal careers, encourage them to pursue legal careers, and offer support in that pursuit. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Open to a general or national audience | | | Sutherland Junior College is a Sutherland Asbill & Brennan firm program introduced in the Washington DC office in 2006. The program provides up to ten high school juniors the encouragement and tools to consider college as an option. The students meet weekly at Sutherland's offices, where they have access to tutoring, help with SAT preparation, and college counseling. Dozens of attorneys and staff members serve as mentors to these students and contribute in other ways to this effort. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Restricted to an institution, community or defined audience | | | In 1968 the Council on Legal Education Opportunity was founded as a non-profit project of the ABA Fund for Justice and Education to expand opportunities for minority and low-income students to attend law school. In 1998, Congress passed the Higher Education Amendments Act, creating the Thurgood Marshall Legal Educational Opportunity Program, which is administered by the Council on Legal Education Opportunity.
CLEO is committed to diversifying the legal profession by expanding legal education opportunities to minority, low-income and disadvantaged groups. Over the past 40 years, more than 8,000 students have participated in CLEO's pre-law and law school academic support programs, successfully matriculated through law school, passed the bar exam and joined the legal profession. CLEO alumni, many who had less than traditional academic indicators of success, yet were given an opportunity to attend law school, are represented in every area of the legal profession-private law firms and corporations, law schools, federal and state judiciaries, and legislators across the country. Currently, three CLEO alumni are members of the United States Congress. The influence of CLEO alumni in the legal profession, in particular and throughout the country in general, is an indication of the important role CLEO has played in helping to provide a voice to underrepresented groups.
The CLEO Governing Council is comprised of representatives from national bar associations and law school professional organizations including: the American Bar Association, Hispanic National Bar Association, Law School Admission Council, National Asian and Pacific American Bar Association, National Bar Association, National Native American Bar Association, Association of American Law Schools and the Society of American Law Teachers. In addition, more than 140 ABA-accredited law schools are members of the CLEO Consortium on Diversity in Legal Education.
To ensure the success of students who participate in the CLEO Program as well as accomplish its mission to diversify the legal profession, CLEO provides placement assistance, academic support and counseling, financial assistance, bar prep orientation, online tutoring programs and weekend seminars and workshops. The seminars and workshops generally address the continuing need for legal services to under-served and low-income communities, and stress the importance of the students' commitment to serve those communities upon graduation. In addition, as a means of extending the legal education pipeline, CLEO also provides training and workshops to college students who are interested in attending law school and pursuing a career in the legal profession.
We offer a number of programs including:
CLEO/Thurgood Marshall College Scholars Program
Sophomore Summer Institute (SSI)
CLEO Ambassadors
The CLEO Six-Week Summer Institute
Attitude Is Essential (AIE)
Mid-Summer Professional Development Seminar and Career Fair
Mid-Winter Bar Preparation Seminar
| African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Open to a general or national audience | | | The DC office is involved in the Urban Alliance internship program. Through this program, we have two DC public high school interns each year, and we give them real-life work experience in a professional environment. Working with outreach programs, the firm also hires three college students who work as summer file clerks. Clerks have been hired through a number of organizations, including I Have A Dream Foundation, Capital Area WAVE-Reach Program (Work, Achievement, Values & Education), the DC Chamber of Commerce, the DC Department of Employment Youth Services and the Frederick Douglass Foundation. Our New York office participates in the Thurgood Marshall Summer Law Internship Program, which is sponsored by the New York City Bar Association. This program gives New York City high school students, who are excelling academically, the opportunity to work in a legal environment and learn about the profession. The office also has hired a college graduate through Job Path, which helps place people with developmental disabilities in mainstream jobs. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Restricted to an institution, community or defined audience | | State : DE (1) | | | Potter Anderson supports Widener University School of Law's Jurist Academy, a diversity summer orientation program aimed at giving college students a
sense of what law school is like and career opportunities in the legal field. As part of the Jurist Academy program, the firm hosted a meeting in the office at
which Josh Martin presided and shared remarks about his career and challenges he encountered. A second minority partner participated in a panel discussion
held on Widener's campus. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Restricted to an institution, community or defined audience | | State : FL (2) | | | In 2004, we established the Carlton Fields Diversity Fellowship Program at Stetson University College of Law. Recognizing the importance of providing access to the practice of law within a large firm environment for students who may have experienced socioeconomic or cultural barriers to legal education, we created the Diversity Fellowship Program at Stetson University College of Law. The program is designed to attract students who have experienced barriers during their pursuit of a legal education and are interested in serving as a fellow with Carlton Fields.
The expectation will be that, throughout the course of a semester, the student will spend approximately 200 hours working on various legal projects under the guidance of attorneys. It is anticipated that roughly half of that work will be on legal projects for pro bono clients of the firm. The remaining work will be performed for other firm clients. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Open to a general or national audience | | | Just The Beginning Foundation: Holland & Knight is also a sponsor of Just The Beginning
Foundation, a nationwide, multi-racial, non-profit organization composed of lawyers, judges and other citizens. The Foundation is dedicated to developing
and nurturing interest in the law among young people from racial and other groups under-represented in the legal profession, and supporting their continued
advancement. The Foundation's long-term goal is to increase racial diversity in the legal profession and on the bench. From its inception, the Foundation has
worked to preserve the rich stories of lawyers and judges of color. As the Foundation evolved, the lessons learned from these trailblazers inspired it to focus its
efforts on developing programs that would open up the pipeline of opportunity for young persons from diverse backgrounds. The Foundation's programs focus
on enabling these youth to embark on successful careers in the legal profession. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Open to a general or national audience | | State : GA (10) | | | Baker Donelson is committed to fostering an inclusive environment where the individual differences among us are understood, respected and appreciated, recognized as sources of strength of the Firm, and valued as qualities that enrich the environment in which we work. With this in mind, Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC will award three (3) scholarships to diverse law students this year. Each recipient will be awarded $10,000 which will be paid during the student's third year of law school to help defray the cost of law school tuition and related expenses. Additionally, recipients will be awarded a salaried 2L Summer Associate position in one of our following offices: Birmingham, AL; Atlanta, GA; Baton Rouge, New Orleans, LA; Jackson, MS; or Chattanooga, Johnson City, Knoxville, Memphis, Nashville, TN. The recipients' office preferences will be taken into consideration, but final assignment will be according to the Firm's needs. The recipients may split their summers with other law firms; however, they are required to work during the period that the other Summer Associates in that Baker Donelson office are working. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Open to a general or national audience | | | Our inspirational, nationally-recognized Booker T. Washington Freedom Writers program in Atlanta is a writing and mentoring program that matches minority
students with attorneys and staff who make a four-year commitment to mentor the same students from the beginning of ninth grade through high school
graduation. Co-managing partners, department chairs, secretaries and paralegals work side-by-side on this signature project, which is in its third year. We
are now making plans to expand the program to other offices. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Open to a general or national audience | | | The Everybody Wins! Power Lunch program is a lunchtime literacy and mentoring program that brings business volunteers into at-risk elementary schools for one-on-one read aloud sessions with students. On the same day each week, business volunteers forgo their lunch breaks to travel to an adopted elementary school for one hour of one-on-one reading with an at-risk student. For the one hour session, reading pairs promote both the skills and love of reading by reading aloud to each other, sharing favorite stories and talking about books. Unlike many literacy programs, Power Lunch offers a one-on-one mentoring component, cultivating a rare rapport that transcends generations and socio-economic classes. Volunteers commit to Power Lunch and their student for one year and are encouraged to continue that mentoring relationship, often following that student throughout their elementary years. Evaluations show that Power Lunch students improve reading skills and score higher on standardized tests. | | Open to a general or national audience | | | The Gate City Bar Association’s Justice Robert Benham Law Camp is held at Georgia State University College of Law. The camp is designed to expose minority high school students in the Atlanta area to the field of law. The camp is three weeks that includes 2 weeks of classroom instruction (critical thinking, intro to law, and mock trial) and field trips. The third week includes internships with practitioners in the Atlanta area. | African American/Black | Restricted to an institution, community or defined audience | | | The Educational Talent Search Program identifies and assists 600 middle and high school level students (from disadvantaged backgrounds and attending selected target schools in the DeKalb County, GA Public School System) who have the potential to succeed in higher education. The program provides academic, career, financial, and personal counseling to eligible student participants and their parents. | African American/Black | Restricted to an institution, community or defined audience | | | The Job Shadow Program is a year-round initiative that allows young people to get an up-close look at the business community by shadowing "career mentors" in their place of work. Sutherland joined the program in 2006 and hosted twenty students from Therrell High School in Atlanta, Georgia. Students heard presentations from Sutherland attorneys, directors and other employees before paring up with volunteer "career mentors" for the day. The program ended with remarks from the students about their key learnings from the day. | African American/Black | Open to a general or national audience | | | King & Spalding lawyers work directly with the Gate City Bar Association (Georgia's oldest African-American bar association) sponsoring the Justice Benham Law Camp for Atlanta area high school students. The two-week program consists of critical thinking and legal skills training and culminates in a mock-trial competition. The participants then go on to complete one-week internships in Atlanta law firms, including King & Spalding. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Open to a general or national audience | | | To strengthen the diversity pipeline, we are a Leadership Firm with PALS (Practicing Attorneys for Law Students) in NY, both financially and through attorney mentoring efforts, for students in NY area law schools. For 25 years PALS has enhanced the skills and careers of minority law students and early career attorneys. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Restricted to an institution, community or defined audience | | | Sutherland Scholars is a summer program offered at no cost to students from historically black colleges and universities to ensure the success of minority students in law school. The program was launched in Atlanta in 2005 and expanded to Washington, DC in 2006 and helps demystify law school by exposing students to everything they'll need to be successful in that first challenging year.
Sutherland attorneys and other legal professionals lead the intensive four-hour classes including "Overview of the Law School Curriculum", "Factors For Success" "How to Prepare for Class", "How to Brief a Case", "How to Form Effective Study Groups", "Introduction to the Socratic Method", "Legal Research Techniques", "How to Prepare for Law School Exams", "How to Write Final Exams", "Opportunities to Excel: Law Review, Moot Court, Mock Trials and Clinical Programs" and "Preparing for Life After Law School". | African American/Black | Restricted to an institution, community or defined audience | | | Sutherland recognizes the importance of diversity efforts along the pipeline. In 2005, the firm launched the Sutherland Scholars program, an initiative aimed
at increasing diversity within the legal community. This summer program is offered to students from historically underrepresented backgrounds at no cost.
Sutherland attorneys and other legal professionals lead intensive introductory legal classes. Students draft study outlines, brief cases and take a final exam.
The program includes follow-up with graduates to help track their progress and recruit them to return as Summer Associates. Since the inaugural class of
2005, almost 130 students have graduated from the program. Launched in Atlanta, the program has since been expanded to Washington, D.C., with plans to
expand to New York. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Open to a general or national audience | | State : HI (1) | | | Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law, at the William S. Richardson School of Law, provides test preparation classes to aspiring law school applicants who have an interest in:
Native Hawaiian Rights,
Native Hawaiian Law, or
Improving the conditions of Native Hawaiians.
This program has been helpful to Native Hawaiian law school applicants in their efforts to apply to law school. The Native Hawaiian community has been identified as both an under-served and under-represented community in the legal profession.
Ka Huli Ao also provides support to student-led efforts that places law students in the classroom of predominantly-Native Hawaiian schools such as Kula Kaiapuni o 'Anuenue, a Hawaiian-language immersion school located in Palolo valley on the island of O'ahu. This particular program has taken law students into the immersion school classroom as well as bringing those students to the law school and the state judiciary history center.
| Native American | Open to a general or national audience | | State : IA (3) | | | The Briar Cliff University TRIO Upward Bound program emphasizes quality education for its low-income, first-generation students to assist them in completing a program of secondary education and entering and succeeding in a program of post-secondary education.
The Briar Cliff TRIO Upward Bound program is committed to providing students access to resources in order to broaden intellectual backgrounds, enhance career development, and to grow in self-awareness and in relationships with others through service and caring.
| African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Restricted to an institution, community or defined audience | | | Purpose of the Conference:
To educate prospective Asian Pacific American law students about applying to law school, preparing for the Law School Admissions Test, financing legal education, succeeding in law school, and passing the bar examination through public discussion groups, forums, panels, lectures, workshops and otherwise;
To educate the community about important issues related to the legal profession;
To raise awareness of minority and diversity issues related to Asian Pacific Americans in and out of law school and the legal community;
To connect prospective Asian Pacific American law students with other prospective and current law students, attorneys, educators, and judges to foster professional mentorship and networking opportunities.
| African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Open to a general or national audience | | | The Hubbard Program is designed to introduce participants to the skills needed to successfully navigate the academic challenges of law school. Participants will also gain exposure to the professional opportunities that are available to those who earn a law degree. The program emphasizes the skills of reading, writing, research capability, and critical thinking. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Open to a general or national audience | | State : IL (19) | | | LegalTrek is a college summer program designed to provide a hands-on, comprehensive overview of the legal profession. LegalTrek’s mission is to diversify the legal profession by encouraging and supporting college students from historically underrepresented groups to attend law school. LegalTrek scholars participate in a weekly legal seminar for 10 weeks from June through August. Students will receive classroom instruction as well as visit local courts, law firms and participate in a variety of legal exercises. Students are linked with mentorship opportunities as well as LSAT and law school preparatory materials. The course content helps students understand the role of the law and lawyers in our society, learn about the different kinds of lawyers and practice areas and contexts, and develop successful strategies for applying to law school. Students participate in weekly exercises and discussion, complete assigned readings and submit response papers and journals. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Restricted to an institution, community or defined audience | | | LegalTrek is a college summer program designed to provide a hands-on, comprehensive overview of the legal profession. LegalTrek’s mission is to diversify the legal profession by encouraging and supporting college students from historically underrepresented groups to attend law school. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Restricted to an institution, community or defined audience | | | NGE's participation in the Cristo Rey Work/Study program underscores the firm's diversity and community outreach efforts. Cristo Rey is a private, college
prep high school with a largely Latino/Latina student body for immigrant families of Chicago's near southwest side. The Work/Study Program provides
Cristo Rey students to become acclimated to a business environment and to better understand the rigors and responsibilities of holding a job, while still
attending school and holding a full academic schedule | Latino | Restricted to an institution, community or defined audience | | | Scholarship Chicago's High 5 campaign is dedicated to securing a consistent source of support for its College Bound students. The campaign allows companies a number of wonderful opportunities. By providing financial support and summer internships to College Bound students, High 5 Partners not only play a major role in shaping an educated workforce, they also give themselves direct access to a talented and diverse pool of future employees.
One of the largest 501(c)(3) registered scholarship organizations in the city, Scholarship Chicago has provided services for over 1200 talented, high-need youth since 1996. Taking a comprehensive approach to scholarships, Scholarship Chicago provides much more than financial aid. Each student enrolled in their College Bound program receives a year of college preparatory programming, specialized mentoring, summer internship opportunities and access to numerous career networking events. | | Open to a general or national audience | | | The Hispanic Lawyers Association JD Mentor Program is designed to assist Hispanic college and law students in developing their educational and professional interest in law. The program is designed so that a lawyer, law student and college student are placed in a mentor group.
This arrangement allows the attorney to serve as the main mentor, but also allows the college student to have access to a current law student, one who most likely to be more recently familiar with the law school application process and current experiences in law school. | Latino | Open to a general or national audience | | | Just the Beginning Foundation(JTBF)is a not-for-profit service organization dedicated to diversifying the legal field, and honoring the legacy of African-Americans in the federal judiciary. In partnership with bar associations, JTBF hosts national conferences biennially that bring together judges, lawyers, and law students to commemorate the integration of the federal judiciary. JTBF is also involved in several educational projects, including a week-long Summer Legal Institute designed to introduce underserved high school students to the legal system, expose them to careers in the law, and provide them with practical tools for achieving their goals.
During the school year, JTBF hosts an Extern Program, placing high school seniors in the chambers of federal and state court judges. JTBF recently launched a national Judicial Externship/Clerkship Program for second and third-year law students who desire to work with judges to enhance their legal research, writing, and analytical skills. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Open to a general or national audience | | | As a global firm, Baker & McKenzie is committed to diversity and its attorneys understand that access to quality education is a right everyone deserves. Our
Firm has a solid, unwavering commitment to pro bono and community service work. Just a few of our efforts to reach out to students include: The Law Minority
Access Program (LawMAP)-In conjunction with the University of Illinois, Baker & McKenzie has been part of an innovative program called LawMAP. Launched
in 1990, LawMAP encourages promising minority undergraduate students to consider a legal career. LawMAP scholars from the University of Illinois are
provided four-week externships at various law firms. As part of this program, Baker & McKenzie hosts two LawMAP scholars each year during the summer.
Many LawMAP scholars have gone on to earn their law degrees; LINK Unlimited-Baker & McKenzie attorneys are actively involved in LINK Unlimited, one of
the oldest scholarship and mentoring organizations serving economically-disadvantaged African-American youth. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Restricted to an institution, community or defined audience | | | Each year, McAndrews offers a $5,000 fellowship and a paid summer clerkship to a qualified first-year law student at an ABA-accredited law school who has a diverse background, possesses a degree in science or engineering, and is committed to pursuing a career in patent law in Chicago. As a summer associate, the Diversity Fellow will gain experience in a wide range of intellectual property law and will be eligible to receive an offer to return for a second summer. To facilitate the Diversity Fellow’s professional growth and learning, a member of the McAndrews Diversity Committee will serve as a mentor and resource.
As a summer associate at the McAndrews office in Chicago, the Diversity Fellow will gain experience in a wide range of intellectual property law and will be eligible to receive an offer
to return for a second summer. To facilitate the Diversity Fellow’s professional growth and learning, a member of the McAndrews Diversity Committee will serve as a mentor and
resource. given the collegial culture at McAndrews, the Diversity Fellow will also establish rewarding relationships with other attorneys. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Open to a general or national audience | | | The Los Angeles office is supporting a charter high school that serves a predominantly Hispanic community. Attorneys are helping in fundraising efforts and in developing a mentoring program for students, who are being introduced to career opportunities in L.A.'s financial industries. | Latino | Restricted to an institution, community or defined audience | | | Kirkland participates in a variety of pipeline programs. One such program is the Posse Foundation, an organization that identifies, recruits and trains student leaders from urban public high schools to form multicultural teams alled "posses." These teams participate in an eight-month pre-collegiate training program to prepare for enrollment at top-tier universities nationwide and to help promote cross-cultural communication on campus. We sponsor a variety of programming through the Posse Foundation including an interview workshop at which our attorneys provide resume feedback and interview coaching for students. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Open to a general or national audience | | | The PreLaw Undergraduate Scholars (PLUS) program brings approximately 25 disadvantaged students from across the country together for a four week period. During those four weeks, the students get a taste of what it is like to be a law student, as well as what it is that those in the legal profession actually do.
These students take substantive law school courses, visit lawyers who practice in varied areas of the law and spend time in state and federal court talking to legal professionals and observing their work and the legal environment. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Open to a general or national audience | | | DLA Piper has partnered with the Ron Brown Scholars (RBS) program to provide internship opportunities for RBS students each year in DLA Piper offices
across the U.S. Named in honor of the late Commerce Secretary, RBS is an 11-year-old program that awards scholarships to and mentors some of the
brightest African American high school seniors across the country. The program selects 20 students who demonstrate financial need, social commitment, and
leadership potential. Since its inception, the program has provided 221 four-year scholarships. Through the RBS and DLA Piper partnership, the firm invests in
the pipeline of college-age and early law school African American prospects so that the pool of diverse candidates is increased significantly. RBS students who
intern at DLA Piper are college graduates who spend the year or months prior to their first year of law school gaining practical and educational experience at
the firm. DLA Piper is the exclusive law firm partner of RBS. | African American/Black | Restricted to an institution, community or defined audience | | | Goldberg Kohn is committed to ongoing support of economically disadvantaged students through its deep involvement in Scholarship Chicago, a foundation that provides scholarships to colleges of the students' choice, along with mentoring and summer internships. These components provide the students with tools not only to go to college, but to graduate and become successful in their chosen career. Nearly 90% of the Scholarship Chicago scholars are either African-American or Hispanic. The Firm has been a long-time supporter of Scholarship Chicago. As part of the firm's desire to build a pipeline of diverse lawyers, the firm regularly hires summer interns from Scholarship Chicago to provide opportunities to a diverse group of college students to learn about the legal profession and to develop skills that will assist them in law school. In 2005, the firm was Chicago's first law firm to commit to becoming a High 5 Sponsor of Scholarship Chicago. As part of this sponsorship, Goldberg Kohn will donate $55,000 over a five-year period that will assist five underprivileged Chicago high school juniors in pursuing their dreams of going to and graduating from college. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Open to a general or national audience | | | Sidley Prelaw Scholars will be college juniors and seniors who demonstrate academic promise but who have limited financial resources that might prevent them from enrolling in an LSAT preparation course. Each Sidley Prelaw Scholar will receive an initial award in the amount of $2,500 to cover tuition for a commercial LSAT preparation course, registration for the LSAT and the Law School Data Assembly Service (LSDAS), and application fees for up to five accredited law schools.
Upon documented timely completion of both the LSAT preparation course and the required number of law school applications, each Sidley Prelaw Scholar will receive an additional scholarship award in the amount of $2,500 during his or her last year of college. Sidley Prelaw Scholars will also receive coaching on how to present a compelling law school application. During the summer before law school matriculation, Sidley Prelaw Scholars will participate in a brief seminar on the structure of the American legal system and an introduction to the substance of the required first-year common law courses. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Open to a general or national audience | | | The Atlanta office participates in the Spelman College Internship Program. The program provides college students who are genuinely interested in attending
law school with the opportunity to gain practical experience working at a law firm. This program is a paid internship which consists of three components:
substantive work, training, and practical legal activities. It is structured to be informative, realistic, and collegial. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Restricted to an institution, community or defined audience | | | The American Bar Foundation sponsors a program of summer research fellowships to interest undergraduate students from diverse backgrounds in pursuing graduate study in the social sciences. The summer program is designed to introduce students to the rewards and demands of a research-oriented career in the field of law and social science. The program is supported in part by the Kenneth F. and Harle G. Montgomery Foundation and the Solon E. Summerfield Foundation.
Located in Chicago, Illinois, the American Bar Foundation is an independent nonprofit research institute dedicated to the study of law, legal institutions, and legal processes. The Foundation conducts empirically based research on a broad range of civil and criminal justice issues.
Current research areas include: professionalism and the transformation of the legal profession in the United States and abroad, the dynamics of employment discrimination disputes, the impact of civil rights law on the economic progress of minorities, jury decision making, public interest lawyering and social reform, historical analyses of labor, group libel, and regulatory law, and the role of law in racial relations, postcolonial settings, and globalization. The Foundation's research is conducted by a multidisciplinary resident research faculty with academic training in law, sociology, psychology, political science, economics, history, and anthropology. Many ABF Research Professors hold joint appointments at Chicago-area universities. Recognized as a major institution in the field of law and social science, the Foundation offers a rich environment to students considering an academic or research career.
ELIGIBILITY
Eligible are American citizens and lawful permanent residents including, but not limited to, persons who are African American, Hispanic/Latino, Native American, or Puerto Rican, as well as other individuals who will add diversity to the field of law and social science. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Open to a general or national audience | | | The Louise Project was developed to provide service opportunities for the DePaul University College of Law community, including faculty, staff, students and alumna.
There are two components: (1) law faculty workshops in which faculty deliver lectures to Jones students at either the law school or the high school eight times a semester; and (2) a tutoring/mentoring program identifying specific substantive areas of need as well as individuals requesting designated mentors.
This program engages approximately 50 law students each semester. Jones High School students have the experience of attending law school lectures as well as developing relationships with law students and others who volunteer to tutor/mentor. At the end of each year a state or federal judge invites the participants to a courtroom experience and reception. Jones High School is an economically and racially diverse school in the DePaul Law School neighborhood. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Restricted to an institution, community or defined audience | | | The National Association for Urban Debate Leagues creates and supports Urban Debate Leagues (UDLs), which provide academic debate opportunities primarily for urban students of color. Academic debate is one of the most effective activities for preparing students of color for college, law school, and the legal profession. Over 40,000 students from 500 schools in 24 cities across the country have participated in urban debate – in districts where 87% of students are minorities. These students have built up skills, interest, and connections through debate that guide them to the legal profession.
Urban debate is a highly-effective program for diversifying the pipeline to the legal profession. Close to 100% of urban debaters graduate from high school, and over 75% go on to college, thus creating a dramatically larger pool of diversity candidates. Debaters spend hundreds of hours conducting in-depth research (often in law reviews), writing and thinking critically on important policy and legal issues, and working in teams. All of these skills are applicable to the becoming a successful lawyer and many former debaters have entered the legal profession. Please contact us for information about a UDL in your local area. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Restricted to an institution, community or defined audience | | | The Vedder Price Diversity Scholarship includes a $5,000 monetary award for law school related expenses each year that the recipient remains in good academic standing and is attending one of the selected Illinois law schools, as well as a Summer Associate position in our Summer Program after his/her first year of law school. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Open to a general or national audience | | State : KS (1) | | | Grow Your Own Lawyer (GYOL) is a program for women and minority students who are in their junior and senior years of high school. The program runs from January through May. Students submit applications and are accepted through an interview process. Each student is matched with an attorney who serves as a mentor and meetings are held between these two individuals at least three times during the year.
In addition, education programs are held twice a month to expose students to different areas of law and legal practice. Past events have included tours of the Kansas law schools, a visit to the Brown vs. Board of Education national historic site, tours of a federal court, district court and a juvenile court. A tour of the District Attorney's Office and the Sedgwick County Jail. Lunch with Kansas Supreme Court Justices and Kansas Appellate Court Judges.
The group has also been addressed by lawyers on their practice including a minority lawyer who has his own firm. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Open to a general or national audience | | State : KY (5) | | | One-day program held on a Saturday in the fall for candidates considering law school. College students in any year and returning students welcome. Program includes admissions advice, free LSAT preparation by Kaplan Educational Center, faculty and alumni panels | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Open to a general or national audience | | | The Northern Kentucky University (NKU) Chase Diversity Day is designed for prospective law students to learn about our community.
The program provides an opportunity for others to hear from and speak to faculty, students, and professionals that have made a commitment to diversity in the legal profession.
| African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Open to a general or national audience | | | Designed to add more minority representation to the Kentucky Bar. Candidates selected on the basis of minority status, educational disadvantage and/or low-income status. Each KY state law school selects five KY resident entering law students to participate. Includes 10-day summer institute in preparation for law school, mentor program with local attorneys and $5,000 annual stipends for all 3 years of law school. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Restricted to an institution, community or defined audience | | | Candidates considering a future in law are invited to the University of Kentucky College of Law to spend a day in class with a student mentor. Includes a lunch panel with College of Law faculty, alumni and administrators. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Open to a general or national audience | | | Program designed to lessen the traditional under-representation of economically disadvantaged rural, urban and minority communities within the legal profession in Kentucky, with special initiatives targeted at high school and college students living in Kentucky's economically disadvantaged urban and rural communities. Includes scholarships for selected law student ambassadors from targeted communities. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Restricted to an institution, community or defined audience | | State : LA (1) | | | Most recently, the firm hosted an eighth grade "Power Ties" visit for students to witness the daily operations of a law firm and were exposed to the
varying careers that are available within a law office. Presentations were made by the firm's Diversity Committee Chairwoman and several of the firm's diverse
attorneys. Also included were presentations by the firm's legal recruiting manager, the training administrator and desktop support specialist to expose the
students to a variety of careers. These visits, mentoring, and career awareness programs are held throughout the firm to provide students with exposure to
professionals from various occupations and demonstrate career paths available for them. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Restricted to an institution, community or defined audience | | State : MA (6) | | | In the summer of 2007, Mintz Levin was one of five firms participating in a pilot program for first year law students through the Boston Lawyers Group. The 1L Diversity Clerkship Program supports the BLG's mission to create a pipeline for diverse legal talent in Boston. The clerks spent the first five weeks of their ten-week program working in a participating firm and the second five weeks working with a BLG corporate partner or government agency. We are participating in
this program during the summer of 2008 as well. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Restricted to an institution, community or defined audience | | | In 1999, the Boston Bar Association (BBA)launched the Children's Outreach Initiative, currently known as the Children and Youth Outreach Project. This initiative promotes volunteerism and outreach by lawyers with students in the Boston Public Schools, of which 85% are people of color. Participation takes several forms including more than ten mentoring, tutoring, and career-related programs.
For example, the BBA Summer Jobs Program matches teens from Boston Schools with Boston law firms and law offices for eight week paid summer internships. The Summer Jobs Program, has introduced more than 200 young people to Boston's legal community while teaching them valuable professional skills.
Recently, the BBA Children and Youth Outreach Project and BBA Diversity Committee have begun collaborating on ways to utilize the BBA's youth outreach efforts to expand the diversity pipeline by exposing children and young people of color to the legal profession with hopes that they will pursue a legal career. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Open to a general or national audience | | | The Charles Hamilton Houston Enrichment Program (CHHEP)is named for Charles Hamilton Houston (1895-1950) who was the first General Counsel of the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund, and a former Dean of Howard University Law School. Its purpose is to provide first year students with an informal forum to discuss issues of race and ethnicity within the New England School of Law community. Participation in the program is voluntary and is open to all first year students.
The major goal of CHHEP is to create a fellowship group that shares both a common concern about racial discrimination and a sense of celebration of NESL's diversity. The program was established in 1990 to help reduce the isolation often felt by students of color, to address racial bias, and to promote diversity of the student body.
A central feature of the program will be self-directed, student/faculty discussion group that will meet throughout the year. The majority of the topics and frequency of the meetings will be determined by the group. We will also sponsor several social events and at every CHHEP gathering we will reserve time for discussion of first year issues. | African American/Black | Open to a general or national audience | | | In 2005, Fish & Richardson established the 1L Diversity Fellowship Program as a key component of the firm’s ongoing initiative to recruit, retain, and advance attorneys who will contribute to the diversity of the firm’s practice and of the legal profession.
The program annually provides fellowships to diverse first-year law students. Each selected student receives a $5,000 scholarship, year-long mentoring by members of the firm, and a paid summer associate position in the domestic office of the student's choice.
For Fish & Richardson, diversity is a long-term commitment and an integral part of who we are as a firm.
| African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Open to a general or national audience | | | Initiation of and continued participation in the Boston Lawyers Group (BLG) and the Lawyers Collaborative for Diversity (LCD) based in Hartford, Conn.,
both of which work toward advancing the recruitment and retention of attorneys of color. We also undertake numerous programs geared toward minority
law students, including sponsoring an internship for a Howard University School of Law student in our D.C. office, mentoring of minority law students
and substantive programs around the practice of law. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Restricted to an institution, community or defined audience | | | A TRIO/Student Support Services program at Mt. Wachusett Community College focused on working with students from first generation, low income backgrounds and students with disabilities to help them complete their Associates degree and to transfer to baccalaureate programs. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Restricted to an institution, community or defined audience | | State : MD (1) | | | This program was created by Street Law and the Association of Corporate Counsel as one way to address the lack of diversity within the legal profession¿by encouraging students of color to extend their educations and consider a career in the law. In its most common form, volunteers from a corporate legal department pair with local, diverse high schools and work with their law classes.
Participating lawyers usually make a series of visits to the class(es) during the course, serving as a classroom resource and co-teaching about various civil law topics. The volunteers also host a conference for the students, where they participate in workshops focusing on the things they studied in class, frequently as role-playing type activities, including mock trials, mock mediations, or mock negotiations.
The conference usually includes a career fair. The program also includes opportunities for job shadowing, career mentoring or college scholarships and is currently being implemented in twelve sites across the United States. Contact Street Law to learn the location of these sites. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Open to a general or national audience | | State : MI (2) | | | The Cooley Collaboration for Certainty of Opportunity (CCCO) is a pilot program focused on elementary and secondary school students in the Pontiac school system, which uses small and large-group mentoring programs involving both students and their parents to build character, increase personal and academic success, improve child welfare, reduce teen pregnancy, strengthen families, prevent substance abuse, and improve access to post-secondary education by providing transitional support to college-bound students.
One of the highlights of the Collaborative is "Success on Saturdays" held every other Saturday at a Pontiac high school. The program is free for all Pontiac youth and focuses on personal and academic success. Success on Saturdays has featured programs on getting organized, test taking strategies, study habits, building character, avoiding destructive influences, kid crime, constitutional rights in the public schools, gangs and violence and keys to success. | | Open to a general or national audience | | | The Thomas M. Cooley School of Law Admissions Office initiates recruitment activities focused on minority areas in the country, and international locations. This office also provides resources for students and educators on who the major players are in the minority recruitment area.
In addition, the Career Services office at the Thomas M. Cooley School of Law works with various Michigan and non-Michigan firms and organizations to publicize their recruitment events aimed at minority law students.
The Student Services office organizes campus programs to promote diversity in and after law school, with a focus on minority hiring trends. Other programs include minority job panels and the provision of minority scholarships.
Finally, the Academic Resource Center is open to all students, and our minority students take advantage of it regarding tutoring and other academic assistance needs. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Open to a general or national audience | | State : MN (5) | | | Please check the website for application dates. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. The Fellowship application is available for download.
Three fellowships – one each in Denver, Minneapolis and Seattle – will be awarded. Each fellowship recipient will be a first-year law student of a diverse background who has a record of academic achievement and commitment to promoting diversity. Each recipient will work as a Dorsey summer associate and, at the end of the summer, will receive $10,000 toward law school tuition and expenses during the school year.
“Law students who work with us each summer bring tremendous energy and enthusiasm to Dorsey, and we all benefit from their fresh ideas and perspectives,” said Marianne Short, Dorsey managing partner. “We are proud to support talented law students who believe in diversity as strongly as we do.”
The Dorsey & Whitney Diversity Fellowship is a natural extension of the firm’s commitment to diversity. Dorsey is resolved to attract, recruit, retain and advance attorneys from diverse backgrounds. Dorsey supports numerous organizations that promote diversity in the legal community, including the Human Rights Campaign and the Minority Corporate Counsel Association. The firm actively recruits from minority job fairs each fall and has hosted minority job fairs. In addition, the firm encourages attorneys to become involved in internal networking and affinity groups as well as local minority bar associations. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Open to a general or national audience | | | Faegre & Benson LLP is pleased to announce that it is now accepting applications for its 2009 diversity scholarship program, an initiative aimed at encouraging and supporting diversity in the legal profession.
Each year, Faegre & Benson offers two $12,000 scholarships to help students pay for their final years of law school. Recipients will also work as summer associates at one of the firm's four U.S. offices between their first and second years of law school.
Applicants must be enrolled full-time at an accredited law school in the United States, with an anticipated graduation date in the spring of 2011. Scholarship recipients will receive $6,000 for their second year of law school and an additional $6,000 for their third year. Applications are due January 9, 2009.
A key element of the diversity scholarship program is a comprehensive mentorship designed to help recipients transition from student to law firm associate. Each recipient will be matched with a Faegre & Benson lawyer, who will start mentoring him or her even before the summer begins. Mentors will help students acclimate both to the firm and to the legal community at large.
Scholarship recipients will be chosen partly on the basis of a short essay that explores how diversity has influenced their lives and how it impacts the legal profession. | African American/Black; Asian American; Latino; Native American | Open to a general or national audience |
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