Law firm Steptoe & Johnson launches pre-law fellowship to improve pipeline to the legal profession
REUTERS — Steptoe & Johnson is the latest law firm to expand its diversity efforts to target aspiring lawyers before they ever set foot on a law school campus. The firm’s new Steptoe Pre-Law Fellowship, launched this month, brings on three recent college graduates with an interest in law as full-time employees for two years, letting them…
Read More about Law firm Steptoe & Johnson launches pre-law fellowship to improve pipeline to the legal professionA look at University at Buffalo Law’s Discover Law Undergraduate Scholars Program for underrepresented students
UBNOW — Johnniel Morales has a clear, powerful statement about how UB’s Discover Law Undergraduate Scholars Program, an immersive summer program for promising underrepresented students, changed his life. It’s about “admiring the value of my potential and the diversity that surrounds me as an opportunity to reflect and rebuild over the things that were seen as…
Read More about A look at University at Buffalo Law’s Discover Law Undergraduate Scholars Program for underrepresented studentsDuke Law Tech Lab supports new legal technology companies focused on access to justice
DUKE LAW — Four early-stage legal technology companies with a core mission of expanding access to legal services make up the new cohort of Duke Law Tech Lab’s summer 2021 pre-accelerator program.
Read More about Duke Law Tech Lab supports new legal technology companies focused on access to justiceFordham Law launches Realizing Excellence and Access in the Law (REAL) program
FORDHAM LAW NEWSFordham Law School announced today that its Realizing Excellence and Access in the Law (REAL) program launched this week when program participants were welcomed to campus. The program aims to expand opportunities for first-year law students from historically underrepresented backgrounds including underrepresented racial, ethnic, geographic, socioeconomic, LGBTQ, and first-generation college backgrounds.
Read More about Fordham Law launches Realizing Excellence and Access in the Law (REAL) programRutgers Law hosts two-week pre-law academy for high school students
RUTGERS LAW SCHOOL — While some high school students have spent their summer by the pool, a group of ambitious would-be law students learned the virtues of a career in law through a new Rutgers summer academy offered by the Office of Summer and Winter Sessions at Rutgers-New Brunswick. Rutgers Law School led the two-week, Pre-College…
Read More about Rutgers Law hosts two-week pre-law academy for high school studentsSouthern Illinois University Law Veterans Assistance Clinic receives grant from Illinois Equal Justice Foundation
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY — Military veterans in the region needing help with Veterans Affairs benefit appeals and discharge upgrades can continue to look to Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s School of Law for assistance.
Read More about Southern Illinois University Law Veterans Assistance Clinic receives grant from Illinois Equal Justice FoundationUniversity of St. Thomas Law Mentor Externship Program helps graduates start legal careers
UNIVERSITY OF ST. THOMAS — These all come together in the school’s award-winning Mentor Externship Program, through which each St. Thomas Law student is paired with a lawyer or judge each year of law school to help them gain work experience, develop professional connections and navigate the legal field. “What we aim to do in the program…
Read More about University of St. Thomas Law Mentor Externship Program helps graduates start legal careersWillamette Law partners with Western Oregon University on direct admission program
WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY — This program admits WOU undergraduate students and alumni who meet certain academic credentials to Willamette Law and gives each student a $10,000 scholarship, renewable each year the student is enrolled at Willamette Law and remains in good standing.
Read More about Willamette Law partners with Western Oregon University on direct admission programRoger Williams Law to require a course focused on the impact of race on the development of American law
REUTERS — Roger Williams University School of Law recently joined a handful of law schools across the country that now require a course focused on the impact of race in the development of American law.
Read More about Roger Williams Law to require a course focused on the impact of race on the development of American lawUniversity of Akron Law offers free public course on law and inequality in the US
UNIVERSITY OF AKRON — Back by popular demand, The University of Akron School of Law will offer a free 12-week, live online course this fall designed as an introduction to the impact of the law on equality in America. When first offered in the fall of 2020, the course attracted more than 5,000 registrants from across…
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