UC Irvine, School of Law announced on Monday that next year’s incoming class will, for all three years, receive a scholarship worth fifty percent of their tuition. Funded by private donations, these scholarships will be given to students arriving in August 2010. The offering of generous scholarships for the second class follows upon last [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 1, 2009
For months now, Biglaw firms have been offering voluntary, or imposing involuntary, deferral schemes on incoming associates. Now a law school had jumped on the bandwagon. The University of Miami School of Law is asking incoming 1L students invited to start in the Fall to defer their entry into the law school until Fall 2010. Students who [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Most students receiving financial aid from Harvard Law School are required to work for 10 weeks over the summer, the traditional length of a major law firm summer program. But this year, many students have seen their summer jobs reduced, or cut entirely, by law firms. Initially, the school said these students would still need to [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 28, 2009
Torrance, California-based personal injury law firm AgnewBrusavich has awarded 27 scholarships to seniors from 16 local high schools. The firm has awarded 355 such scholarships in the last 15 years, with a total value of $106,000. The scholarships are awarded to community college students who intend to transfer to a four-year university. They pay for tuition, books [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 27, 2009
The Young Lawyers Division of the Philadelphia Bar Association will award its Diversity Scholarships to five local law students at its annual Diversity Happy Hour on June 16th. Those receiving the scholarships are: Priya DeSouza of Temple’s Beasley School of Law, Eartha Johnson of Drexel University Earle Mack School of Law, Samea Lee of Temple’s Beasley [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 8, 2009
The University of Alabama School of Law will allow a select group of Honors College students to apply without providing results from the Law School Admissions Test. The Tuscaloosa-based law school says it is “streamlining” the admissions process for the Alabama Honors College students. To be eligible, the students must be Alabama residents and have an undergraduate [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, March 5, 2009
Jeremy D. Protas, an attorney with the intellectual property law firm of Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP, has announced the establishment of a patent law scholarship specifically for LGBT (“lesbian, gay, bisexual, & transgender”) law students intending to pursue careers in the field of patent law. Candidates must be second-year students for the 2009-2010 academic year [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, December 27, 2008
A new law school is opening at the University of California Irvine next fall. And it’s waiving tuition for three years to lure top applicants: The financial carrot is part of an ambitious strategy by Erwin Chemerinsky, a renowned constitutional law scholar and dean of the new school… to attract Ivy League-caliber students to the first [...]
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