JD Journal » scholarships

Morning Roundup

joshua — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:29:31 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Monday, October 25th. Here’s a quick look back at Friday’s stories.

According to a new study conducted by the University of Maine Center, a relatively high percentage of elderly residents of Maine will require legal intervention at some point in their lives….

A survey by law school admissions consulting firm Veritas Prep showed 81% of law school applicants would still apply even if a significant number of graduates were unable to find jobs in their desired field…

The University of California, Irvine School of Law will provide scholarships of at least one-third of tuition to each member of its next class of students…

John Frankenheimer of Loeb & Loeb will be stepping down as the firm’s co-chair…

Lawyers for SAP AG, a German software company, requested that a federal judge issue a gag order during a forthcoming trial for an intellectual property theft case…

Sam Baxter of McKool Smith has been named by The Best Lawyers in America the 2011 Dallas Intellectual Property “Lawyer of the Year…

Whistle-blower website Wikileaks published classified documents related to the Iraqi war last Friday…

UC Irvine School of Law to Again Offer Tuition Help

joshua — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 16:18:49 +0000

The University of California, Irvine School of Law will provide scholarships of at least one-third of tuition to each member of its next class of students, which school officials said will help it to continue it to attract high-caliber students.

The scholarships will cover all three years of law school for the Class of 2014. They are funded by private donations, which includes a gift from Mark P. Robinson Jr., chair of the Dean’s Advisory Council and senior partner at Robinson, Calcagnie & Robinson Inc. in Newport Beach, Calif.

“Because of the generosity of Mark Robinson and others, UCI Law will continue to provide generous scholarships to help us attract top-quality students,” said Dean Erwin Chemerinsky. “These scholarships will also help reduce the debt burdens of our students by the time they are ready to pursue careers in law and public service.”

UCI Law, the first new public law school in California in more than 40 years, aims to enroll about 100 students in its next class, which will be the third since the school opened in August 2009. Tuition at UC law schools in the fall of 2011 is expected to be about $40,000 for in-state students and $50,000 for those out of state.

The first two classes of UCI Law students also received scholarship support from private donations: The first received full-tuition scholarships, the second, half-tuition. Those classes had median grades and LSAT scores on par with classes at top 20 law schools, UC Irvine said in a press release.

The first two classes numbered 60 and 83 students. The school will increase the size of its classes gradually until they reach about 200 students.

Other types of financial aid, including guaranteed federal loans and loan forgiveness programs, will also be available to help cover tuition costs and other expenses.

Morning Roundup

joshua — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:26:54 +0000

Good morning everyone! Today is Thursday, June 17th. Here’s a quick recap of yesterday’s stories.

A team of five energy transaction lawyers left the newly formed Hogan Lovells for King & Spalding…

Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo established a scholarship in Herman Mintz’s name, one of the firm’s original name partners…

Three attorneys from Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel were named to Human Resource Executive magazine’s 2010 list of Most Powerful Employment Attorneys…

Seyfarth Shaw added one partner and one of counsel to its L.A. office…

Corporate Intl Magazine Global Awards named Sadis & Goldberg LLP the 2010 Corporate Advisory Firm of the Year in New York…

UC Irvine School of Law Announces Scholarships for Class of 2013

Aine Ford — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 01:07:33 +0000

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 year’s privately funded scholarships that granted the school’s Inaugural Class full-tuition for all three years. The Dean of the Law School, Erwin Chemerinsky, believes that these scholarships in combination with competitive admissions requirements will put the school in the top twenty as well as maintain a high caliber of student body. UC Irvine School of Law accepted only 4 percent of applicants for its Inaugural Class, which was the lowest acceptance rate in the country.

Tuition to the Law School for the second class is expected to be about $40,000 for in-state students and $50,000 for those out of state. While students are guaranteed on-campus housing, they will be responsible for their own housing and living expenses. Students who have difficulty paying the remainder of the tuition are able to receive other types of financial aid in the form of federal loans.

University of Miami Law to Defer Incoming Students

Erik Even — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:56:02 +0000

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 accept the offer will get a $5000 Public Interest Deferral Scholarship for the 2010-11 academic year, if they complete 120 hours of public service by June 2010. This is in addition to any other scholarship money.

Deferred students will also have a greater chance of receiving a $75,000 Miami Scholars Scholarship award; and will be first considered for all 2010 scholarships.

The University of Miami School of Law, founded in 1926, is one of the top 100 law schools in the United States. According to US News & World Report, the school is ranked 71st among all law schools, with its tax law program ranked 6th in the nation. The law school was ranked 26th overall in the annual 2009 Judging the Law Schools rankings.

The UM School of Law is located on the campus of the University of Miami in Coral Gables, just 6 miles southeast of Miami.

Harvard Law Reduces Summer Job Requirement

Erik Even — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:20:52 +0000

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 complete these work weeks, or risk losing their financial aid; although students who could not find work could appeal at the end of the summer.

But now the school has officially reduced the period of required work to eight weeks. The school initially resisted, unsure it could afford the change.

But after learning how many students were impacted by summer job reductions, Harvard Law reduced the requirement.

Harvard Law School is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it is the United States’ oldest law school in continuous operation. It is home to the largest academic law library in the world. HLS is typically ranked in the top three law schools in the nation, and is currently listed as the second best law school in the United States by US News and World Report, behind only Yale Law School.

AgnewBrusavich Awards Scholarships

Erik Even — Thu, 28 May 2009 17:25:16 +0000

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 and fees for the student’s first semester.

The law firm of AgnewBrusavich was established in in 1984 by attorneys Gerald E. Agnew Jr. and Bruce M. Brusavich.

Philadelphia Bar Announces Diversity Scholarships

Erik Even — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:20:49 +0000

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 School of Law, Maricruz Melendrez of Drexel University Earle Mack School of Law, and Jennifer Supplee of Temple’s Beasley School of Law.

The event will be co-hosted by the Barristers Association of Philadelphia, the Gay and Lesbian Lawyers of Philadelphia, the Hispanic Bar Association of Philadelphia, the Asian-Pacific American Bar Association of Philadelphia, and the South-Asian Bar Association of Philadelphia.

Law School to Allow Select Students to Apply Without LSATs

Erik Even — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:54:39 +0000

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 GPA of at least 3.75.

Those Honors College students who want to be eligible for a scholarship will still have to provide an LSAT score.

Marshall Gerstein Attorney Establishes LGBT Scholarship

Erik Even — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:17:57 +0000

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 at an American Bar Association-accredited law school, and be eligible to sit for the patent bar exam.

Applications for the $1,000 scholarship are due July 31.

Protas joined the firm as a summer associate in 2003 and 2004, and in 2005 joined the firm as a full-time associate.

Chicago’s Marshall, Gerstein & Borun was ranked in the top 15% among 352 law firms as a “Top Patent Firm” by Intellectual Property Today (March 2008).

A Top-Ranked Law School with Free Tuition. No, Really.

Erik Even — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 18:00:15 +0000

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 public university law school in the state in 40 years.

Scholarship winners will be chosen for their potential to emerge three years later as legal stars on the ascendance. Only the best and brightest need apply, but the school hopes to offer full scholarships to all 60 members of its inaugural class in 2009. Subsequent classes will be on a normal tuition basis.

“Our goal is to be a top 20 law school from the first time we are ranked,” Chemerinsky said. The school hopes to enroll 600 students and employ 40 to 50 professors.

The new school has already seen its first scandal, as dean Chemerinsky was hired away from Duke University, but then fired for his liberal politics. Protests led UC Irvine to rehire Chemerinsky.

Via The Associated Press.