The SFLRLA Public Interest Law Fellowship is designed to provide financial assistance to law students working with Bay Area community-based legal service providers to enhance the delivery of legal services to the Latino community. Fellowships will be awarded in areas where there is a substantial Latino population in need of legal services.
The Association will give priority to fellowship applicants who meet at least one of the following objectives:
- Projects to develop or expand legal services in the areas of housing, employment, discrimination, immigration and naturalization.
- Projects that develop materials and training to educate the Latino community about its legal rights and to facilitate its access to the justice system and the courts.
- Projects that provide training, referral, recruitment and mentoring to law students.
- Creative projects not included within these guidelines will be considered.
The San Francisco La Raza Lawyers Association will award between three and five fellowships to law students to fund summer employment in 2006. The amount of each fellowship will vary depending on the individual’s financial need, up to $5,000.
The San Francisco La Raza Lawyers Association will also award one bar review course to a current law student who has committed to working for a Bay Area organization serving the Latino community after the completion of the bar exam.
Law students should submit the enclosed application form, a current resume, a description of their proposed project, and letters of recommendation postmarked no later than April 10, 2006.
Fellowship winners will be presented at the Annual Noche de Gala in San Francisco in May 2006.
The ABA announces that applications are now available online for the Legal Opportunity Scholarship Fund. The Scholarship Fund is intended to encourage racial and ethnic minority students to apply to law school and provide financial assistance to the scholarship recipients.
The Scholarship Fund will award $5,000 of financial assistance annually to each scholarship recipient attending an ABA-accredited law school. An award made to an entering first-year student may be renewable for two additional years, resulting in financial assistance totaling $15,000 during his or her time in law school.
Completed applications must be postmarked no later than March 1, 2006. Please inform any prospective law student of the availability of the ABA Legal Opportunity Scholarships.
The application can be found at www.abanet.org/fje/schapp2005.pdf.
This is a $400 scholarship towards a Fulcrum Test Preparation LSAT Full Length Class. The class and all materials, including the ten most recent LSATs, normally costs $899. Application and past winners can be found online here. Students in proven extreme financial should see pre-law advisor Kathy Wright, kwright at stanford dot edu, for a full scholarship.
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