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Awards, Competitions, Grants and Scholarships

Awards and Grants

Did you know the ABA presents over 100 awards and distributes over $100,000 in awards and grants each year? The ABA Awards and Grants Listing is the only comprehensive list of all these awards and grants available from the ABA including eligibility, criteria, type of award, application information and deadlines. For on $17.95, the electronic version is fully searchable. Link me to the ABA Awards and Grants Listing

In addition, over 20 of these awards and grants have been specifically designed for law schools or law students, including writing competitions and fellowships. Don’t miss the opportunity to gain recognition for your accomplishments, that of your law school or student organization. A sampling is provided below.

Law Student Division Competitions

Arbitration Competition
Co-sponsored by the National Arbitration Forum, this competition promotes excellence in arbitration advocacy
Award: Cash prize

Client Counseling Competition
A competition promoting preventive law and counseling functions.
Award: Cash prize

Negotiation Competition
The competition simulates legal negotiations in which law students, acting as lawyers, negotiate a series of legal problems.
Award: Cash prize

National Appellate Advocacy Competition
A traditional moot court competition focusing on written and oral advocacy skills.
Award: Cash prize

Other Competitions

Environment, Energy, and Resources and the Environmental Law Institute
Pace Law School's National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition

Tax Section
Student Tax Challenge
Award: Cash prize, travel and lodging to Tax Section Midyear Meeting, notice of award on Section's website and in its NewsQuarterly newsletter

Awards

Be sure to see the ABA Law Student Division's complete list of awards that are awarded to students and schools during the ABA Annual Meeting.

Legal Assistance for Military Personnel
Legal Assistance Student Award
Award: Certificate of Recognition

Center for Professional Responsibility
E. Smythe Gambrell Professionalism Award
Award: $3,500 to a law school or law organization

Division of Public Education
Award for Distinguished Achievement in Environmental Law and Policy
Postmarked Deadline: March

Scholarships

American Bar Association
Legal Opportunity Scholarship Fund
Award: $5,000 financial assistance annually per student
Application deadline: March
Eligibility: Must be entering first year of law school in the fall of 2008

Business Law, Section of
Council on Legal Education Opportunities (CLEO) Scholarship
Awards: Four to five $1,000 scholarships annually to CLEO Fellow Scholars selected based on an essay competition to attend the Section's Spring Meeting
Application Deadline: January

Communications Law, Forum Committee on
Scholarship to attend the Forum Committee's Annual Conference
Award: Funding to attend Forum Committee Meeting and opportunity to write report for publication in their publication, Communication Lawyer (more information)

Katherine Finn Milleman Memorial Scholarship
Sponsor: Story County (Iowa) Bar Association
Award: Up to $7,500 for an academic year with the first annual scholarship to be awarded for the fall semester 2008.
Application deadline: April 15, 2008
For more information about this scholarship, contact the the Story County Bar Association in Ames, Iowa

Other Opportunities

National Association of Women Lawyers
3rd Annual Selma Moidel Smith Law Student Writing Competition
Award: $500 and publication in the NAWL Women Lawyers Journal (Summer 2008)
Entry must be received by: April 30, 2008

The National Lesbian & Gay Law Association
Michael Greenberg Student Writing Competition
Awards: $3,000, $2,000, and $1,000, registration, airfare and lodging to attend Lavender Law 2008 in San Francisco, and publication in the Journal of Law and Sexuality at Tulane University Law School for the first-place winner.
For questions or additional information visit http://www.nlgla.org/

Financial Aid

Council on Legal Education Opportunities
A Thurgood Marshall Legal Educational Opportunity Program
List of financial aid programs for students intending to enter law school as well those who are presently enrolled and have substantial financial need.

For additional information, the ABA Commission on Ethnic and Racial Diversity also has a listing of links and organizations offering scholarships, grants, fellowships and other financial assistance to women and minority law students. For more information, their listing can be found at http://www.abanet.org/minorities/links/students.html.

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