Links for Minority Law Students
Scholarships and Opportunities
- Ventura County Asian-American Bar Association Scholarship - applicants do not have to be Asian American to be eligible
- ABA Legal Opportunity Scholarship Fund
- Black Excel is a website geared towards African American students, but has a good list of links for all types of scholarships
- The Council on Legal Education Opportunity has a list of Financial Aid Programs for Minorities and Disadvantaged Students in Law School
- Davis Wright Tremaine has two diversity scholarships for first year students, who participate in the summer associate program with partner and associate mentors. Then, in their second year they receive a $7,500 scholarship.
- FastWeb: Free scholarship and college searches, and financial aid tools.
- FindAid! has a page for specifically for minority students
- Gates Millenium Scholars Program
- Hispanic College Fund
- The Hispanic Lawyers of Illinois offer a scholarship for first year law students.
- National Black Law Students Association has scholarships listed on their site.
- National Asian Pacific American Bar Association Law Foundation has scholarships available
- Filipino-American Lawyers of San Diego award annual scholarships to third-year law students to ease the cost of the California State Bar Exam.
- Practicing attorneys for Law Students Program, Inc. PALS matches minority law students with volunteer lawyers who serve as mentors to provide career guidance for minorities in the legal profession.
- Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund
- United Negro College Fund
- University
of Texas Law's William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest
Law and the Baylor University School of Law have established the
Equal
Justice Scholarships.
- U.S. News has a scholarship seach
- There are many, many more scholarship pages than can be listed here. We recommend checking with national and local minority bar associations as well as state bar associations.
- Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles has Scholarships
Employment, Internships, Fellowships and Grants
- The White House Initiative on Asian American and Pacific Islanders: Internship Program
- The Asian Pacific Institute for Congressional Studies has internship and fellowship opportunities
- The Black Collegian Online provides cutting-edge information on career resources for Black collegians
- The Dept of the Interior's Office of the Solicitor has a Solicitor's Honor Program for outstanding third year law students.
- The Juvenile Law Center has a fellowship program.
- INROADS recruits outstanding students of color with 3.0 or better grade point averages for internship opportunities
- Olive W. Garvey Fellowship program has awarded fellowships biennially to outstanding college students around the world through a competitive essay contest
- The Supreme Court has a Judicial Fellows Program.
- Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles has a public interest grant program
Judicial Clerkships
- The Judicial Clerkship Program is a program the Commission holds jointly with the ABA Judicial Division.
- We have an online pamphlet titled The Courts: An Excellent Place for Attorneys of Color to Launch Their Careers.
- The Charlotte Legal Diversity Clerkship is a summer program for first-year law students who advance the value of diversity.
- George Mason University School of Law has an online guide to clerkships.
- BYU has a guide to clerkships in PDF
- judicialclerkships.com has tips, links and information on the book Behind the Bench: The Guide to Judicial Clerkships.
- Jurist's Judicial Clerkships page
- Lexis ® is useful for searching for judges, and they also have a student section on their website. The lexis.com Career Library gives you exclusive online access to NALP's Judicial Clerkship Directory. The Judicial Clerkship Directory is the leading national publication about judicial clerkships with state and federal judges.
- The Federal Law Clerk Information System allows prospective applicants to search a national database of federal law clerk vacancies.
- The Judicial Division has a Directory of Minority Judges (3rd edition)
- US Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces has clerkship listings.
Schools
- ABA approved schools
- Internet Legal Resource Guide lists the top 20 law schools based on the diversity index.
- U.S. New and World Report's Diversity Index for Law Schools
- Law School Admission Council
- The Princeton Review has a website with a great section on law schools, including a way to search based on minority enrollment.
General Links
- In Legal Color, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to increase law school diversity by providing inspiration, information, and support to prospective law students of color.
- Our Statistics page now features statistics about law students.
- ABA's CLEO (Council on Legal Education Opportunities) holds six-week pre-law summer institute and an online guide to law school admissions.
- ABA's Law Student Division's web site has a wealth of information for minority and majority law students.
- ABA's Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar has lots of information of interest to law students.
- CivilRights.org has a Student Activist Network to support civil rights issues, particularly affirmative action.
- Internet Legal Resource Guide has a Law Students Services section
- JURIST is a highly recommended law schools portal. Has a lot of information useful to students including information about law schools, admissions, Judicial Clerkships, and employment as well as more general legal research.
- Law.com's Students section
- LawInfo's Law Student section
- Law School Admission Council (LSAC)
- A Guide to the Law School Application Process for People of Color
Links to Resouces
Journals
- ABA's Law Student Division publishes Student Lawyer
- Harvard University's Civil Rights Project
Minority Organizations
- The Black Collegian has a useful page for Graduate and Professional School
- Black Excel is a website geared towards African American students
- Hispanic National Bar Association - Law Student Division
- National Asian Pacific American Law Students Association (NAPALSA)
- National Black Law Students Association
- National Latina/o Law Student Assocation
- National South Asian Law Student Association (NSALSA)
