Legal Scholarsip

Please, please, pretty please, with a cherry on top - do not waituntil the last minute to apply for this scholarship. It's$15,000 over 3 years! Anthony Deadline: March 1, 2007 Goto: http://www.abanet. org/fje/losfpage .html<http://www.abanet. org/fje/losfpage .html> ABA LEGAL OPPORTUNITYSCHOLARSHIP FUND General Information"Accolades" <http://www.abanet. org/fje/accolade s/fall03. pdf> Aperiodic update of the ABA Legal Opportunity Scholarship.According to the ABA Commission on Opportunities for Minoritiesin the Profession, in 1990, minorities comprised almost 25percent of the population of the United States. However, minorityrepresentation in the legal profession in that same year wasunder seven and one half percent. When he took office in August1999, President William G. Paul announced that one of the primaryefforts of his presidential term would be to address diversity inthe legal profession.As part of President Paul's initiative to increase diversity inthe legal profession and at his request, the ABA Board ofGovernors, at the Annual Meeting in Atlanta, established the ABALegal Opportunity Scholarship Fund. The Legal OpportunityScholarship Fund, established within the Fund for Justice andEducation, is intended to encourage racial and ethnic minoritystudents to attend law school and to provide financial assistanceto those in need.The goals of President Paul's diversity initiative are toincrease minority participation in the legal profession byencouraging members of racial and ethnic minorities to considerlaw as a career and to provide increased opportunities forminorities already in the profession. Financial aid to minoritylaw students is an essential part of the initiative.The ABA Legal Opportunity Scholarships were awarded beginningwith the 2000-2001 academic year. The Scholarship Fund awards$5,000 of financial assistance annually to each scholarshiprecipient attending an ABA-accredited law school. Assuming therecipient achieves satisfactory performance in law school, anaward made to an entering freshman may be renewed for twoadditional years, resulting in financial assistance totaling$15,000 during his or her time in law school. A scholarshipcommittee, comprised of representatives from ABA entities, thenational minority bar associations and at-large members, has beencreated to screen the applicants for the Legal OpportunityScholarship Fund.The response to the creation of the ABA Legal OpportunityScholarship Fund has been tremendous. Together, Bill and BarbaraPaul, and his law firm, Crowe & Dunlevy, initiated the program bypledging $100,000 to establish the Legal Opportunity ScholarshipFund. To date, over $1.7 million in pledges and contributions hasbeen raised for the Scholarship Fund. In addition to pledges andcontributions from individuals, corporations and law firms, ABAentities have been extremely generous.With continued support of members of the legal community, theLegal Opportunity Scholarship Fund will be able to impactdiversity in the legal profession by encouraging and supportingracial and ethnic minority law students for the next ten totwenty years.____________ _________ __ Anthony Solana, Jr. Attorney at Law P.O.Box 712412 Los Angeles, CA 90071 anthonysolana@ earthlink. net ForPeople of Color, Inc., President Chairpersonwww.forpeopleofcolo r.org Equal Justice Society, Board Memberwww.equaljusticesoc iety.org Greenlining Academy AlumniAssociation, Board Member Secretary www.greenlining. org