American Bar Association Legal Opportunity Scholarship

Legal Opportunity Scholarship Fund

2006-2007

The ABA Legal Opportunity Scholarship Fund is intended to encourage racial and ethnic minority students to apply to law school and to provide financial assistance to these students. The scholarship Fund will award $5000 of financial assistance annually to each scholarship recipient attending an ABA-accredited law school. Twenty awards will be made to entering first-year students and may be renewable for two additional years, resulting in financial assistance totaling $15,000 during his or her time in law school. 

Eligibility

Recipients will be selected based on their qualifications for the scholarship and not on the law school they plan to attend.  Therefore, law students applying to any and all ABA-accredited law schools may benefit from these scholarships. I would like to encourage you to inform prospective law students of the availability of the ABA Legal Opportunity Scholarships.

Application Process

Please fill out the notification form along with a statement of reasons why a scholarship is deserved (amount of loans, lack of job or job prospects, commitment to law, etc.) Any applications submitted without a statement of reasons will be rejected.

Deadline

Completed scholarship applications must be postmarked no later than March 1, 2006.

Applications should be sent to:

ABA Legal Opportunities Scholarship Fund

Office of the President

750 N. Lake Shore Dr.

Chicago IL 60611