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Scholarship Databank

The Mahoning County Bar Association Foundation is a non-profit organization primarily funded by the members of the Mahoning County Bar Association. Scholarships are offered for persons having substantial ties to the Mahoning Valley about to enter, or are already enrolled in law school

To enhance the professional skills of Chinese legal practitioners, encourage legal talent to pursue advanced legal studies, and promote sustainable progress and prosperity of China's legal industry, Han Kun launched the Han Kun Youth Legal Scholarship. The scholarship was created from the need to attract elite legal talent.

The Will County Bar Association in collaboration with the Black Bar Association of Will County, Latino Bar Association of Will County, Will County Women’s Bar Association and Spesia & Taylor Attorneys at Law is pleased to announce applications are currently being accepted for the Will County Legal Opportunity Scholarship Program. The purpose of this Program is to encourage diversity within the Will County legal community by awarding a scholarship to an incoming first year Black or Latino Law Student.

The Illinois Judges Foundation awards the Harold Sullivan Scholarship to one or more students attending an Illinois law school.

This scholarship will help two underrepresented students break down the barriers of higher education, accomplish their educational goals, and prepare them for a future in law.

The goal of this scholarship is part of the firm's efforts to increase diversity as well as increase diversity in the legal profession.

This scholarship is a one-time award to a second-year law student attending an Illinois Law School. It is named for the Hon. William Stewart Boyd, who has spent more than two decades as an Associate Judge for the Cook County Circuit Court, and who has agreed to mentor the scholarship winners.

Scholarships are available to all second- and third-year full-time/day and all third and fourth-year part-time/evening students with a keen interest in Italian culture and history from any of the Illinois law schools. Merit and financial need will be taken into consideration.

Offered to a second- or third-year law student, of Hellenic descent, from Illinois or enrolled in an Illinois law school

This scholarship seeks to award a deserving student who has either served in the armed forces or is the child of a veteran.

This scholarship will be awarded to a student who can provide real-life examples of how they are making a difference in their community.

This foundation scholarship is directed at diverse and deserving law students. Participation and leadership in supporting diversity-related programs as well as merit and financial need will be considered.

Scholarship is awarded to a law student who has demonstrated their leadership skills and used those skills to help achieve diversity inclusion within the legal community.

This scholarship will be awarded to a law student who is interested in pursuing a career in public service or a student who is actively involved with a not-for-profit agency that represents the needy and the underprivileged.

This is a rotating scholarship between the six-Chicago area law schools. Each school selects its own recipient.

This scholarship is available for 1L students who are making a difference in the Hispanic Community.

Must be a qualified 1L student at an ABA-accredited law school and must possess a diverse background, a technical degree in science or engineering, and a commitment to pursuing a patent law career in Chicago to apply for this summer associates program.

One application can be used to apply for several scholarships with the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, all aimed at law students at one of the Foundation's Constituent Law Schools.

This education trust scholarship is geared to provide support to Jewish students, born and raised in the Chicago Metropolitan area. The trust's mission is to actively promote excellence in legal education and to encourage the most scholastically qualified students to remain or return to Chicago area to practice law. The primary criteria for the award are career promise and financial need.

The International Peace Scholarship Fund is a program which provides scholarships for selected women from other countries for graduate study in the U.S. and Canada. Members of P.E.O. believe that education is fundamental to world peace and understanding.

The Black Women Lawyers’ Association Scholarship Fund (BWLA-SF) endeavors to encourage African-American women in the law through support in their legal education and to promote diversity in the legal profession.

The spouses of Congressional Black Caucus members created this scholarship to address the educational need in the congressional districts in response to federal cuts in spending for education programs and scholarships, which disproportionately affect people of color. This opportunity awards scholarships to academically talented and highly motivated African-American or Black students pursuing an undergraduate, graduate, or doctoral degrees in a variety of fields.

The Bohemian Lawyers' Scholarship Fund was established to provide financial assistance to law students of Czech, Moravian, Ruthenian, Silesian, or Slovac ancestry in the Chicagoland area.

To assist students who have received foster care, guardianship, adoption, or Continuing Education and Job Training from the Casey Family Programs in certain states, this scholarship will assist students attending college or graduate school.

The Gamma Mu Scholarships Program provides support to gay men who want to further their education at a college, university, or vocational or professional training program.

The NWSBA Foundation is honored to recognize Judge Timothy C. Evans’ contribution to the legal community through The Honorable Timothy C. Evans Scholarship.

This association scholarship is open to all first, second-, and third year women law students who have a DuPage county connection and are enrolled in an accredited law school in Illinois. Merit and financial need will be taken into consideration.

We offer an annual scholarship and a summer associate position. With 300 lawyers and growing, we serve sophisticated clients of all sizes and in virtually all industries from our offices in Chicago, New York, Washington, DC, London, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Singapore.