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Since launching our grantmaking activities in 2014, we have awarded over $26.4 million in support of our research priorities: access, affordability, and the value of legal education.
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Council on Legal Education Opportunity, Inc. (CLEO)
Program:
Diversity Pipeline Research Grant Program
Date:
December 2015
Amount:
$125,000
Status:
Completed
The CLEO Legally Inspired Cohort (CLIC), aims to increase the number of diverse students who matriculate at an accredited law school and successfully complete their first year of law school. CLIC participants will attend one of four law schools accepting cohorts of five students. Participants will also attend a six-week prelaw summer institute, participate in a mentorship program, and attend a two-day seminar after the first semester.
To read more, please visit cleoinc.org
University of Wisconsin Law School
Program:
Diversity Pipeline Research Grant Program
Date:
December 2015
Amount:
$70,439
Status:
Completed
University of Wisconsin Law School, James E. Jones Jr. Pre-Law Scholars Program intends to help underrepresented minority students compete for admissions to law school, matriculate, graduate, and thrive in the practice of law. Scholars will participate in a four-week summer prelaw program focused on student preparedness.
To read more, please visit James E. Jones Jr. Four-Week Summer Pre-Law Scholars Program
Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
Program:
Diversity Pipeline Research Grant Program
Date:
December 2015
Amount:
$120,000
Status:
Completed
The Native American Pipeline to Law Initiative at Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, seeks to increase the number of Native American law students. Program activities include a five-day prelaw program, financial support for LSAT prep courses, a mentorship program, and early outreach to middle and high schools with high Native American populations.
To read more, please visit Pipeline to Law Initiative
The Association of American Law Schools (AALS)
Program:
Directed Grants Program
Date:
October 2015
Amount:
$250,000
Status:
Completed
The AALS strove to communicate a more balanced and informed understanding of legal education to key groups outside the legal academy including policymakers, leaders of the bar and bench, the media, prospective law students, and the general public. This grant from AccessLex Institute supported the general operation and implementation of this project.
To read more, please visit AALS Receives Access Group Grant to Support Public Outreach Efforts
Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (IAALS) at University of Denver
Program:
Directed Grants Program
Date:
April 2015
Amount:
$100,000
Status:
Completed
Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers, an initiative of IAALS, will collect data for its Foundations for Practice project. Foundations for Practice is a multi-year project designed to identify the foundations entry-level lawyers need to succeed in the practice of law; develop measurable models of legal education that support those foundations; and align market needs with hiring practices to incentivize positive improvements.
Download the full report at iaals.du.edu.
Texas A&M University School of Law
Program:
Directed Grants Program
Date:
April 2015
Amount:
$370,000
Status:
Completed
Through the Texas Lawyers Study, Texas A&M University School of Law will survey nearly 88,000 members of the State Bar of Texas to collect data regarding income levels, demographics and career satisfaction. The data will be used to better understand the varying effects of a law degree based on student characteristics as well to produce scholarly research on the economic value of a law degree.
University of Colorado Law School
Program:
Directed Grants Program
Date:
June 2014
Amount:
$200,000
Status:
Completed
Funding from AccessLex Institute helped support the development of the Tech Lawyer Accelerator Program at the University of Colorado Law School. This innovative program helped students secure jobs in technology and entrepreneurship and was designed to offer first- and second-year law students extensive educational training and professional experience with local and national technology firms.
Second year funding provided support to University of Colorado Law School to enhance the curriculum for its Tech Lawyer Accelerator (TLA) program, grow participation in the program and enhance the tracking of program effectiveness. The TLA program provided competency-based training for law students focused on the technology industry.
To read more, please visit New Tech Lawyer Accelerator Program Garners Inaugural Access Group Grant
Seton Hall University School of Law
Program:
Directed Grants Program
Date:
June 2014
Amount:
$120,000
Status:
Completed
Building on their previous paper, The Economic Value of a Law Degree, Michael Simkovic, Associate Professor of Law at Seton Hall University School of Law and Frank McIntyre, Assistant Professor of Finance at Rutgers Business School will use federal and national data sources to perform an empirical analysis of heterogeneity and cohort effects in the law school premium, and the effect of a law degree on earnings for specific identifiable subgroups of law students.
To read more, please visit The Economic Value of a Law Degree