The ABA Legal Opportunity Scholarship Fund offers a solution that complements internal diversity, equity, and inclusion goals while empowering students of color as they embark on their rigorous academic journey to becoming an attorney. Ensuring a diverse legal profession is more than a business imperative. It results in a more just and productive profession because diversity, both cognitive and cultural, leads to better questions, analyses, solutions, and processes. A significant aspect of ensuring a diverse pipeline to the profession lies in financially supporting more law students so they can focus and excel in their studies.

In its 25th Anniversary Year, the ABA Legal Opportunity Scholarship Fund has increased the number of incoming (1L) recipients from 20 to 25 to receive a $15,000 award each, payable over their three years of law school. In addition, there are 20 2L and 20 3L continuing recipients who also receive $5,000 each so the fundraising need is $325,000. These exceptionally talented and deeply committed recipients often have a passion for public service and continue to champion justice long after law school.

Students graduating with less financial burden will be better positioned to pursue careers in public service or in private practice in the community of their choosing. Learn more at: ABA Legal Opportunity Scholarship Fund