Please provide copies of the enclosed application and the following guidelines to interested students. Applications must be postmarked by March 23, 2007.
The SFLRLA Public Interest Bar Review Scholarship is designed to provide financial assistance to law graduates who intend to pursue a career working with Bay Area community-based legal service providers to enhance the delivery of legal services to the Latino community. Scholarships will be awarded to graduates intending to work in areas where there is a substantial Latino population in need of legal services. The Association will give priority to scholarship applicants whose post-graduation employment will meet at least one of the following objectives:
a. Develop or expand legal services in the areas of housing, employment, discrimination, immigration and naturalization.
b. Develop materials and training to educate the Latino community about its legal rights and to facilitate its access to the justice system and the courts.
c. Provide training, referral, recruitment and mentoring to law students.
d. Creative projects not included within these guidelines will be considered.
AWARD
The San Francisco La Raza Lawyers Association will award one scholarship to finance a bar review course for a current third-year law student who has committed to working for a Bay Area organization serving the Latino community after the completion of the bar exam.
APPLICATION PROCESS
Law students should submit the enclosed application form, a current resume, and any letters of recommendation postmarked no later than March 23, 2007.
Fellowship winners will be presented at the Annual Noche de Gala in San Francisco in April 2007.
QUESTIONS
Please contact Franchesca Herrera at fherrera@mofo.com or (415) 268-7088.
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