{"id":23618,"date":"2014-11-12T10:19:36","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T15:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/?p=23618"},"modified":"2014-11-12T10:19:36","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T15:19:36","slug":"first-annual-asian-heritage-law-school-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/2014\/11\/12\/first-annual-asian-heritage-law-school-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"First Annual Asian Heritage Law School Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Gabriel Cheong with Infinity Law Group LLC has announced a new scholarship for law students of Asian heritage. The $1,000 scholarship will be awarded in January, 2015 and is intended to encourage more Asian Americans to consider law as a career option.<\/p>\n<p>The Asian Heritage Law Scholarship is open to any student who will be attending law school this spring. Candidates are asked to write a short essay describing how their background and experiences in the Asian American community influenced their choice to go to law school and how they plan to use their law degree.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ELIGIBILITY:<\/strong> Applicants must meet the following criteria:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Recipient is a U.S. citizen or otherwise authorized to work in the United States<\/li>\n<li>Recipient is accepted, and will be attending their first year of law school in the fall of the same year following the application<\/li>\n<li>Academic achievement as reflected by an undergraduate cumulative minimum 3.0 GPA<\/li>\n<li>Recipient must be of Asian heritage with at least one parent of Asian ancestry<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>REQUIREMENTS:<\/strong> Applicants must submit the following by January 12, 2015:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A completed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infinlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Infinity-Application-Form.pdf\">Scholarship Application Form<\/a><\/li>\n<li>One to three (1-3) page typed essay<\/li>\n<li>An official and complete copy of undergraduate college transcripts<\/li>\n<li>A copy of an acceptance letter from an accredited law school within the United States<\/li>\n<li>Proof of legal residency in the U.S. (i.e., birth certificate, passport, permanent resident card, etc.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>AWARD:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Infinity Law Group Scholarship is to be used exclusively for law school tuition and related expenses.<\/li>\n<li>A check for $1,000 will be made payable to the award recipient\u2019s law school to cover these expenses.<\/li>\n<li>Recipient is expected to submit receipts in accordance with IRS regulations.<\/li>\n<li>Infinity Law Group Scholarship award recipient will be notified of the selection on or about February 1, 2015.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>DEADLINE:<\/strong> Completed applications must be submitted no later than January 12, 2015. Application materials should be mailed (or e-mailed in PDF format) to:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Infinity Law Group<br \/>\nGabriel Cheong<br \/>\nOne Adams Place<br \/>\n859 Willard St. Ste. 400<br \/>\nQuincy, MA 02169<br \/>\n(619) 250-8236<br \/>\ninfo@infinlaw.com<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infinlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Infinity-Application-Form.pdf\">Scholarship Application Form<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gabriel Cheong with Infinity Law Group LLC has announced a new scholarship for law students of Asian heritage. The $1,000 scholarship will be awarded in January, 2015 and is intended to encourage more Asian Americans to consider law as a career option. The Asian Heritage Law Scholarship is open to any student who will be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/2014\/11\/12\/first-annual-asian-heritage-law-school-scholarship\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;First Annual Asian Heritage Law School Scholarship&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":233,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scholarships"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/233"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23622,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23618\/revisions\/23622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}