Gary Williams, founder of The Law Firm for Family Law, is pleased to announce a scholarship available to students anticipating attending school in the fall of 2018 as either a pre law undergraduate or first year law student. The $500 scholarship is intended to help defray expenses for students that have been accepted into a school anywhere in the United States.<\/p>\n
ELIGIBILITY<\/p>\n
*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Applicants must meet the following criteria to be eligible for the said scholarship:<\/p>\n
*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Recipient is a U.S. citizen or otherwise authorized to work in the United States<\/p>\n
*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Recipient is accepted, and will either be attending school as a pre law undergraduate or entering law school in the fall of 2018<\/p>\n
*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Academic achievement as reflected by a cumulative minimum 3.0 GPA<\/p>\n
REQUIREMENTS<\/p>\n
*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Applicants must submit the following requirements by February 15th, 2018<\/p>\n
*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A completed resume<\/p>\n
*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 One to three (1-3) page typed essay on the topic of students choice related to the area of law they intend to pursue<\/p>\n
*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A complete copy of school transcripts<\/p>\n
*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 An acceptance letter from a school within the United States<\/p>\n
*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Proof of legal residency in the U.S. (i.e., birth certificate, passport, permanent resident card, etc.- Social Security Card will not be accepted.)<\/p>\n
AWARD<\/p>\n
*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Scholarship is to be used exclusively for school tuition and related expenses.<\/p>\n
*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A check for $500 will be made payable to the award recipient\u2019s directly to cover these expenses.<\/p>\n
*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Recipient is expected to submit receipts in accordance with IRS regulations.<\/p>\n
*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Scholarship award recipient will be notified of the selection on or about February 28, 2018.<\/p>\n
DEADLINE<\/p>\n
Completed applications<\/a> must be submitted, through the form below, no later than February 15, 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Gary Williams, founder of The Law Firm for Family Law, is pleased to announce a scholarship available to students anticipating attending school in the fall of 2018 as either a pre law undergraduate or first year law student. The $500 scholarship is intended to help defray expenses for students that have been accepted into a … Continue reading “The Law Firm for Family Law Scholarship Opportunity”<\/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-52527","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\/52527","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=52527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52531,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52527\/revisions\/52531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}