{"id":53715,"date":"2018-02-06T08:31:57","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T13:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/?p=53715"},"modified":"2018-02-06T08:31:57","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T13:31:57","slug":"aba-legal-opportunity-scholarship-application-for-the-2018-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/2018\/02\/06\/aba-legal-opportunity-scholarship-application-for-the-2018-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"ABA Legal Opportunity Scholarship Application for the 2018-2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Click <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/101\/2018\/02\/ABA-LOS-APPLICATION-PKG.doc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u00a0<\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">for\u00a0the\u00a0application for the ABA Legal Opportunity Scholarship Fund for the 2018-2019 academic year.\u00a0 The Scholarship Fund is intended to encourage racial and ethnic minority students to apply to law school and to provide financial assistance to these students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">The Scholarship Fund will award $5,000 of financial assistance annually to each scholarship recipient attending an ABA-accredited law school.\u00a0 An award made to an entering first-year student may be renewable for two additional years, resulting in financial assistance totaling $15,000 during his or her time in law school.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">The application can also be downloaded from our websites:\u00a0 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanbar.org\/groups\/diversity\/diversity_pipeline\/projects_initiatives\/legal_opportunity_scholarship.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.americanbar.org\/groups\/diversity\/diversity_pipeline\/projects_initiatives\/legal_opportunity_scholarship.html<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0 OR\u00a0 <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abanet.org\/fje\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.abanet.org\/fje<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Completed scholarship applications must be received by April 6, 2018.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Recipients will be selected based on their qualifications for the scholarship and not on the law school they plan to attend.\u00a0 Therefore, law students applying to any and all ABA-accredited law schools may benefit from these scholarships.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click here\u00a0for\u00a0the\u00a0application for the ABA Legal Opportunity Scholarship Fund for the 2018-2019 academic year.\u00a0 The Scholarship Fund is intended to encourage racial and ethnic minority students to apply to law school and to provide financial assistance to these students. 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