OACTA’s annual Law Student Diversity Scholarship program is open to incoming second and third-year African American, Hispanic, Asian, Pan Asian and Native American students enrolled at Ohio law schools.
\nIncoming second and third-year female law students enrolled at Ohio law schools are also eligible regardless of race or ethnicity. Other criteria for the scholarship include:<\/p>\n
-Academic achievement in law school;
\n-Professional interest in civil defense practice; and
\n-Service to community and to the cause of diversity.<\/p>\n
Up to two (2) scholarships in the amount of $2,500 each will be awarded to successful applicants. Applicants are required to submit an application, law school transcript and a cover letter addressing the following: academic, personal and professional accomplishments, and why they should be selected as a recipient of the scholarship. Applicants may submit up to three letters of recommendation.<\/p>\n
The deadline<\/strong> for completed applications and all other requested materials has been extended to May 11, 2018<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Winners will be announced in June and recognized at the OACTA Annual Meeting in November.<\/p>\n Application materials and additional information can be found on the OACTA website:\u00a0https:\/\/www.oacta.org\/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=75:the-oacta-foundation&catid=19:site-content&Itemid=162<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" OACTA’s annual Law Student Diversity Scholarship program is open to incoming second and third-year African American, Hispanic, Asian, Pan Asian and Native American students enrolled at Ohio law schools. Incoming second and third-year female law students enrolled at Ohio law schools are also eligible regardless of race or ethnicity. Other criteria for the scholarship include: … Continue reading “Ohio Association of Civil Trial Attorneys Diversity Scholarship”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3383,"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":[165,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scholarships","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57307","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\/3383"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57307"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57391,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57307\/revisions\/57391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}