Bay Area Underserved Law Student Scholarship
Scholarship Sponsored by The Bar Association of San Francisco
Overview
Founded in 1998, this scholarship was created to assist underserved and underrepresented law students who have gained admission to law schools in the Bay Area. Over the past twenty-six years, the program has distributed more than $2 million in awards to 110 students, with individual scholarships typically providing approximately $10,000 per year.
Impact and alumni achievements
Recipients have gone on to careers across private, public interest, corporate, and government sectors. Alumni have worked at firms and organizations such as Keker Van Nest & Peters; Morrison & Foerster; LuxBus America; the San Mateo District Attorney’s Office; California Rural Legal Assistance Inc.; Square; Worksafe Inc.; and the U.S. Department of Justice.
Notable individual accomplishments include a former recipient who clerked for a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, another who served as a clerk for the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, and a recent awardee who is a Fulbright Scholar. In 2018 the program celebrated its first former scholar appointed as a California Superior Court judge.
Participating schools (eligibility)
Applicants must be admitted to one of the participating Bay Area law schools:
- University of California Berkeley School of Law
- Stanford Law School
- University of California Law San Francisco
- Santa Clara University School of Law
- University of San Francisco School of Law
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