Sidley Prelaw Scholars Initiative

The Sidley Prelaw Scholars Initiative is designed to increase diversity in law schools by subsidizing the cost of applying to law school for talented financially needy minority students.

“Sidley has a significant commitment to achieving greater ethnic and racial diversity within the legal profession and the firm. We wanted to develop a program that would widen the pipeline by helping to eliminate barriers at an earlier stage in a student’s career,” said Thomas A. Cole, chairman of the firm’s Executive Committee. “Our Diversity Committee and staff are to be congratulated for developing this creative approach.”
Elements of the Program


For each Scholar, the firm pays for:

• Tuition for an approved LSAT preparatory course;
• Registration fees for the June LSAT and the LSDAS; and
• Up to seven (7) Law School application fees and LSDAS reports
  

Each Scholar also receives:

• Coaching on how to complete a successful law school application;
• An additional $2,500 in scholarship assistance; and
• Prelaw school instruction on the structure of the American legal system, as well as an introduction to the substance of the required common law first-year courses.
  

For more information, please visit the website. The deadline is January 22, 2010.