University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law

The urban public law school with a small liberal arts feel

External Scholarships ABA Legal Opportunity Scholarship Fund The Scholarship Fund awards $5,000 of financial assistance annually to each scholarship recipient attending an ABA-accredited law school. The mission of the Legal Opportunity Scholarship Fund is to encourage racial and ethnic minority students to apply to law school and to provide financial assistance to ensure that these students have the opportunity to attend law school for three years. ABA Legal Opportunity Scholarship Fund information available here. ABA of Kansas City (AABAKC) Diversity Scholarship The Asian American Bar Association of Kansas City (AABAKC) plans to award a $1,000 and a $500 Diversity Scholarship to eligible law students who demonstrate a commitment to serve or contribute to the Asian American community as future leaders. To be eligible, law students must be a dues-paying law student member of AABAKC and enrolled in an ABA accredited law school (either as a first-year or second-year full-time student) as of April 1, 2008. Prior AABAKC Scholarship recipients shall be excluded from consideration for the award. ABA of Kansas City (AABAKC) Diversity Scholarship information available here. ABA of Kansas City (AABAKC) membership information available here. ABA Section of Business Law Diversity Clerkship Program This is a summer program providing business law internship placements for qualified diverse candidates who are first or second year law students. ABA Diversity Clerkship Program information available here. ABA Section of Business Law Mendes Hershman Student Writing Contest Each ABA-accredited law school, acting through its dean, is asked to nominate, by January 4, 2008, one paper on a high quality business law topic written in the 2007-2008 or current academic year by a student currently enrolled in the law school's J.D. program. The paper may be 1) specifically prepared for this contest; 2) submitted in a class, seminar, or as an independent study; or 3) a proposed law review/journal note, comment or article. ABA Mendes Hershman Student Writing Contest information available here. ABA Section of Litigation Judicial Intern Opportunity Program The Judicial Intern Opportunity Program is a full-time, six-week minimum, summer internship program open to all first- or second-year minority and/or financially disadvantaged law students who want to do legal research and writing for state or federal judges in participating cities. Interns will receive an award of $1,500. ABA Intern Opportunity Program information available here. Cole County Bar Association Scholarship This scholarship will be awarded to a Cole County resident on the basis of academic and financial need. Preference will be given to an applicant who is related to a member of or has connection with the Cole County Bar Association. Cole County scholarship information available here. Constangy, Brooks & Smith Diversity Scholars Award To be eligible, you must be a second-year student enrolled in an accredited law school that is located in Alabama, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, or Virginia. Selection criteria will include your academic achievement; commitment to diversity in the community, or in your school or work environment; and personal achievement in overcoming challenges to reach your goals. Constangy scholars award information available here. Donald W. Banner Diversity Scholarship for Law Students Banner & Witcoff is proud to offer the Donald W. Banner Diversity Scholarship for law students. This scholarship is part of Banner & Witcoff's commitment to fostering the development of intellectual property lawyers from diverse backgrounds. Banner Diversity scholarship information and application available here. Dorothy Atkinson Legal Education Scholarship Fund This scholarship was named in honor of Mrs. Richard Atkinson, a past president, who worked diligently in cooperation with other Barristers’ Wives to secure the needed incorporation of the National Barristers’ Wives in February, 1953. Atkinson scholarship information available here. Henry C. McDougal Northwest Missouri Legal Scholarship Fund The McDougal Scholarship provides one or more scholarships to students attending one of Missouri's accredited law schools. Recipients must be a resident of northwest Missouri, which is defined to include the following counties: Atchison, Nodaway, Holt, Worth, Gentry, Andrew, Dekalb, Clinton, Clay, Buchanan, Platte, Jackson, Lafayette, Ray, Caldwell, Daviess, Harrison, Mercer, Grundy, Livingston and Carroll. Among the most important factors to be considered by the Trustees of the Missouri Bar Foundation in granting scholarships to northwest Missouri residents to attend a Missouri law school will be academic scholarship and financial need. McDougal scholarship information available here. Howard Fox Memorial Law Scholarship The Howard Fox Memorial Law Scholarship Award of $3,000 is presented annually at the Berks County Bar Association Law Day Event. It is given to help fund a deserving Berks County, Pennsylvania, resident embarking on his or her second year at an accredited Law School. Online scholarship application form available here. Mdivani Immigration Law Scholarship This scholarship is being offered by law alumnae, Ms. Mira Mdivani (Class of 1999), in honor of her father, Archil Mdivani. To be awarded to a student demonstrating serious interest in the practice of immigration law. Mdivani scholarship information available here. Summer 2008 Judicial Intern Opportunity The Summer 2008 Judicial Intern Opportunity Program is a full-time, six-week minimum, summer internship program open to all first- or second-year minority and/or financially disadvantaged law students who want to do legal research and writing for state or federal judges in participating cities. 2008 Summer Judicial Internship information available here. 2008 Flyer available here.