CBJ - June 2010 #08. Twelve receive scholarships to help with bar exam expenses.

California Bar Journal

2010.

CBJ - June 2010 #08.

Twelve receive scholarships to help with bar exam expenses

The California LawyerJune 2010Twelve receive scholarships to help with bar exam expensesTwelve graduating law students - including three former inner-city teachers, an immigrants' rights activist and two single mothers who have overcome substantial obstacles to graduate from college and law school - were awarded scholarships last month to assist with the cost of taking the bar exam. The recipients were awarded the Rosenthal Bar Exam Scholarships by the California Bar Foundation.

Nominated by their law schools, the students have demonstrated a commitment to public service, including hundreds of volunteer hours at legal clinics and other nonprofit organizations, an impressive academic record and an average educational loan debt of $143,000. Their plans after graduation include Skadden and Equal Justice Works Fellowships, federal judicial clerkships, the Army National Guard JAG Corps, and positions at various district attorneys' offices, public defenders' offices and legal services organizations.

The scholarship is one of the few programs in the country specifically aimed at providing bar exam-related support for public interest lawyers-to-be. Reed Smith LLP and The Sidley Austin Foundation have underwritten the cost of the foundation program, which will give $2,000 scholarships to each recipient. In addition, the top six recipients also...