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Outside Scholarships

Students are encouraged to investigate scholarships from outside sources including libraries, employers and civic organizations. Additional scholarship search engines are available at www.finaid.org.

The following list will change throughout the year, as we receive notifications from organizations offering aid.  Please check this page often to find new scholarship opportunities!

ABA Law Student Division - Events & Competitions

This site is a general link for ABA sponsored competitions, writing contests, scholarships and other opportunities.  Awards, deadlines and requirements will vary.

Abbott & Fenner Scholarship

Abbott & Fenner Business Consultants is offering a $1,000 scholarship to students for the 2012-13 academic year.  To apply for the scholarship, you must write a 500-1000 essay on the following topic:  What was the most difficult time in your life, and why?  How did your perspective on life change as a result of this difficulty?

Scholarship Award:  $1,000

Applications and Deadlines:  Your essay must be submitted via email to scholarships@abbottandfenner.com; include your full name and mailing address.  Essays must be received by June 15, 2012.

B. Davis Scholarship

This scholarship is sponsored by Student Award Search Aid and is offered to any student registered in a post-secondary institution.  There is no age restriction for this award.  To apply, submit an essay on the following topic:  Discuss, in less than 1000 words, how your education has contributed to who you are today, or how it will affect who you will become. 

Scholarship Award:  $1,000

Applications and Deadlines:  Your essay must be submitted via email to awards@studentawardsearch.com.  Your email must include your name, school you are attending this year and next and your future academic plans.  Essays must be received by May 28, 2012.

American Bar Association Legal Opportunity Scholarship

The ABA Legal Opportunity Scholarship grants 20 incoming diverse law students with $15,000 of financial assistance over the course of their three years in law school.  The purpose of the ABA Legal Opportunity Scholarship is to encourage racial and ethnic minority students to apply to and attend law school and to provide financial assistance to ensure that these students have the opportunity to attend law school for three years.

Applicants must be entering, first-year law students for the 2012-13 academic year.  At the time of submission of the application, the applicant must have achieved a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.5 (on a 4.0 grading scale) at his or her undergraduate institution.  If the applicant has not completed his or her undergraduate degree at the time the application is submitted, he or she must have a cumulative GPA of at least 2.5 as of the most recent completed semester.  Applicants must be a citizen or permanent resident of the United States.

The ABA Legal Opportunity Scholarship will award $5,000 of financial assistance annually to each scholarship recipient attending an ABA-accredited law school.  An award made to an entering first-year student may be renewable for two additional years, resulting in financial assistance totaling $15,000 during his or her time in law school.  Although each recipient will need to re-apply for the scholarship in his or her second and third year, the expectation is that the scholarship will be renewed each year if satisfactory performance in law school has been achieved, the student is otherwise eligible, and funding is available.

Before receiving scholarship funds, recipients will be required to demonstrate admission to and plans to enroll at an ABA-accredited law school.  Because the deadline for submitting applications is March 1, 2012, the applicant will have applied to law schools, but may not yet have been admitted to law school.  If the applicant is selected to receive an ABA Legal Opportunity Scholarship, he or she will be required to demonstrate admission to and plans to enroll at an ABA-accredited law school before receiving scholarship funds.

Scholarship Award:  $5,000 annually, up to $15,000 over three years of law school

Applications and Deadlines:  All completed applications must be placed on a flash drive and sent along with a hard copy and received on or before March 1, 2012.  To secure a word document of the application please visit:  ambar.org/DiversityScholarship

Thomas F. Black, Jr. Memorial Scholarship

The Rhode Island Bar Foundation is offering a one year, non-renewable award for full-time students who are Rhode Island residents entering their first year of law school in September 2012.  Each scholarship award will be made on the basis of demonstrated financial need, superior academic performance, community and public service, and demonstrated contacts with and commitment to the State of Rhode Island.  The Scholarship Committee seeks applications from candidates without regard to race, color, religion, country of ancestral origin, handicap, age, sex, or sexual orientation. 

Scholarship Award:  $20,000 (two scholarships will be awarded)

Applications and Deadlines:  Applications are available online.  The deadline for filing applications is March 19, 2012.

Get Prepped LSAT Prep Law School Scholarship

Get Prepped LSAT Preparation is offering grants of $1,000 to students enrolled in an accredited law school.  Class rank, degree/major classes, LSAT test scores, best short personal statement, and other review factors are used to determine awards.

Scholarship Award:  $1,000

Applications and Deadlines:  Applications are available by request through the contact form on the Get Prepped site.  Scholarships are awarded twice per year; deadlines for each are January 30, 2012 and June 30, 2012.

Michigan Auto Law Scholarship

Michigan Auto Law is pleased to sponsor an annual scholarship program to provide financial support to students who contribute to the diversity of the law school student body as they pursue their legal career.  The program is open to applicants meet the following requirements:

Scholarship Award: $2,000

Applications and Deadlines:  Applications are available online.  The deadline for filing applications is April 1, 2012.

AES Engineering Services Scholarship

AES Engineering Services is offering a scholarship that will be awarded based on character, as determined by applicant essays submitted.  This scholarship is available to students across a wide spectrum of fields of study; you are not required to be taking engineering courses to be eligible.

Students must submit an essay of no more than 1000 words in answer to the following question:  What are your dreams for the future?  When you look back on your life in thirty years, what would it take for you to consider your life successful?

Scholarship award:  $500

Applications and Deadlines:  There is no application for this scholarship.  Email your essay to scholarships@aesengineers.com and be sure to include your full name, the name of the school you are attending this year and your plans for next year.  The deadline for entry is October 5, 2012.

Vietnamese American Bar Association Scholarship

The Vietnamese American Bar Association of the Greater Washington DC Area is proud to sponsor up to two $1,000 scholarships for law students who have ties to the East Coast and who have demonstrated a commitment to serving the Vietnamese American communities in that region.  Scholarship recipients are selected on the basis of community service, academic performance, a written essay, and to a more limited extent, their connections to the Vietnamese American community on the East Coast.

Scholarship award:  $1,000 (two scholarships will be awarded)

Applications and Deadlines:  The application for this scholarship is available in the Office of Financial Aid.  Applications must be postmarked no later than March 9, 2012.

Massachusetts LGBTQ Bar Association - Alexander G. Gray, Jr. Scholarship

The Mass LGBTQ Bar is pleased to announce its sixth annual Alexander G. Gray, Jr. Scholarship Award in the amount of $2,500.  The Scholarship will be awarded to one law student for the 2012-2013 academic year to defray the costs associated with law school, such as tuition, fees, books and similar school-related expenses.  The scholarship will be awarded based on demonstration of commitment to and involvement in the LGBTQ community, leadership, maturity and responsibility.

Scholarship award:  $2,500

Applications and Deadlines:  Application materials are available online and must be received on or before February 17, 2012.

Women Trial Lawyers Caucus of the American Association for Justice - Mike Eidson Scholarship

The Mike Eidson Scholarship was established by the AAJ Women Trial Lawyers Caucus in 2008 and is traditionally given in the amount of $5,000.  The scholarship is awarded annually to a rising 3L (or rising 4L in a night program) female student who has demonstrated a commitment to a career as a plaintiffs' laywer or criminal defense lawyer, along with dedication to upholding and defending the principles of the Constitution, and to the concept of a fair trial, the adversary system, and a just result for the injured, the accused, and those whose rights are jeopardized.

Scholarship award: $5,000

Applications and Deadlines:  Applications are available in the Office of Financial Aid and must be received by May 31, 2012.

Patrick M. Butler Memorial Scholarship

The Patrick M. Butler Memorial Scholarship is for students who were residents of Cape Cod (Barnstable County) when they graduated from high school who have been accepted into or are currently attending an accredited law school and will be attending either part-time or full-time in the academic year immediately following the scholarship deadline.  Preference is for students from the Town of Barnstable.  One or two scholarships of $2,500 - $5,000 will be awarded this year.

Scholarship award:  One or two scholarships of $2,500-$5,000

Applications and Deadlines:  Applications are available online and must be received by midnight on April 2, 2012.

Howard Fox Memorial Law Scholarship

The Howard Fox Memorial Law Scholarship is a $3,000 award presented annually to help fund a deserving Berks County, Pennsylvania resident embarking on his or her second year at an accredited law school.  Applicants must demonstrate financial need.

Scholarship award:  $3,000

Applications and Deadlines:  Applications are available online and must be submitted electronically between January 15 and April 1, 2012.

Thomas M. McGovern Scholarships

The Thomas M. McGovern Education Endowment Trust Fund Scholarships are available to law students who have graduated from a high school in the Greater Fall River or Bristol County area.  Two scholarships will be awarded and shall be used for the purchase of or reimbursement of law books.  The residence of such students at the time of the application for the purchase or reimbursement of for their law books shall not be a factor, nor shall their selection of law school, so long as it is accredited by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts or the ABA.  Primary consideration shall be in the financial need of each potential beneficiary.  Recipients of the scholarship funds will be requested to, when qualified, volunteer for at least three pro bono cases for the Bristol County Probate and Family Court.  Preference is given to graduates of the following high schools, in the order named:  1) Joseph Case High School (Swansea, MA), 2) Parochial High Schools of Bristol County, 3) Somerset High School (Somerset, MA), and 4) Fall River High Schools (Fall River, MA). 

Scholarship award:  Fund for the reimbursement/purchase of law books (two scholarships will be awarded)

Applications and Deadlines:  Applications are available in the Office of Financial Aid.  The application deadline is April 15, 2012.

New England Employee Benefits Council

The NEEBC Scholarship Program offers an annual award of up to $5,000 for students interested in the employee benefits field for career opportunities.  This includes benefits-related areas such as:  health care program design; pension plan design, implementation or administration; retirement strategies; ERISA and legal aspects of employee benefits; work/life programs; health risk management; institutional investing of retirement savings; multiemployer plans; workers compensation; actuarial and underwriting analysis; employee benefits communications. 

Scholarship award:  $5,000

Applications and Deadlines:  Applications are available online and must be received by April 1, 2012.

Hudson County Bar Foundation Scholarship

The Hudson County Bar Foundation Scholarship is available for students who are residents of Hudson County, NJ.  All applicants must be enrolled in or admitted to an accredited ABA approved law school.  In addition to the application, a personal statement is required.

Applications and Deadlines:  Applications are available in the Office of Financial Aid.  The application deadline is April 30, 2012.