See scholarship announcement below and read profile for last year’s recipient–Loyola’s very own student ambassador extraordinaire, Amanda Walsh!
The Chicago Bar Foundation (CBF) is now accepting applications for its 2012 Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Public Interest Law Scholarship. The CBF’s Marovitz Scholarship is intended to support a needy law student who is deeply committed to public interest work so that financial need will not prevent the student from pursuing a legal aid or public interest law career upon graduation.
The CBF awards the Marovitz Scholarship annually to one incoming first-year student attending one of the nine Illinois law schools (Chicago-Kent, DePaul, John Marshall, Loyola, Northern Illinois, Northwestern, Southern Illinois, University of Chicago, and University of Illinois). These funds, payable over a three-year period, will enable an incoming student who intends to pursue a career in public interest law to have a significant portion of his or her tuition and related expenses covered by scholarship funding. Contingent upon the recipient’s continued compliance with the terms of the Scholarship, the student will receive a total of $40,000 in scholarship funds disbursed as follows: $10,000 in the first year of law school, $15,000 in the second year, and $15,000 in the third year.
I’ve attached the Guidelines and Application, which are also available at http://www.chicagobarfoundation.org/marovitz-scholarship/how-to-apply. Please share this information with prospective applicants who meet the scholarship requirements. Applications are due on Friday, May 11, 2012, and the recipient will be announced midsummer.
Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions about the CBF’s Marovitz Scholarship. Thank you for helping us distribute this information to potential candidates.
Warm regards,
Ryanne Easley
Director of Grants
The Chicago Bar Foundation
321 S. Plymouth Ct., Suite 3B
Chicago, IL 60604
312.554.1247
reasley@chicagobar.org
www.chicagobarfoundation.org