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Street Law, Inc. and the Law School Admission Council (LSAC) have developed an initiative to address the need for diversity within the law school applicant pool and legal profession at large. Ten law schools with active Street Law programs are currently participating in the initiative. These sites have enhanced their practical legal education programs to include diversity pipeline components – to encourage young people of color to pursue legal careers.
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Many law schools around the country have public legal education, or Street Law, programs in place. Each of these places law students in high schools or other community settings to teach about practical law. Law students focus on building knowledge and skills among the groups they teach. For more information, visit the law school-based program pages.
This program helps the pre-existing Street Law programs at several law schools adapt their approaches as a way to enhance diversity in the legal profession. The aim is to encourage high school students of color to pursue higher education and legal careers. Research shows that students are more likely to pursue careers for which they have positive role models, an informed understanding of the pathway to that career, and a sense that they possess the skills necessary to succeed in that career.
In order to address these factors, Street Law designed a program with ten law schools to add career-focused components to their existing law-school programs where law students teach practical law to high school students. Through training and technical assistance from Street Law, these programs added lessons, field trips, workshops and other activities designed to teach the high school students about legal careers and career pathways, allow them to participate in skill-building activities, and interact with their partner law students as career role models.
The following schools participated in the 2006-08 pilot program:
The Curriculum and Handbook has all the resources needed to add a diversity pipeline element to your Street Law program! Find guides to training, activities, lesson plans, fundraising, evaluation, and more.
To access the Curriculum, you must first Curriculum and Handbook page to download the entire book or individual lessons and Tip Sheets.
Law School Diversity Pipeline: Evaluation Summary
Sample Media Release Form
Sample Student Reflections - Event v. 1
Sample Student Reflections - Event v. 2
October 13, 2009 Just one hour before the mock trials are set to begin, the tenth and eleventh grade students are working furiously—polishing opening statements, reviewing witness questions, jotting down notes. Read more
September 17, 2009 Elizabeth Finn Johnson has been with The Coca-Cola Company’s legal division since 1990. She is senior counsel, litigation and employment, and leads her division’s participation in the Street Law/ACC Corporate Legal Diversity Pipeline Program. Read more
May 20, 2009 Is your school one of the more than 100 law schools around the world with a public legal education program? Street Law, Inc. is surveying emerging and existing programs in which law students teach practical law to the public in school and community-based settings. Read more
April 30, 2009 In late 2006, the RWU Law was selected as one of just ten law schools nationwide to participate in a Street Law initiative that supports the law school's efforts to incorporate activities and mentoring for young people of color, and encourage them to consider legal careers. Read more
February 17, 2009 Street Law, Inc. and independent consultant Wendy Richardson, PhD, recently completed an evaluation of the Law School Diversity Pipeline program, a partnership between Street Law and the Law School Admission Council (LSAC). Read more
July 1, 2007 Street Law, Inc. and the Law School Admission Council (LSAC) have developed an initiative to address the need for diversity within the law school applicant pool and legal profession at large. The legal profession lags well behind other fields when it comes to minority representation. Total minority representation among lawyers is about 9.7%, compared to 20.8% among accountants and auditors, 24.6% among physicians and surgeons, and 18.2% among college and university teachers. Read more
April 1, 2007 The organized bar is concerned about the lack of racial and ethnic diversity among lawyers. some law students are responding by participating in programs that introduce minority children, teens, and college students to the legal profession Read more
September 1, 2006 Thanks to generous funding from the Law School Admission Council (LSAC), Street Law, Inc. will partner with ten law schools to help diversify the legal profession. Law schools that have a Street Law program – where law students teach local high school classes about practical law – will develop a career choice component designed to encourage students of color to continue their education and pursue legal careers. Read more
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