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Winstead Juris Doctor Scholarship
Winstead PC is proud to announce that, beginning January 9, 2012 it will begin accepting applications for the 2012 Winstead Juris Doctor Scholarship Awards.
Each year, Winstead awards three $20,000 scholarships to ethnically diverse first-year law students* – one to a student at each of The University of Texas School of Law, The University of Houston Law Center, and Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law. In addition to a cash award, each Scholarship recipient will be offered a position in the Firm’s 2013 Winstead Summer Associate Program.
Applications will be available beginning January 9, 2012, both on our website at www.winstead.com, and in the Financial Aid and Career Services offices at each participating law school. Applications are due no later than March 1, 2012. We will interview finalists in the second week of March 2012 and will notify scholarship recipients shortly after we have concluded our interviews. In early April, the Firm will host a reception for scholarship recipients and their immediate families.
Each scholarship winner will receive up to $20,000, distributed as follows: (i) $1,500 to be presented to each winner at the formal reception in April 2012; (2) $1,500 to be awarded to the law student interest group of the scholarship recipient’s choosing (e.g. BLSA, ALSA, APLSA, CHLSA, TMLS, etc.); (3) a $3,500 signing bonus at the beginning of the summer associate’s clerkship at Winstead, if the scholarship recipient accepts the summer associate position; and (4) a $13,500 signing bonus on the start of a full time position with Winstead if an offer of full-time employment is made and accepted.**
Winstead’s Juris Doctor Scholarship Program is just one way in which the Firm demonstrates a strong commitment to diversity in the legal profession. Each year, the Firm participates on career panels at schools and reaches out to leadership and members of minority bar associations and student organizations. Because diversity requires not just ideas, but action and support, Winstead actively participates in a number of key organizations and events, including the JL Turner Legal Association, the Minority Corporate Counsel Association and the Texas Minority Counsel Program. Please visit www.winstead.com for a complete list of the diversity-related organizations, recruitment activities and outreach programs we are proud to support.
Contact:
Dominique L. Anderson, Director of Attorney Recruitment
Winstead PC
5400 Renaissance Tower
1201 Elm Street
Dallas, Texas 75270
danderson@winstead.com
* Part-time and joint degree students are eligible to apply for the scholarship upon completion of the number of credit hours that are equivalent to the hours required for the first semester of a full-time, first-year law student. Part-time and joint degree students will be offered a summer associate position for the summer immediately prior to the student’s last year in his or her law school program.
** During the Summer Associate Program, Winstead will evaluate scholarship recipients on the same basis as all other summer associates. The Firm will have sole discretion to determine whether or not to extend a fulltime position to any of the scholarship winners at the end of their summer employment. |