{"id":1164,"date":"2014-10-22T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T16:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onlegalgrounds.law.memphis.edu\/wordpress\/?p=1164"},"modified":"2014-10-22T11:34:32","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T16:34:32","slug":"diversity-leadership-institute-informational-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/diversity-leadership-institute-informational-session\/","title":{"rendered":"NOON TODAY: DIVERSITY LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE INFORMATIONAL SESSION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Office of Diversity will host an informational session and presentation on how you can apply to be a part of the Tennessee Bar Association&#8217;s Diversity Leadership Institute.\u00a0 You will hear from previous Memphis Law participants and the current Chair, Ahsaki Baptist, of Wyatt, Tarrant, &amp; Combs.<\/p>\n<p>The Tennessee Bar Association Young Lawyers Division&#8217;s Diversity Leadership Institute (DLI) is a six-month leadership and mentoring program for Tennessee law students in their second, third or fourth years of study. Now in its fifth year, the program is designed to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Develop skills to succeed as a law student and attorney;<\/li>\n<li>Empower students to contribute more to the legal community;<\/li>\n<li>Match students to mentors in a diverse variety of practice areas; and<\/li>\n<li>Build relationships among students of diverse backgrounds<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Class size is limited to a total of 20 to 25 students selected from across the state. The goal of the program is to have a diverse class, so selection is based in part on race, ethnicity, gender, age, background, geographical factors and law schools attended. To learn more about the program <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tba.org\/sites\/default\/files\/dli_handout_2014.pdf\">CLICK HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please join us in Rm. 233 on October 22nd at noon.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2014 DLI Class<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/2014_DLI_Class_0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1166\" src=\"http:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/2014_DLI_Class_0-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"2014_DLI_Class_0\" width=\"448\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/2014_DLI_Class_0-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/2014_DLI_Class_0.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Office of Diversity will host an informational session and presentation on how you can apply to be a part of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recruitment-student-success"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1164"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1264,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions\/1264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}