{"id":20209,"date":"2021-08-06T14:11:05","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T19:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/?p=20209"},"modified":"2021-08-06T14:11:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T19:11:05","slug":"appellate-project-mentorship-program-application-due-september-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/appellate-project-mentorship-program-application-due-september-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Appellate Project Mentorship Program Application due September 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_x_MsoNormal\">The\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/lwic.mobilize.io\/links?lid=RZce0ov77OqnT-rgd14TJQ&amp;token=G1IuTvl_Kc10F-4VDQdWgA&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Ftheappellateproject.org%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\">Appellate Project<\/a>, a non-profit dedicated to increasing diversity in the appellate bar, has an opportunity for current and future students (incoming 1Ls to current 3Ls\/4Es).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_x_MsoNormal\">The <strong>Appellate Project Mentorship Program<\/strong> is &#8220;the first national effort focused on empowering law students of color to pursue appellate work.&#8221;<i>\u00a0<\/i>The program pairs current law students with mentors in the appellate field (judges, practitioners, etc.). It also provides resources including &#8220;clerkship support, networking opportunities with the appellate bar, skill-building workshops, and guidance on appellate job opportunities.&#8221; The program is relatively new but growing rapidly under the leadership of the founder\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lwic.mobilize.io\/links?lid=RZce0ov77OqnT-rgd14TJQ&amp;token=G1IuTvl_Kc10F-4VDQdWgA&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Ftheappellateproject.org%2Four-team-v2-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"1\">Juvaria Khan<\/a>\u00a0and a prominent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lwic.mobilize.io\/links?lid=RZce0ov77OqnT-rgd14TJQ&amp;token=G1IuTvl_Kc10F-4VDQdWgA&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Ftheappellateproject.org%2Four-team-v2-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"2\">Board of Directors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_x_MsoNormal\">The program flyer can be found here: <a href=\"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/2021-TAP-Mentorship-Program.pdf\">2021 TAP Mentorship Program<\/a>. For more information, go to the\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/lwic.mobilize.io\/links?lid=RZce0ov77OqnT-rgd14TJQ&amp;token=G1IuTvl_Kc10F-4VDQdWgA&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Ftheappellateproject.org%2Fmentorship-program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"3\">Appellate Project&#8217;s Mentorship Program website<\/a>.\u00a0<strong> The application is due<\/strong>\u00a0<strong><span class=\"x_x_sh-date\">September 6, 2021<\/span>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0 Appellate Project, a non-profit dedicated to increasing diversity in the appellate bar, has an opportunity for current and future students&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career-services"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20209","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20209"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20215,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20209\/revisions\/20215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}