{"id":33985,"date":"2024-10-01T11:38:21","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T16:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/?p=33985"},"modified":"2024-10-01T11:38:21","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T16:38:21","slug":"tba-yld-diversity-leadership-institute-now-accepting-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/tba-yld-diversity-leadership-institute-now-accepting-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"TBA-YLD Diversity Leadership Institute: Now Accepting Applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TBA-YLD Diversity Leadership Institute: Now Accepting Applications<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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. 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 12-15 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, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, background, geographical factors and law schools attended. <strong>Deadline to apply is November 3 at 5pm CST. <\/strong>All applicants must attend a mandatory information meeting on November 6th\u00a0at 5:30pm CDT via Zoom.<\/p>\n<p>For more information please visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tba.org\/index.cfm?pg=diversity-leadership-institute\">TBA-YLD Diversity Leadership Institute<\/a>\u00a0website. <strong><u>Apply <\/u><\/strong><strong><u><a href=\"https:\/\/memcentral.wufoo.com\/forms\/q5c8qli08w9jf6\/\">here<\/a><\/u><\/strong><strong><u>\u00a0for the Diversity Leadership Institute Class of 2025<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TBA-YLD Diversity Leadership Institute: Now Accepting Applications &nbsp; The Tennessee Bar Association Young Lawyers Division&#8217;s Diversity Leadership Institute (DLI) is a&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":520,"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,"_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":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33985","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\/520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33985"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33987,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33985\/revisions\/33987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}