{"id":34418,"date":"2024-10-30T12:58:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T17:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/?p=34418"},"modified":"2024-10-30T12:58:01","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T17:58:01","slug":"diversity-leadership-institute-application-deadline-11-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/diversity-leadership-institute-application-deadline-11-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Diversity Leadership Institute -Application Deadline 11\/3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;color: black\">TBA-YLD Diversity Leadership Institute: Now Accepting Applications<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;color: black\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 21.0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;color: black\">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:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 54.75pt;text-indent: -.25in;line-height: 19.2pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: Symbol;color: black\">\u00b7<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 7.0pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;color: black\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;color: black\">Develop skills to succeed as a law student and attorney;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 54.75pt;text-indent: -.25in;line-height: 19.2pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: Symbol;color: black\">\u00b7<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 7.0pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;color: black\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;color: black\">Empower students to contribute more to the legal community;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 54.75pt;text-indent: -.25in;line-height: 19.2pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: Symbol;color: black\">\u00b7<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 7.0pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;color: black\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;color: black\">Match students to mentors in a diverse variety of practice areas; and<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 54.75pt;text-indent: -.25in;line-height: 19.2pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: Symbol;color: black\">\u00b7<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 7.0pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;color: black\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;color: black\">Build relationships among students of diverse backgrounds<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 21.0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;color: black\">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. <b>Deadline to apply is November 3 at 5pm CST. <\/b>All applicants must attend a mandatory information meeting on November 6th\u00a0at 5:30pm CDT via Zoom.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 21.0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;color: black\">For more information please visit the <\/span><u><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;color: blue\"><a title=\"https:\/\/www.tba.org\/index.cfm?pg=diversity-leadership-institute\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tba.org\/index.cfm?pg=diversity-leadership-institute\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">TBA-YLD Diversity Leadership Institute<\/a><\/span><\/u><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;color: black\">\u00a0website. <b><u>Apply <\/u><\/b><\/span><b><u><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;color: #cb462a\"><a href=\"https:\/\/memcentral.wufoo.com\/forms\/q5c8qli08w9jf6\/\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\"><span style=\"color: #cb462a\">here<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/u><\/b><b><u><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;color: black\">\u00a0for the Diversity Leadership Institute Class of 2025<\/span><\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;color: black\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TBA-YLD Diversity Leadership Institute: Now Accepting Applications \u00a0 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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34418","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\/34418","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=34418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34420,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34418\/revisions\/34420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}