{"id":3791,"date":"2015-10-09T12:00:04","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T17:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onlegalgrounds.law.memphis.edu\/wordpress\/?p=3791"},"modified":"2015-10-12T14:14:25","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T19:14:25","slug":"2016-diversity-leadership-institute-information-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/2016-diversity-leadership-institute-information-session\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 Diversity Leadership Institute Information Session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">The Student Affairs Office of Diversity will host an info session on how you can be a part of the<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Tennessee Bar Association&#8217;s Diversity Leadership Institute (DLI)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16TH @ NOON in ROOM 127.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">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 sixth year, the program is designed to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">Develop skills to succeed as a law student and attorney;<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">Empower students to contribute more to the legal community;<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">Match students to mentors in a diverse variety of practice areas; and<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">Build relationships among students of diverse backgrounds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">At this info session you will hear from Diversity Committee Chairperson Amber Floyd of Wyatt, Tarrant, &amp; Combs and from former DLI participants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Pizza will be provided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Student Affairs Office of Diversity will host an info session on how you can be a part of the Tennessee&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"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":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stud-affairs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3791","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=3791"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3995,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3791\/revisions\/3995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}