{"id":5835,"date":"2016-05-05T14:34:56","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T19:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onlegalgrounds.law.memphis.edu\/wordpress\/?p=5835"},"modified":"2016-05-05T14:34:56","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T19:34:56","slug":"2017-baker-donelson-diversity-scholarship-application-is-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/2017-baker-donelson-diversity-scholarship-application-is-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 Baker Donelson Diversity Scholarship Application Is Now Available!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><b><i><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';font-size: 14pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Application deadline is June\u00a017, 2016.<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';font-size: 14pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';font-size: 14pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Baker Donelson is committed to fostering an inclusive environment where the individual differences among us are understood, respected, appreciated,\u00a0and recognized as sources of strength of the Firm.\u00a0These qualities\u00a0enrich the environment in which we work. With this in mind, Baker Donelson will\u00a0again award three scholarships to diverse law students\u00a0who will complete their first year of law school by June 2016. Recipients will be awarded a\u00a0six-week,\u00a0salaried 2L Summer Associate position for the summer of 2017 in one of our Firm\u2019s offices.\u00a0Additionally, each recipient will be awarded $10,000 which will be paid\u00a0prior to the student&#8217;s third year of law school to help defray the cost of law school tuition and related expenses.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';font-size: 14pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';font-size: 14pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">For complete eligibility criteria, instructions, and\u00a0to apply for the Scholarship Program\u00a0please visit:<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b><span style=\"color: #1f497d;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';font-size: 14pt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bakerdonelson.com\/diversity-scholarship-diversity-practices\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">http:\/\/www.bakerdonelson.com\/diversity-scholarship-diversity-practices\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';font-size: 14pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Please do not hesitate to contact\u00a0Helen Beasley with questions at <\/span><a title=\"mailto:hbeasley@bakerdonelson.com\" href=\"mailto:hbeasley@bakerdonelson.com\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">hbeasley@bakerdonelson.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\">.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Application deadline is June\u00a017, 2016. \u00a0Baker Donelson is committed to fostering an inclusive environment where the individual differences among us are&#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":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5835","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\/5835","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=5835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5836,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5835\/revisions\/5836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}