Resources for JD Students: Scholarships, Fellowships, Grants Information
There are many great resources for finding external scholarships, so we encourage you to do your own search. Specifically, AccessLex has a fantastic database of law school scholarship opportunities that you can find here. Below is a list of other resources available to JD students. This is not an exhaustive list. Deadlines vary, and if a deadline has already passed, check the organization’s website periodically to learn when the next cycle will take place.
- ABA Legal Opportunity Scholarship: Available to incoming diverse law students incoming and current law students.
- ABA LGBT Public Interest Scholarship: Available to incoming and current students.
- Alfred & Clara May Truitt Memorial Fund: Available to incoming and current students who are residents of Somerset, Wicomico, or Worcester County, MD.
- American Association on Health and Disability: Available to students with a disability who are pursuing graduate studies.
- American Indian College Fund: Available to students pursuing a graduate degree.
- American Indian Graduate Center: Various scholarships are available for graduate studies.
- American Intellectual Property Law Education Foundation: The Sidney B. Williams, Jr. Scholarships are intended for incoming students and current students committed to a career in intellectual property law.
- Animal Legal Defense Fund Advancement of Animal Law: Available to law student members of ALDF student chapters.
- Antonoplos & Associates Legal Scholarship: Available to incoming and current students
- Arent Fox Diversity Scholarship: Available to rising 2Ls.
- Bajaj Law Scholarship: Available to incoming or current law students.
- Barbri One Lawyer Can Change the World Scholarship: Available to incoming law students.
- Baumgartner Law Firm Law Student Scholarship Application: Available to incoming or current students.
- BerlikLaw, LLC: Available to current law students.
- Buckfire Law School Diversity Scholarship: Open to students who are a member of an ethic, racial or other minority or demonstrate commitment to issues of diversity within their community.
- Bunch & Brock Legal Scholarship Award: Available to incoming law students.
- Champion the Cause Law School Scholarship: Available to incoming or current law students.
- Charles E. Joseph Employment Law Scholarship: Available in incoming or current law students.
- Charles T. Stoner Law Scholarship Award: Available to senior, female collegiate basketball player, intending to pursue law.
- Citywide Law Group: Available to incoming or current law students.
- Constantine Cannon Law School Scholarship: Avialable to incoming and current students.
- Denver Trial Lawyers Annual Scholarship Contest: Available to incoming and current students
- Donald W. Banner Diversity Scholarship: Available to law students who are committed to a career in IP law.
- DRI Law Student Diversity Scholarship: Available to rising 2Ls and 3Ls.
- Duffy Law, LLC Scholarship: Available to incoming or current students
- Earl Warren Scholarships: Available to incoming students.
- Empowering Women in Law Scholarship by The Pearce Law Firm: Available to women attending law school.
- FDCC Barb Currie Diversity Scholarship - Available to incoming students
- Federal Communications Bar Association Foundation: Available to rising 2L and 3Ls, interested in communications law.
- Freeman & Freeman, LLP: Law student planning on attending, accepted to attend, or currently attending an accredited law school in the U.S.
- GAR Disabiity Advocates: Available to incoming and enrolled students
- George N. Nofer Scholarship: Available to incoming and enrolled students who are deaf or heard of hearing
- Goodman Acker P.C. Law School Scholarship: Available to incoming and current students
- Hembree Bell Law Firm, PLLC: Available to incoming and current students
- Hispanic Scholarship Fund: Available to students pursuing a graduate degree.
- Incorporated Society of Irish American Lawyers: Available to current law students.
- Iranian American Bar Association: Available to current law students of Iranian heritage.
- Janet D. Steiger Fellowship Project: Available to 1L and 2L students.
- J. Franklyn Bourne Scholarship Fund, Inc.: Available to current law students.
- Japanese American Bar Association: Various scholarships are available for law students.
- The Keith Williams Law Group Semi-Annual Scholarship: Available to incoming or current students.
- Kohlmeyer Hagen Law Office: Available to incoming and current students
- Korean American Scholarship Foundation: Available to incoming and current students.
- The Law Offices of Steven H. Heisler: Available to incoming students
- The Levin Firm Scholarship: Available to incoming or current students.
- Laura Bassi Scholarship: Available to master's and doctoral candidates, as well as junior academics.
- LexisNexis Scholarship: Available for Law Preview Legal Research & Writing Workshop.
- Levinson Law Group Scholarship: Available to incoming students.
- LMJ Scholarship Propgram - Open to incoming first year students.
- Mandour Law Trademark Scholarship: Available to incoming students and current students.
- Mark T. Banner Scholarship: Available to current law students interested in intellectual property.
- Marshall Motley Scholarship Program: Available to incoming students
- Maryland Association for Justice Scholarship: Available to current students of Maryland Carey Law only.
- Maryland Delegate Scholarship: Available to Maryland residents.
- Maryland Graduate and Professional Scholarship Program: Available to Maryland residents.
- Maryland Senatorial Scholarship: Available to Maryland residents.
- MCCA LMJ Scholarship: Available to incoming law students.
- McGuireWoods Diversity Scholarship Program: Available to current first-year law students.
- Meldon Law College Scholarship Essay Contest: Available to incoming students.
- Mesriani Law Group Scholarship Grant: Available to incoming and current law students.
- Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund Law School Scholarship Program: Available to all law students enrolled full time.
- Michael Weiner Scholarship Application: Available to incoming and current students.
- Mike Eidson Scholarship from the American Association for Justice: Available to rising 3D or 4E female students.
- Milestone Trial LawHER Scholarship: Available to rising 3L female students.
- Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA) Lloyd M. Johnson, Jr. Scholarship Program: Available to incoming 1Ls.
- Michigan Auto Law Diversity Scholarship: Available to incoming or current students.
- Ms. JD Fellowship: Available to 2Ls.
- Ms. JD: Offers summer public interest scholarships.
- NAMWOLF Joel Stern Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Pipeline Scholarship: Available to rising 2L and 3L students. Contact scholarship@namwolf.org.
- National Asian Pacific American Bar Association: Available to current law students.
- National Council on International Trade Development: Available to current students.
- National Italian American Bar Association & Sons of Italy Foundation Scholarship: Available to incoming or current law students.
- Neal Davis Law Scholarship Essay Contest: Available to incoming or current law students.
- Patrick Malone Law School Scholarship: Available to incoming and current law students interested in public service.
- The Plaxen and Adler Scholarship: Available to law students interested in civil trial advocacy
- Point Foundation The National LGBTQ Scholarship Fund: Available to current students.
- Randolph Rice College Scholarship: Available to current or prospective college or law students.
- The Reeves Law Group Scholarship: Available to current law students or undergraduates in their senior year who have applied or will apply to law school.
- Richard D. Hailey AAJ (American Association for Justice) Law Student Scholarships: Available to incoming and current students.
- The Robert Masur Fellowship in Civil Liberties: Available to first-year law students.
- Robert Shuker Scholarship Fund: Available to current law students.
- Sarita and Claire Wright Lucas Foundation Scholarship: Available to graduating African-American female law students.
- Scrofano Law Scholarship - Available to incoming and second year law students
- Simeone & Miller, LLP Scholarship: Available to incoming and current law students.
- The Federal Circuit Bar Association: Available to incoming or current law students.
- The HNBA Legal Education Fund: Available to incoming or current law students.
- TruFit Good Citizen Scholarship: Available to students pursuing a graduate degree.
- United Negro College Fund: The UNCF offers various scholarships and fellowships to incoming and current law school students.
- V&E Diversity Fellowships: Available to incoming or current law students.
- Varghese Summersett Criminal Justice Scholarship: Available to incoming or current law students.
- Vietnamese American Bar Association of the Greater Washington DC area: Available to current law students.
- Whitney, LLP Scholarship: Available to incoming and current law students.
- YCBF Richard P. Noll Scholarship: Available to deserving need-based law students from the greater york area. Contact victoria.connor@yorkbar.com for the application.