Law student enrollment increases
Roughly 39% of Scholarship recipients are the first in their family to attend college and 70% are the first to attend graduate school.
ABA Legal Opportunity Scholarship Fund
Your generosity helps underrepresented law students earn their juris doctor and enter the legal profession.
Celebrating 25 Years!
The ABA has an enduring commitment to equity in legal education and in the legal profession.
Since its start 25 years ago, the ABA Legal Opportunity Scholarship Fund has been awarding up to 20 students each year with a $15,000 award, payable over the three years of law school, to offset the significant costs of a law degree. Emblematic of this determination that underserved and underrepresented communities attain full access to justice, the Scholarship Fund helps to break down financial barriers to law school and open the legal profession’s door to passionate young people from underserved and underrepresented communities.
YOU CAN CHANGE THE FACE OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION
With your support of the ABA Legal Opportunity Scholarship Fund, we will continue to improve the legal profession — first in our nation’s law schools and, ultimately, throughout the ranks of our profession. You are helping underrepresented lawyers enter the field of law. Please invest in the future of the legal profession. Your gift, of any amount, will change lives.
Make Your Gift - DonateDonors empower Scholarship Fund recipients to excel in their studies and add public service to their law school experience.
Financial assistance removes barriers to a JD
ABA Scholars (75%) indicate that they could not have finished law school without the Scholarship Fund.
Graduates go on to serve their communities
Most recipients eagerly take part in pro bono activities that give back to their marginalized community or to their law school.
Know an Aspiring Law Student?
For more information about the ABA Legal Opportunity Scholarship application process visit the Legal Opportunity Scholarship Fund FAQs webpage.
Hundreds of Scholars Changing the Profession
The American Bar Association awards an annual Legal Opportunity Scholarship to first-year law students. These scholarships encourage underrepresented students to apply to law school and provides financial assistance while these scholars earn their Juris Doctor. Generous donors make this Scholarship possible.