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SCHOLARSHIPS We understand that paying for school is an important factor in your decision-making process. At Memphis Law, we are committed to helping students minimize costs. Our tuition compares favorably to other public law schools; and our downtown location, within walking distance to most students’ apartments and homes with inexpensive parking nearby, makes it possible to keep living expenses reasonable in a city hailed by many national publications as being one of the most affordable in the country.

A number of scholarships are available to entering students, including academic merit awards, diversity awards and awards for students with demonstrated financial need. Some scholarship awards are based on the information provided in the application, while others require additional information. If you are interested in being considered for first-year scholarships, you are encouraged to complete the optional application questions and submit any necessary information. Scholarship award letters are usually sent by April 1.

Through state appropriations and the generous donations of law school alumni and friends, over $600,000 in scholarship assistance has traditionally been awarded in previous academic years. Awards range from $1,000 to full in-state tuition. EXTENDED EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES

Alternative Spring Break Legal Methods

Having recently celebrated Our rigorous required it’s 10-year anniversary first-year legal research, as the first student-led writing and analysis spring break program course gives students in the country to recruit excellent preparation for from law schools across the increasing complexity the country, this weekof practice in today’s long program, run by our legal environment. Public Action Law Society, seeks to help low-income individuals needing legal representation while also providing law students the opportunity to gain legal experience. Mediation Under the guidance of one of the Mid-South’s highly regarded Rule 31 Listed Mediators, students get real world experience being co-mediators in Pro Bono General Sessions Court, as Memphis Law is one of a well as actual Tennessee select group of law schools Supreme Court Rule 31 in the country that requires Mediator training and students to engage in ongoing observations pro bono work. Students of mediations in various are required to complete courts and administrative 40 hours of supervised proceedings. pro bono work in order to graduate, giving them unique opportunities throughout Memphis while strengthening their ties to the community. Mock Trial Memphis Law gives students the opportunity to take their advocacy skills to the next level with both an in-school mock Law Review trial competition and a Our prestigious, studenthistorically successful run journal of legal National Mock Trial scholarship is published Competition travel team. four times a year with student editors making all editorial decisions, along with a faculty advisor, and drawing submissions by prominent academics from across the country. Moot Court Our Moot Court program excels in both appellate and trial advocacy, with many in-school and travel-team competitions under its purview.

Tax Workshops

More than 100 federal tax returns were filed by students in our Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program last year.

Street Law

Our Street Law program currently serves two local inner-city schools where student members and professors teach on a weekly or monthly basis. Their role is to engage the students around topics of law, democracy, human rights and local issues, all while bridging the gap between today’s youth and the law, and to inspire students on to professional careers.

Medical-Legal Partnership

The University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law, Memphis Area Legal Services (MALS), the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and Le Bonheur Children's Hospital form the Memphis CHiLD (Children's Health Law Directive), the first medical-legal partnership of its kind in the region, encompassing all of Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi.

In addition to a variety of training programs and educational, bidirectional partnerships, Memphis CHiLD also consists of an on-site Legal Clinic located at Le Bonheur Children's Hospital where Memphis law students, working under the supervision of a devoted clinical professor and a MALS staff attorney, have devoted space to work on cases and referrals, meet with patients/ clients and conduct training sessions. Medical professionals and Le Bonheur residents have access to the clinic as well, and have direct involvement in the Memphis CHiLD Legal Clinic training sessions and learning opportunities available through the program.

PARTNERSHIPS & PROGRAMS Institute for Health Law down complex legal issues for & Policy (iHeLP) diverse, non-law audiences and The Institute for Health Law have the foresight to identify & Policy at the University of and potentially avert future Memphis is an innovative leader legal issues. They represent a in educating the next generation vision of preventive, relational of health lawyers, equipping lawyering attuned to the utmost them with the knowledge professionalism and highest and skills to advance health ethical standards in dealing through law and policy. with clients, affected parties, The Institute for Health Law & organizations and the community. Policy has a core mission designed Critically, they also recognize the to prepare the next generation role of law as a service profession, of health lawyers for practice and the need for lawyers who are in today's complex and everready, willing and able to engage changing health care environment in and with the community, and also with the skill set and beyond their own clients, to dexterity to adapt practice to the advance the community's health issues and needs of tomorrow. through use of law and policy.

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