This year the Black Women Lawyers Association will award scholarship(s) to second and third year full-time law students as well as fourth year law students enrolled in night programs who intend to practice law in California. Recipients are selected on the basis of financial need, community service, academic achievement and legal writing ability.

Completed applications must be postmarked no later than March 5, 2010. Successful applicants will be recognized at the Black Women Lawyer’s Foundation Luncheon at the Sheraton Delfina in Los Angeles, California, May 1, 2010

The application is available at http://www.blackwomenlawyersla.org/.

The Rhode Island Bar Foundation “Thomas F. Black, Jr. Memorial Scholarship” is a one year, non-renewable award for full-time students who are Rhode Island residents entering their first year of law school in September 2010.

Scholarship awards shall be exclusively for tuition and related expenses for persons who enroll as full-time students in programs leading to the award of the L.L.B. or J.D. degree offered by law schools located in one of the United States or District of Columbia and accredited by the American Bar Association. Each scholarship will be made on the basis of demonstrated financial need, superior academic performance, community and public service, and demonstrated contacts with and commitment to the State of Rhode Island.

For more information, please contact the Rhode Island Bar Foundation office at (401) 421-6541 or e-mail: gcaldwell@ribar.com

* Deadline: received by March 19, 2010
* Award: 2 awards for $15,000 each
* Website and Application: http://ribar.com/foundation/scholarships.asp

The Community Foundation Sonoma County will be awarding the Michael F. O’Donnell Memorial Scholarship in the sum of $2,500.00 to students currently enrolled in law school or pursuing a law-related career, for the Foundation’s 2010 Scholarship Program.

Interested applicants for the scholarship must:
1. Have your permanent address in Sonoma County or have attended a high school located in Sonoma County.

2. Submit a completed application to the Community Foundation Sonoma County no later than 5:00p.m. March 1, 2010.

The application and additional information are located on the Foundation’s web site, www.sonomacf.org. The application must be completed online and should be submitted to the Community Foundation office with an official transcript and any supplemental materials, if required.
Questions? Please contact Dana Johnson, Program Associate, Community Foundation Sonoma County, 250 D Street, Suite 205, Santa Rosa, California 95404, or (707) 579-4073.

In 1978 the Howard Fox Memorial Law Scholarship Fund was established by Helen and Richard Fox and Friends to honor the memory of their son who, as a proud member of the Berks County Bar Association, Pennsylvania, served as a young attorney in the Public Defender’s Office.

In June 2000, the Howard Fox Memorial Law Scholarship Fund was transferred to the Berks County Community Foundation to manage and administer. The award of $3,000 is presented annually at the Berks County Bar Association Law Day Event. It is given to help fund a deserving Berks county, Pennsylvania, resident embarking on his or her second year at an accredited Law School.

Please refer to the website, www.bccf.org for the application. Completed applications must be submitted to Berks County Community Foundation between January 15 and April 1st.

Berkeley Law is working to develop an official Energy & Clean Technology program. As part of that, there is a proposal to create a student scholarship seminar in which law students would earn credit for writing publishable-quality papers relating to energy and clean technology. Because of the inter-disciplinary nature of this field, the resulting papers may be published in some format as a collaboration of the BTLJ, ELQ and BBLJ student journals, with the possible assistance of BERC@Boalt.

ALL Berkeley Law students are encouraged to please fill out this questionnaire so that we can gauge student interest and to determine viable formats for a new seminar.

Thank you for taking a few moments out of your time. If you have any questions, you may direct them to barker-ball@berkeley.edu.

The Human Rights Center announces its annual competition for student fellowships with human rights organizations in the United States and abroad. Registered students at UC Berkeley, Graduate Theological Union, UC Davis, Hastings College of Law, UC Irvine, UC Santa Cruz, and UC San Diego are eligible, with priority given to graduate and returning students.

The fellowship includes a stipend of $4,500. The awards will enable students to carry out clearly defined human rights-related fieldwork during summer 2010 with specific governmental or non-governmental organizations related to the student’s area of study.

A completed application consists of 4 collated sets of the following materials: 1) Application cover sheet; 2) Curriculum Vitae/resume; 3) A 2–5 page statement of purpose; 4) Recommendation letters from 2 faculty members; and, 5) Letter from the sponsoring organization.

Fellowship applications are available online at http://hrc.berkeley.edu or at the Human Rights Center, 460 Stephens Hall.

Completed applications must be submitted to the Human Rights Center by 4:00pm on February 25, 2010.

For further information about the fellowships, please see our website at http://hrc.berkeley.edu.

The Berkeley Technology Law Journal is soliciting entries for our annual student writing competition. We will accept submissions from J.D. candidates across the country, including from Berkeley law, on a wide variety of topics at the intersection of law and technology, including but not limited to: intellectual property, antitrust, First Amendment, entertainment and new media, telecommunications, biotechnology, internet, and cybercrime. First prize includes $2,000. The winning article will also be published in the Fall 2010 issue if it meets the Journal’s publication standards. The submission deadline is February 26, 2010.

Please e-mail btljwritingcompetition@gmail.com with questions or for additional information.

Submissions should be submitted with a cover sheet that can be requested by email or downloaded from http://www.btlj.org/submissions/competition.php and comply with the following rules:

Papers must be no more than 50 pages long, including footnotes. Do NOT use endnotes. Margins should be 1”, minimum. Body text must be double-spaced. Font must be Times New Roman or a similar serif font, and 12 point. Footnotes may be 10 pt and single-spaced but there should be a space between notes. Citations must conform to the 18th Ed. of The Bluebook. The author’s name should not appear anywhere on the paper. Only one entry will be accepted per person.

Dear Fellow Boalties:

The Berkeley Business Law Journal (BBLJ) is pleased to announce that it has started accepting student submissions of short comments (or “shorts”) for publication in the print edition of BBLJ. A short is a piece on a recent case, agency decision, or scholarly legal article that is less than 15 pages double-spaced. Shorts can be written on any topic that is related to Business Law. Student submissions that are accepted will be included in Issue 7 of the BBLJ.

All Boalt Hall students are eligible to submit a short. The deadline for consideration for publication in Issue 7 is 11:59 PM PST on February 15, 2010. Pieces submitted after this time will be considered for publication in Issue 8.1.

For details including to whom to direct inquiries and how to submit a short please see the announcement on the BBLJ website http://www.boalt.org/bblj/Shorts.pdf.

This is an excellent way to have your work published in a leading law journal. We look forward to your submission!

Best,
Matt DalSanto
Senior Submissions Editor
Berkeley Business Law Journal

The Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity and Diversity is accepting applications for its 2010 Summer Internship Program

The Warren Institute is a multidisciplinary, collaborative venture to produce research, research-based policy prescriptions, and curricular innovation on issues of racial and ethnic justice in California and the nation.

The Institute’s mission is to engage the most difficult topics related to civil rights, race and ethnicity in a wide range of legal and public policy subject areas, providing valuable intellectual capital to public and private sector leaders, the media and the general public, while advancing scholarly understanding. Central to its methods are concerted efforts to build bridges connecting the world of research with the world of civic action and policy debate so that each informs the other, while preserving the independence, quality and credibility of the academic enterprise.

The Warren Institute has established itself as an important interlocutor in some of today’s most pressing legal and political topics. We currently operate programs dealing with voting rights, education, health, and immigration. Our activities include research, policy development, and advocacy. Each year, we hold a number of convenings on salient civil rights issues that bring national civil rights leaders to campus.

Summer Internships: In 2010, the Warren Institute will host a small number of Summer Interns. Summer Interns will have substantial responsibility researching civil rights problems and developing policy reforms to address them. Our summer internship program provides an excellent opportunity to gain meaningful hands-on experience working on cutting edge civil rights issues and to work with leading scholars and advocates in the field. We will consider two types of summer interns:

Legal summer internships: Open to students who have completed at least their first year of law school. We may consider individuals who have graduated and will start a judicial clerkship.

Social science summer internships: Open to graduate students who have completed at least one year of graduate study, including quantitative analysis coursework or other high level analytical skills.

To apply for a summer internship, please forward a resume, cover letter, and references to Elaine Mui at emui@law.berkeley.edu. Applications are due by January 29, 2010.

For more information about the Institute, visit www.law.berkeley.edu/centers/ewi.

In 1998, Foley created the Minority Scholarship Program in an effort to raise awareness of diversity related issues in the legal profession. A strong and effective diversity program is one of the highest priorities of their firm, and the Minority Scholarship Program exemplifies Foley’s tangible commitment to the advancement of minority law students and to achieving a more diverse legal community.

Minority students in their first year of law school at Berkeley, Duke, Florida, Georgetown, Michigan, Northwestern, UCLA, and Wisconsin are eligible to apply for the scholarship. One scholarship in the amount of $5,000 is awarded to a student at each school.

Consideration is given to significant involvement in community activities; significant involvement in minority student organizations; outstanding work or personal achievements; and academic records. Financial need is not a consideration. Foley’s Minority Scholarship Program Committee will select each scholarship recipient.

Download the application at foley.com/minorityscholarships
Application deadline: January 19, 2010
Applications can be submitted electronically or by mail to:

Ms. Lauren Luke, Legal Recruiting/Diversity/Outreach Coordinator
One Maritime Plaza, Sixth Floor
San Francisco, CA 94111-3409
415-984-9892 TEL
415-434-4507 FAX
lluke@foley.com

All students enrolled in Professor Swift’s Evidence class must attend the first meeting on Wednesday, January 13. Please drop the class as soon as possible if you do not plan to take it.

Students on the Wait List who still want to enroll must also attend the first class meeting. Preference will be given to students who have an exigent academic reason for needing to take this class. The assignment for the first class is pages 1-38 in the Allen, Kuhns, Swift & Schwartz Evidence casebook, which is on Course Reserve in the Library. Please do not purchase the casebook from the Bookstore if you are not enrolled in the class.

The La Raza Lawyers Association of Fresno is pleased to announce the Mario Olmos Scholarship.  Since 1980, La Raza Lawyers Association of Fresno has awarded scholarships to deserving law students who have demonstrated academic achievement, leadership ability, involvement in the Latino community, financial need, and ties to California’s Central Valley.  Since 1991, the scholarship fund has been dedicated to the memory of the late Superior Court Judge Mario G. Olmos, a Fresno County jurist and respected community leader.

Applications can be downloaded from Financial Aid’s website or larazalaw.com.

Depending on the number of scholarships awarded, the scholarships can vary in amount.  Most recently the amounts have varied from $1,000 to $3,000.

Applications must be received on or before January 15, 2010.

For questions or more information, please contact:

Ana de Alba, Law Offices of Lang, Richert & Patch

Address: 5200 N. Palm Ave., Suite 401, Fresno CA 93704;

Telephone: (559) 228-6700; or

Email: ada@lrplaw.net. If possible, submit all inquiries by e-mail.

The first meeting of the class is on Wednesday, January 13, 2010, starting at 3:20 p.m., in the Dean’s Seminar Room, 215B Boalt Hall.

As previously announced, enrollment is limited to 18, and third year students will be given priority. All interested students—whether or not enrolled or placed on the wait list by Telebears—must attend the first session in order to be admitted. Any student who does not attend the first class may be dropped by the instructor.

Due to the use of simulation exercises throughout the course as well as the need to determine the members of the class as soon as possible, the usual provisions of “Drop/Add” do not apply. If you wish to enroll, you must commit by no later 2:00 p.m., on Friday, January 15, 2010, the last day of the first week of spring semester classes.

There is no assigned reading for the first class. All course reading materials will be provided by the instructor.

If you have any questions, contact Professor Henry Hecht, by e-mail (hhecht@law.berkeley.edu) or by telephone (510-642-1787).

Spend Your Summer Doing Innovative Criminal and Juvenile Justice Work

The Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice (BCCJ) seeks a Berkeley Law student for an internship for summer 2010.

BCCJ works to bring law enforcement and community together to build partnerships in support of innovative, research-based criminal justice policy approaches. The summer intern would do research and policy work on BCCJ projects in one or more of the following areas: street violence reduction, juvenile justice, corrections and reentry, policing and community policing, and drug policy. The summer intern’s duties may also include the opportunity to work directly for BCCJ Faculty Board members.

Summer interns will work under the direction of the Executive Director. The position is open to first and second year students. Students will likely be eligible for the Boalt Public Interest/Public Service Summer Fellowship Program; please contact Alexander Lee in the CDO (alee@law.berkeley.edu) for additional details about the Summer Fellowship Program.

Interested applicants should send a cover letter, resume, and unofficial transcript to BCCJ Executive Director Andrea Russi at arussi@law.berkeley.edu

For more information about BCCJ, visit our website: www.bccj.berkeley.edu.