The application period for the 2022-2023 Mentorship Program has now closed and mentorship pairings have been made. Thank you to all who applied to be a mentee or mentor in this year's class!
If you are interested in applying to be a mentee in future years, sign up for our listserv at the very bottom of this website to ensure you know when the 2023-2024 application goes live.
Volunteers: If you're interested in serving as a mentor in future years or generally volunteering with our program, you can sign up here.
Making appellate work accessible to everyone
Many law students of color, particularly those who are first-generation, lack the networks and resources of their law school peers. As a result, these students may miss out on appellate opportunities simply because they do not know about appellate work and how to pursue it. Others self-select out, discouraged by how few appellate attorneys and judges they see who look like them.
Our goal is to change that.
Our Mentorship Program is the first national effort focused on empowering law students of color to pursue appellate work. We pair law students of color interested in appellate practice with mentors in the appellate field. We also provide students with appellate-focused resources throughout the Program: clerkship support, networking opportunities with the appellate bar, skill-building workshops, guidance on appellate job opportunities, and more.
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Hear what our mentors and mentees are saying
Cornell Law School, Class of 2022
Howard University School of Law, Class of 2021
Vanderbilt Law School, Class of 2021