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This work is made possible by the financial support of many individuals, foundations, companies, and law firms. Thank you to our partners and sponsors for helping ensure that TAP's programs remain cost-free for our students.

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Akin is a leading international law firm with more than 900 lawyers and advisors in offices throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Among Akin’s market-leading practices, the Supreme Court & Appellate practice has established itself as go-to lawyers for our clients’ most important matters.

Baker Botts is a leading global law firm. The foundation for our differentiated client support rests on our deep business acumen and technical experience built over decades of focused leadership in our sectors and practices. We are proudly technical in helping clients shape the future of their industries.

Benedon & Serlin is an appellate boutique firm in Southern California. We are intimately familiar with appellate procedure and the appellate courts, and conduct appellate matters and trial consultations in a wide range of substantive legal areas. Our close-knit firm provides clients and litigators with impeccable service from attorneys with deep roots in appellate law and a long-standing affinity for the practice.

ChangeLawyers is a community foundation that empowers the next generation of lawyers, judges, and activists to create a more diverse legal profession, a fair justice system, and a better California.

Compass Minerals (NYSE: CMP) is a leading global provider of essential minerals focused on safely delivering where and when it matters to help solve nature’s challenges for customers and communities. The company operates 12 production and packaging facilities with nearly 2,000 employees throughout the U.S., Canada and the U.K. Visit compassminerals.com for more information about the company and its products.

Curtis is a New York headquartered law firm operating out of 20 locations worldwide. Our appellate lawyers represent diverse clients, from foreign sovereigns to public and private corporations. We have achieved major, precedent-setting victories in high-stakes appeals.

For over 30 years, the Echoing Green Fellowship has provided foundational strategic support to emerging leaders around the country working to bring about positive social change.

Faegre Drinker is a firm with one shared focus: the client. We understand your priorities, bring you fresh ideas that work, and deliver excellence – without arrogance. We’re ready to partner with you to advance your most ambitious business and legal goals..

Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland is one of the country’s leading appellate firms. Clients and litigators turn to us for our creative thinking, clear writing, and expertise in crafting briefs that resonate with appellate courts


Haynes Boone is an American Lawyer top 100 law firm, with nearly 700 lawyers in 19 offices around the world, providing services for more than 40 major legal practices. Haynes Boone has a client-first philosophy, defining success as providing exceptional value to their clients and making real, tangible, and often remarkable contributions to their businesses.

Horvitz & Levy is a solutions-based firm focused on appellate success. We are distinguished by our commitment to responsive service and on-going innovation in the areas of civil appellate litigation, amicus curiae support, and trial strategy consultation.

The J.M. Kaplan Fund champions transformative social, environmental, and cultural causes through inventive grant-making. Over its 75-year history, the Fund has devoted more than $300 million to propel fledgling efforts concerning civil liberties, human rights, the arts, and the conservation and enhancement of the built and natural worlds.

Jenner & Block LLP is a law firm with global reach, with offices in Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and Washington, DC. The firm is known for its prominent and successful litigation practice, global investigations, and experience handling sophisticated and high-profile corporate transactions..

Kirkland & Ellis is an international law firm with more than 3,000 attorneys across the United States, Europe and Asia. The firm represents clients in complex litigation and investigations, corporate transactions, intellectual property and restructuring matters. As one of the nation’s premier appellate practices, Kirkland attorneys handle high-stakes cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and federal and state appellate courts.

Kramer Levin provides proactive, creative and pragmatic solutions that address today's most challenging legal issues. The firm is headquartered in New York with offices in Silicon Valley, Washington, DC, and Paris and fosters a strong culture of involvement in public and community service. For more information, please visit www.kramerlevin.co

Latham & Watkins is a global law firm with more than 3,000 lawyers in its offices located in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the United States. The firm has internationally recognized practices in a wide spectrum of transactional, litigation, corporate and regulatory areas.

Mayer Brown has one of the premier appellate groups in the United States. Our lawyers have argued over 250 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as hundreds of cases in federal and state appellate courts, raising a wide variety of interesting and important issues.

The McNulty Foundation seeks to give transformational support to emerging and established leaders at pivotal moments in their leadership journey. Founded in 1985, the Foundation embodies the founders’ belief that every individual deserves agency and opportunity in their own lives, and that courageous individuals can have a multiplier effect through their leadership.

Morrison & Foerster has 1,000 lawyers who serve clients through a global network of 16 offices located in key technology, business, and financial centers in the United States, Asia, and Europe.

Munger, Tolles & Olson is a 200-lawyer firm based in Los Angeles with a national practice representing clients in a broad range of complex and high-profile matters. Munger Tolles lawyers are known for trying bet-the-company cases and negotiating deals that shape our corporate landscape.

Orrick is a forward-looking global law firm focused on advising clients in three sectors: technology & innovation, energy & infrastructure and finance. We help the world’s most disruptive companies complete strategic transactions, resolve disputes, protect intellectual property, and navigate an environment where innovation outpaces regulation and enforcement. The firm is known for innovating in the way we serve our clients and for thinking differently about inspiring, sustainable career paths.

Patterson Belknap is a law firm of over 200 lawyers committed to providing high quality legal advice and service to clients and to maintaining a congenial and diverse workplace. We deliver a full range of services across more than 20 practice groups in both litigation and commercial law.

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP is an international law firm with about 1,000 lawyers across the U.S., Europe and Asia. Led by one of the country's premier Supreme Court advocates, the Paul, Weiss Supreme Court and Appellate Litigation Practice regularly handles high-profile cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and federal and state appellate courts. Our lawyers have secured victories in some of the most important business and public interest cases of our time.

Pillars Fund amplifies the leadership, narratives, and talents of Muslims in the United States to advance opportunity and justice for all. Since our founding in 2010, Pillars has distributed more than $6 million in grants to Muslim organizations and leaders who advance social good.


The Public Welfare Foundation supports efforts to advance justice and opportunity for people in need. These efforts honor the Foundation’s core values of racial equity, economic well-being and fundamental fairness for all.

Quinn Emanuel is a 1000+ attorney business litigation firm - the largest in the world - with 36 offices around the globe, each devoted solely to business litigation and arbitration. Named the "most feared" law firm in the world by major company surveys, our firm lawyers have tried over 2,500 cases, winning 86% of them and having obtained seven nine-figure jury verdicts, four 10-figure jury verdicts, 51 nine-figure settlements, and twenty 10-figure settlements.

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates is known for the innovative and creative thinking we rely on to handle the most complex transactions, litigation/controversy issues, and regulatory matters, as well as the open, collaborative relationships we build with clients, including corporations; financial and governmental entities; small, entrepreneurial companies; and cultural, educational and charitable institutions.

The mission of the Skoll Foundation is to catalyze transformational social change by investing in, connecting, and championing social entrepreneurs and other social innovators who together advance bold and equitable solutions to the world’s most pressing problems.


With more than 260 attorneys and public policy advisors, Wiley has earned international esteem by representing clients, and igniting legal, regulatory, and policy ripples for many of the world's leading companies, organizations, and startups.

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP (WilmerHale) is a leading, full-service international law firm with 1,000 lawyers located throughout 13 offices in the United States, Europe and Asia. Our lawyers work at the intersection of government, technology and business.