Our Supporters

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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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.

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.

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.

Deutsch Hunt PLLC is an all-women appellate boutique, appearing regularly before the U.S. Supreme Court and other appellate courts nationwide. We work hand-in-hand with our clients to deliver agile solutions to legal problems that demand creative thinking.

Diversity Lab is an incubator for innovative ideas and solutions that boost diversity and inclusion in law. Diversity Lab leverages data, behavioral science, design thinking, and technology to further develop and test new ideas and research, measure the results, and share the lessons learned with more than 375 top law firms and legal departments across the country.

DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers located in more than 40 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific, positioning us to help clients with their legal needs around the world.

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.

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.

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.com

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.

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.

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.

Inspired by the life and legacy of Gene Roddenberry, The Roddenberry Foundation supports innovative thinking, original ideas, and extraordinary people who can change the world. Through four core programs we cast a wide net to uncover and support these great, often untested ideas and the individuals and organizations whose vision and leadership have the potential to bring them to fruition.

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 Appellate Section of the State Bar of Texas represents the more than 2,000 appellate attorneys licensed in Texas. The Section is proud to partner with The Appellate Project to improve the quality of legal services available to future Texan appellate litigants by increasing their opportunity to be represented by an appellate bar and before an appellate bench that is as diverse as Texas.

Stris & Maher is one of the nation’s premier business litigation boutiques. We represent clients in complex, high-stakes legal disputes where our involvement can be transformative.

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.

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.

Yetter Coleman is a law firm built to handle high-stakes business and technology litigation, from investigating claims and filing suit through final resolution on appeal. The firm has earned a reputation as one of the nation’s best litigation firms, and its lawyers are regularly honored as among the best litigators in the country.