Minorities Interested in Legal Education (MILE)
The Minorities Interested in Legal Education (MILE) project is an effort to address the underrepresentation of minorities in the legal profession by providing minority students with reliable information about preparation for law school.
Primarily designed for college freshmen and sophomores, MILE offers information that can help enhance your academic preparation for law school.
Lesbians, Gay Men, Bisexual, Transgendered People in Law (LGBT)
The movement for social and legal recognition of the rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) people is now a part of the national discourse, with new developments occurring at an unprecedented pace. The legal profession itself has made great strides.
Information to aid members of the LGBT community as they seek legal careers can be found through the Law School Admissions Council Web site.
Council on Legal Education Opportunity (CLEO)
The Council on Legal Education Opportunity is committed to encouraging and preparing minority and low-income students to attend law school.
CLEO offers summer institutes for freshmen and sophomores as well as a preparatory institute for prospective law students the summer before they are scheduled to begin law school.
Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA)
The Hispanic National Bar Association is an incorporated, non-profit, national association representing the interest of over 25,000 Hispanic American attorneys, judges, law professors, and law students in the United States and Puerto Rico.
The primary objectives of the HNBA are to:
- increase professional opportunities for Hispanics in the legal profession
- address issues of concern to the national Hispanic community
Legal education and civil rights have been fundamental concerns of the HNBA from the beginning.
Judicial appointments and political representation are also priorities of the HNBA.
National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA)
The National Asian Pacific American Bar Association is the United States' only national association of Asian Pacific American attorneys, judges, law professors, and law students, providing a national network for its members and affiliates.
Through its network of committees, NAPABA is in the forefront of national and local activities in the areas of civil rights reform. Its goals are to:
- combat anti-immigrant backlash and hate crimes
- increase the diversity of the Federal and State judiciaries
- support professional development
National Black Law Students Association (NBLSA)
The National Black Law Students Association is a national organization created and designed to articulate and promote the professional needs and goals of Black law students. Goals include:
- To foster and encourage professional competence
- To focus upon the relationship of the Black attorney to the American legal system
- To instill in black attorneys and law students a greater awareness of and commitment to the needs of the black community
- To utilize their expertise to initiate a change within the legal system that will make it more responsive to the needs and concerns of the black community
- To do any and all things necessary and lawful for the accomplishment of these goals
American Bar Association -- Diversity Initiatives
The goal of the Office of Diversity Initiatives is to increase minority participation in the legal profession.
The ABA encourages members of racial/ethnic minority groups to consider law as a career and to provide increased opportunities for minorities already in the profession.
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