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Cynthia Nance Wins ABA’s 2018 Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award
LSAC congratulates former LSAC Board member and longtime governance volunteer Cynthia Nance on winning the American Bar Association’s 2018 Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award. The honor, established in 1991 by the American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession, recognizes and celebrates the accomplishments of women lawyers who have excelled in their field and have paved the way to success for other women lawyers. Dean Nance is the dean emeritus of the University of Arkansas School of Law.
Seeking Student Stories from the Justice Pipeline
Law school students around the country are committed to making a difference by working on legal issues that matter to them. If you have students whose stories might inspire others, please send the stories to us so that we can review them for posting on LSAC.org where they can encourage aspiring law students. We want to showcase as many students as we can from as many law schools as possible. We look for the stories, videos, and photos in a short newsy format, and there is no limit to how many we will take from each school.
Did You Know?
Credential Assembly Service (CAS) updates now flow into ACES² every day—including on weekends. This new service ensures that law schools will always have the most up-to-date CAS information for each applicant.
Miguel Willis Named First LSAC Presidential Innovation Fellow
Inspiration to pursue a legal education can come from many different directions—a friend or relative, a perceived injustice, or even a new TV show. LSAC has added another source of inspiration—a fellowship that supports emerging leaders who will work to inspire prospective students to pursue legal education by developing innovative pathways to advance justice and the rule of law. LSAC’s first Presidential Innovation Fellow is Miguel Willis, the 2016 National Jurist Law Student of the Year.
Miguel’s entrepreneurial spirit, drive to innovate, and commitment to diversity and access to justice made him the ideal choice to become LSAC’s first Presidential Innovation Fellow. He is committed to using his law degree in a nontraditional way to solve seemingly intractable problems. At LSAC, he will grow his Access to Justice Tech Fellows Program, which he founded while obtaining his JD from Seattle University School of Law. It is a national 10-week, summer fellowship program that trains law students to work with technology to improve delivery of legal services, many through Legal Services Corporation (LSC)-funded organizations. Training is primarily online and covers technology competence, project management, legal design thinking, and cultural competence. For the coming summer, his program will support 25 fellows from 23 law schools.
LSAC Presidential Innovation Fellows will serve two-year overlapping terms. Fellows assist LSAC with its work in building the justice pipeline while having structured support to incubate their fellowship project. The application process for selection of the next Presidential Innovation Fellow (term to begin in September 2019) will open on September 10, 2018, at LSAC.org.