The Summer Law Institute is an intensive five-week program for rising ninth-graders that seeks to inspire students to strive for academic excellence and to pursue careers in the law. The program, which includes a criminal justice and trial process curriculum, guest speakers, field trips and a mock trial competition also teaches students time management, essay writing and test taking skills, good study habits, and professionalism so that they are uniquely prepared to succeed in high school.
SLI students are recruited from various junior high schools in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx beginning in January. Individual and group interviews take place through the end of March with final decisions being announced in April. Thirty-two students will be accepted to one of five SLIs at each of our partnering institutions, which include Columbia Law School, NYU Law School, Brooklyn Law School, Fordham Law School and St. John’s Law School. If Legal Outreach does not recruit at your child’s school, please feel free to download the attached application.
Students accepted to participate in an SLI are required to attend the entire program, which runs this year from July 5 to August 6, 2010. Further, students must participate in an SLI to be eligible to apply to Legal Outreach’s four-year College Bound program.
SLI Group Interviews (mandatory for all SLI applicants)
If attendance is impossible, please call 718-752-0222 Ext 209
When:
February 15th - SLI Group Interview - Over
February 16th - SLI Group Interview - Over
March 13th - SLI Group Interview -- Over
Time(s):
You must attend one of the two.
If possible your parent should join you for the parent info session.
Session I—Arrive by 10:00AM. Ends at 1:00PM.
Session II—Arrive by 2:00PM. End at 5:00PM.
*Don’t be late or you’ll miss important info.
Where:
The March 13 group interviews will take place at the following locations:
Columbia Law School, Jerome Green Hall, 435 W. 116th St (accessible by 1 train to 116th Street) at 10am and 2pm OR
NYU Law School, Vanderbilt Hall, 40 Washington Sq Park South (accessible by all trains; link for directions) at 10am and 2pm.
Students only need to attend ONE session. They can choose which interview site they attend, but we suggest that students from Manhattan, Queens and Bronx go to CLS, and students from Brooklyn go to NYU.
RSVP by emailing agenzale@legaloutreach.org or calling Ms. Genzale at (718) 752-0222, Ext.
206. If you leave a message, please speak slowly and clearly, and include [1] your name (spell it for us), [2] middle school, [3] borough in which you live, [4] date on this flier, and [5] the session you would like to attend. Thanks!
