Read the 2010-2011 Prospectus (PDF)

Read the most recent progress report (PDF)

Volunteers Experience the Impact of the Street Law Pipeline Program (PDF - NALP Bulletin article, January 2010)

NALP/Street Law Pipeline Program Marks First Year (PDF - NALP Bulletin article, June 2009)

A partnership between Street Law and NALP - the Association for Legal Career Professionals, this program partners law firms with diverse groups of high school students. The goal is to teach the students about the law and legal careers, encourage them to pursue legal careers, and offer support in that pursuit.

2009-2010 Participating Law Firms

Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod LLP (Miami, FL)
with the University of Miami Law School

Holland & Knight LLP (Washington, DC)

Hunton and Williams LLP (Richmond, VA)
with William and Mary Law School

Kirkland & Ellis LLP (San Francisco, CA)
with Stanford Law School and UC Berkeley School of Law

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz (New York, NY)
with New York University School of Law

About the Program

In 2008 NALP and Street Law, Inc. partnered to create the NALP/Street Law Legal Diversity Pipeline Program. This pipeline program is designed to provide information about the law and the legal profession to high school students. The goal is to encourage talented, diverse students, to consider legal careers.

Participating law firms are paired with local high schools. Volunteers from the firm teach student about substantive areas of the law and then host a one-day conference at the firm. Law firm participants are given the opportunity to work with a diverse group of interested young people in their community, and high school students learn about new career paths.

Program Components

• Training session for law firm volunteers and participating teachers led by NALP/Street Law staff
• Visits to partner high school classrooms by law firm volunteers
• Field trip for law students to the law firm
• Additional activities for the most interested students

Research Based Approach
The Legal Diversity Pipeline Program is built on research based best practices, which suggest that in order to encourage young people to pursue a specific career, we should provide them with.

• Career pathway education
• Career role models
• Opportunity to experience and enjoy career-related tasks
• Support and encouragement

Law Firm Commitment

Firms that participate are asked to make a financial contribution to Street Law, Inc., to offset the costs of the program. For more information on the program’s funding see our Prospectus (PDF).

Participating firms also make a commitment to staff at least two visits to each participating classroom, host an on-site, one day conference for students at the law firm, and offer a follow-up activity for a smaller number of students.

Street Law and NALP offer complete support for participating law firms including training, program development assistance, a written manual and curriculum guide, and matching with an appropriate high school.

For more information on the program contact Millicent Bond, NALP/Street Law Legal Diversity Pipeline Program Fellow mbond@nalp.org.