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Diversity Initiatives

The CMBA's diversity initiatives are acknowledged as national model programs and were awarded the first ever Raymond and Sadie T. M Alexander Award for Excellence in Pipeline Diversity by the American Bar Association's Presidential Advisory Council on Diversity in 2009. The award recognizes efforts to create and implement pipeline initiatives in a collaborative approach involving more than one segment in the continuum from K-12 to high school to college to law school to practice. The CMBA also received the American Bar Association's Partnership Award for efforts to increase the participation and advancement of lawyers of color in the organized bar and to attract students of color to the legal professions.

Diversity Circle

HELP SUPPORT OUR DIVERSITY INITIATIVES

The CMBA has a special membership category, the Diversity Circle, to provide support for the award-winning initiatives and programs aimed at increasing diversity in the legal profession and improving the pipeline of minorities entering law school. To become a member of the Diversity Circle, members pay $100 in addition to their regular CMBA dues, or $75 if they have practiced for five years or less or are affiliate members of the CMBA. Contact the CMBA at 216-696-3525 for more details.

Diversity Programs

High School Internship Program

For minority students who completed their sophomore year of high school

Minority Clerkship Program

For minority first-year law students from Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, and for Cleveland residents studying at distant law schools.

Minority Judicial Externship

For minority second-year law students from Case Western Reserve University School of Law and Cleveland-Marshall College of Law

Stephanie Tubbs Jones Summer Legal Academy

For minority students from high schools throughout Cuyahoga County

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