For the past 18 years the Black Entertainment and Sports Lawyers Association, Inc. (BESLA) has awarded over $100,000 in scholarships to deserving law students seeking careers in the entertainment and sports industries. This year BESLA will once again award over $10,000 in Scholarships to aspiring law students at its 27th Anniversary Annual Conference in Cancun, Mexico October 24-28, 2007.
As an added requirement to this year’s scholarship recipient selection process, BESLA has launched the 4th Annual BESLA Scholarship Legal Writing Competition. Law students desiring scholarship awards will be required to write an essay with a minimum of 1,000 words or two (2) pages on a compelling legal issue facing the entertainment or sports industry. The winner(s) of the competition will be awarded a $1,500 scholarship. The winning student authors will be considered for possible publication in BESLA’s e-newsletter and/or conference program booklet.
Details and Deadline: Submissions, including all scholarship requirements must be post marked by August 31, 2007.
Please see http://www.besla.org/images_newsite/StudentScholarshipMaterials.doc for complete details.
BESLA’s website is www.besla.org.
Any additional questions regarding the scholarship may be addressed to:
Noni Ellison Southall, Esq.
Noni.ellison-southall@turner.com
(404) 885-4552
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Ashley Johnson, Sub-Region 2
The Southern Region of NBLSA gives members a chance to be a part of something bigger. Working in conjunction with NBLSA, SRBLSA gives the members of each individual chapter of their local BLSA the opportunity to serve each other, their law schools, their communities, and BLSA. The Southern Region of BLSA includes- Alabama, Flordia, Georgia, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, and Tennessee.
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- University of Mississippi, BLSA President Tameika Cooper
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