Baker & Daniels' Law School Scholarships Building Diversity

Baker & Daniels' diversity scholarships are designed to attract the best and brightest law students, build diversity in the firm's summer associate class and support diversity within the Indiana law schools where the firm currently recruits, Joseph Smith of Baker & Daniels told the Indiana Daily Student in its story, "Second-Year Law Students Receive Scholarships, Summer Positions."

"The legal profession is less diverse than corporate America," Smith said in the story. "Recognizing this challenge and the value diversity brings to all businesses, legal or otherwise, is the responsibility of the legal profession to diversify its lawyers and accurately reflect the community it serves and clients it represents."

The 2008 scholarship recipients are Omar Badawi and Gillian Crowl, both second-year students at the Indiana University School of Law in Bloomington. Both individuals said the scholarship money will help alleviate some of the financial stress of law school. In additional to the scholarship, placement in the Baker & Daniels' summer associate program offers additional paid legal experience, the story reported.