The ACS national office, ACS’s Washington, DC Lawyer Chapter and ACS’s Georgetown University Law Center are proud to announce the launch of the DC Student/Lawyer Mentorship Pilot Program.

Since 2001, ACS has grown exponentially from a small campus organization to a national network of progressive scholars, judges, practitioners, advocates, public officials and law students. ACS and its members strive to ensure that the fundamental principles of human dignity, individual rights and liberties, genuine equality and access to justice are in their rightful place in American law. As evidenced by our conservative counterparts, a vital tool in achieving our mission is to create a means by which more senior members can provide career and professional guidance to those more junior. To this end, we have developed a student/lawyer mentorship program in Washington, DC.

In the coming years, ACS hopes to expand this to a national mentorship program in which senior members from various legal career paths will be paired with mid-level attorneys, recent graduate and law student members. This pilot program will match DC Lawyer Chapter members with DC area student chapter members. Participating student chapters include: American, Catholic, George Mason, George Washington, Georgetown, Howard, Maryland and the University of the District of Columbia. To the extent possible, matches will be made based on employment sector and substantive interest area. Please bear with us as this program develops.

To apply to participate in the program, please read the ACS Mentorship Program Description & Duties sheet and complete either the Mentor Profile Form or the Mentee Profile Form. Email your profile to mentor@ACSLaw.org or fax to (202) 393-6189. Please specify your name in the subject heading, and whether you are a Mentee or Mentor.

For more information, email mentor@ACSLaw.org.