The Women's Bar Foundation (WBF), has announced the availability of applications for the 3rd Annual WBF Public Service Stipend Award. “The escalating cost of a law school education makes it difficult for many new women lawyers to accept employment in the public service arena,” said WBF President Bernadette Barron. “As a not-for-profit organization founded to support women lawyers, the WBF’s Public Service Stipend Award may be used to offset law school debt; thereby reducing the graduate’s overall financial strain. We believe that this is significant.” “The WBF’s 2010 Public Service Stipend Award of $15,000.00 will provide immediate financial support to a recent woman graduate of an Illinois law school who is pursuing a career in public service. One of our key strategic initiatives is to support legal service in the public interest areas,” said President Barron. Candidates are invited to complete and submit an application NO LATER THAN July 6, 2010 to the address below:

• Bates McIntyre Larson, Esq.
• Scholarship and Stipend Award Director
• Women’s Bar Foundation
• c/o Perkins Coie LLP
• 131 S. Dearborn Street, Suite 1700
• Chicago, Illinois 60603-5559.

For further information on the WBF Public Service Stipend application, see www.womensbarfoundation.org.