Program introduces teens to law careers, gives them opportunity to win scholarships, tuition waivers
Excerpt from the Chicago Tribune, July 13, 2011
By Jessica Tobacman, Special to the Tribune
"Esperanza Gaytan, 15, strode to the center of the courtroom to argue that a gun-toting man has the right to flee from police in a high-crime area in Chicago. It was Moot Court and a lot was on the line.
Though Gaytan and 20 other students are years away from law school, their performance in the Illinois Law and Leadership Institute could earn them tuition waivers at John Marshall Law School and, maybe more important, get them looking ahead, especially since more than half were from families with no college graduates.” (read more)
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