Eligibility: For an entering students who possess exceptional academic credentials as well as a substantial career history or history of significant community or extracurricular engagement.
Amount: $6,000 per year, guaranteed for duration of legal study.
Eligibility: Alaska residents who demonstrate exceptional aptitude for the study of law, coupled with a strong history of service and/or commitment to issues relevant to the Alaskan community.
Created by George and Mary Sundborg, parents of Stephen V. Sundborg, S.J., president of Seattle University. George Sundborg helped Alaska gain statehood and was an elected delegate to the Alaska Constitutional Convention.
Amount: $3,000, for first-year studies only
Eligibility: Entering law students who have participated in Americorps, City Year, Peace Corps, VISTA, Teach for America, military service or Jesuit Volunteer Corps.
To apply: No application is required. Applicants should indicate relevant service in their resume or personal statement.
Eligibility: Admitted students who have achieved merit and personal success despite significant obstacles.
Amount: Full tuition
Eligibility: Entering students who are enrolled members of a federally-recognized tribe or a lineal descendant of an enrolled parent or grandparent. Recipients must demonstrate commitment to Native American or Native Alaskan issues, academic achievement and promise.
To apply: This scholarship requires a special application process. Read more.
Amount: $2,500, awarded as part of recipient’s financial aid package. Renewable annually through reapplication process.
Eligibility: Entering students actively committed to and engaged in public interest law benefitting the LGBTQ community.
Amount: Varying amounts, renewable annually with conditions.
Eligibility: Candidates who demonstrate exceptional aptitude for the study of the law.
Amount: Full tuition
Eligibility: Applicants must be from India and seeking a Master of Laws (LLM) degree
Details: One full tuition scholarship is available each year to a student from India, made possible through a generous grant from the Remala Family Foundation. The recipient is selected based on both need and merit. In addition to the admission application, please complete this application to be considered for the scholarship.
To apply: This scholarship requires a special application process. In addition to the admission application, please complete the Remala Family Scholarship Application (PDF) to be considered for the scholarship.
Amount: Full tuition
Eligibility: Entering students who demonstrate a commitment to a career in public interest law, such as past involvement in significant public service and/or social justice activities, as well as excellent academic achievement.
To apply: This scholarship requires a special application process. Read more.
Amount: Varying amounts, renewable annually with conditions
Eligibility: candidates who possess attributes that contribute to a diverse and dynamic student body, including age, experience, academic background, career history, community service, socioeconomic status, or special talents.
Amount: Varying amounts, renewable annually with conditions
Eligibility: Entering students who are Washington state residents, based on exceptional aptitude for study of law, along with strong commitment to issues relevant to the law school’s mission.
To provide scholarship support for students admitted through the Access Admission Program.
Amount: varying amounts, awarded following both winter and spring graduations
Eligibility: Graduating Access Admission Program students
Named after James Bond who was the longest-serving dean of the Seattle University School of Law.
Awarded to the student in the graduating class who has the greatest potential to achieve the legal profession’s most noble aspirations for justice and ethics through their career.
Awarded to full-time or part-time Seattle U Law students with financial need in good academic standing. Students must be enrolled in either the International Human Rights Clinic, the Immigration Law Clinic, or have declared an intention to work in human rights or immigration law practice areas, with preference given to DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) students when DACA status is known.
Each year, the faculty honors a student who demonstrates the skill, dedication, scholastic achievement, and leadership, both inside and outside of the classroom, that best exemplify the ideals for which the institution, its faculty, its students and the law profession incessantly strive.
Awarded to finalists in the two moot court competitions. Students who earn a B+ or better on their appellate brief in their Legal Writing II class are eligible to compete.
Established by the firm Pfau, Cochran, Vertisis, Amala PLLC to provide a scholarship in honor of Dean Fredric C. Tausend.
Established by alumna, Amanda DuBois ’86, founder of Civil Survival, intended for a student whose life has been directly impacted by the criminal justice system.
Established to honor James F. Henriot an alum and South Sound resident. His law focus was on civil litigation, labor, employment and business law.
Seattle University currently participates in the Yellow Ribbon Program. This is a program that allows students who are eligible for 100% Chapter 33 (Post 9/11 GI Bill®) benefits and not on active duty to gain additional funding for their tuition and fees.
Purpose of providing a rising 2L or 3L based on academic merit and financial need.
To honor Justice Mary I. Yu, a Washington State Supreme Court Justice and Distinguished Jurist in Residence at Seattle U Law, and the diversity and representation she brings to the justice system. Established to aid underrepresented students at Seattle University School of Law, especially women of color.
Established in recognition of Seattle University School of Law's first female dean, this award recognizes the unique potential represented by women in the law, and fosters leadership abilities and excellence.
Started in 1970 when the King County Bar raised $10,000 for minority law student scholarships, this program has grown today to scholarship awards of over $150,000 annually, divided between the University of Washington and Seattle University Schools of Law.
Established in 2015 to provide financial support for an LLSA member who has demonstrated the leadership qualities embodied in LLSA’s Mission.
Established by Lasher Holzapfel Sperry & Ebberson to support students who are underrepresented in the legal profession.
Established through a bequest from Tacoma attorney Louis J. Muscek.
Established to honor the memory of Mary Ellen Krug who was a Seattle attorney and distinguished labor law practitioner to benefit law students who have an interest in labor and employment law.
Established by the chapter with Mary Wechsler ’79 to be awarded to a student that participates and promotes the ideals of the AAML mission as well as someone who intends to practice family law and who aspires to work toward social justice, access to justice, and judicial reform during their career.
Recognizes excellence in written work on a “gender and the law” topic for 2L or 3L students.
Awarded to the winner and runner-up of the Moot Court Competition.
Established to honor the late Judge Lloyd Shorett who was a Prosecuting Attorney for King County for nine years before running for the Superior Court Department 8 in which he served on the bench for 24 years.
Established to honor Anthony "Tony" Yerry '14 who was a successful lawyer as a corporate attorney at K & L Gates. While at SU he was the co-president of the SU Trial Lawyers Association and a Research and Technical Editor of Law Review during his 3L year, graduating summa cum laude.
Established by the Washington State Bar Association Intellectual Property section for students interested in the practice of intellectual property law (whether litigation or transactional work) in the areas of patent, copyright, trademark or trade secret protection, arts and entertainment, advertising law and/or the intellectual property aspects of business.
Established by the Washington State Bar Association Litigation section for students who are interested in the practice of litigation.
Additional non-Seattle U Law scholarships for eligible law students are listed on our Outside Scholarships page.
Other external scholarships may be researched at:
Awarded to 2L students from those selected from their 1L Legal Writing sections to participate in a writing competition, demonstrating high proficiency. Learn more.
Established in 2004 to honor Professor Emeritus Mark Reutlinger, to provide awards to 2L, 3L or 4L students who have written the best paper in a law school course outside the Legal Writing Program determined by a faculty committee.
Established by McKinley Irvin PLLC, a premier divorce and family law firm, and the largest family law firm in the Pacific Northwest for SU Law students with strong consideration for students with an interest in the field of family law.
To apply: Submit an application in Symplicity through the Upper Level Scholarships Application. Questions about this application can be directed to the Associate Dean for Student Development.
Read more about McKinley Irvin.
Established by McKinley Irvin PLLC, a premier divorce and family law firm, and the largest family law firm in the Pacific Northwest for SU Law students, with strong consideration for students with an interest in the field of family law and involvement in BLSA.
To apply: Submit an application in Symplicity through the Upper Level Scholarships Application. Questions about this application can be directed to the Associate Dean for Student Development.
Read more about McKinley Irvin.
Established by McKinley Irvin PLLC, a premier divorce and family law firm, and the largest family law firm in the Pacific Northwest for SU Law students with strong consideration for students with an interest in the field of family law and involvement in LLSA.
To apply: Submit an application in Symplicity through the Upper Level Scholarships Application. Questions about this application can be directed to the Associate Dean for Student Development.
Read more about McKinley Irvin.
Awarded to 2L students from those selected from their 1L Legal Writing sections to participate in a writing competition, demonstrating high proficiency. Learn more.
Amount: $2,500, awarded as part of recipient’s financial aid package. Renewable annually through reapplication process.
Eligibility: Current 1L/2L students actively committed to and engaged in public interest law benefitting the LGBTQ community.
Established by Seed IP Law Group in honor of the firm's founders, Richard W. Seed and Benjamin Berry to be awarded to a student with a strong interest in the field of intellectual property law.
Named in memory of Terence “Terry” Oates, husband of Professor Emeritus Laurel Currie Oates in the School of Law, who passed away in September 2014. Awarded through the annual legal writing competition. Learn more.
Application information: Seattle U Law scholarships do not require a separate application process except for: Douglas R. Nash Native American Law Scholarship, Law Librarianship Scholarship, Outlaws Civil Rights Scholarship, Remala Family Scholarship, and Scholars for Justice Award.
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