New Mexico Hispanic Bar Association Awarded LexisNexis(R) Martindale-Hubbell(R) Legal Fellowship; Funds Will Be Used to Subsidize Costs of 2006 ``Law Camp'' Program for Junior High Students Across State of New Mexico.NEW PROVIDENCE New Providence, city, United States New Providence, borough (1990 pop. 11,439), Union co., NE N.J.; settled c.1720, set off and inc. 1899. It is largely residential but has some light industry. Roses and fruit are grown there commercially. , N.J. -- The New Mexico New Mexico, state in the SW United States. At its northwestern corner are the so-called Four Corners, where Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah meet at right angles; New Mexico is also bordered by Oklahoma (NE), Texas (E, S), and Mexico (S). Hispanic Bar Association (NMHBA), a non-profit organization A non-profit organization (abbreviated "NPO", also "non-profit" or "not-for-profit") is a legally constituted organization whose primary objective is to support or to actively engage in activities of public or private interest without any commercial or monetary profit purposes. that has been promoting opportunities in the legal profession for Hispanics since 1976, has been awarded the second LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell The Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory is one of the oldest and best-known catalogues of lawyers in the United States. Its history begins with two separate publications, the Martindale Directory and Hubbell's Legal Directory. Legal Fellowship, a program kicked off last year to promote education, the practice of public interest law and diversity in the legal profession. The $15,000 fellowship will be awarded to the NMHBA in order to implement an innovative law camp for middle school students who are residents of New Mexico. The camp will include approximately 35 seventh and eighth grade students who come from economically challenged and/or minority backgrounds. During the week-long program, the students will meet with judges, practicing attorneys and law enforcement officers, and they will also visit the federal and state courthouses in Albuquerque. The program will culminate with the students participating in a mock trial A simulated trial-level proceeding conducted by students to understand trial rules and processes. Usually tried before a mock jury, these proceedings are different from Moot Court proceedings, which simulate appellate arguments. . "The number of Hispanic attorneys practicing law in New Mexico is considerably under-representative of the state's Hispanic population, with just 17 percent of attorneys self-identified as Hispanic in a state with a 42 percent Hispanic population," said Rosalie Fragoso, a New Mexico attorney and president of the NMHBA. "Our goal with this program is to introduce students to the legal profession and to help them walk away with the conviction that a college education and legal career are both viable options for their futures." The LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell Legal Fellowship awards two $15,000 grants each year -- one in the summer and one in the winter -- to individuals or associations whose applications are selected by the company's Legal Fellowship committee. The deadline for the next fellowship is June 30, 2006, with the winner to be announced To be announced (TBA) A contract for the purchase or sale of an MBS to be delivered at an agreed-upon future date but does not include a specified pool number and number of pools or precise amount to be delivered. by the end of July. For more information or to complete and submit the application for a fellowship grant, please go to www.martindale.com/ratings and click on the "Legal Fellowship" icon. About LexisNexis LexisNexis(R) (www.lexisnexis.com) is a leader in comprehensive and authoritative legal, news and business information and tailored applications. A member of Reed Elsevier Group plc (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :ENL Noun 1. ENL - an inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face erythema nodosum leprosum Hansen's disease, leprosy - chronic granulomatous communicable disease occurring in tropical and subtropical ) (NYSE:RUK RUK Reserviupseerikoulu (Hamina, Finland, Reserve Officers' School) RUK Are You Kidding? ) (www.reedelsevier.com), the company does business in 100 countries with 13,000 employees worldwide. In addition to its flagship Web-based Lexis(R) and Nexis(R) research services, the company includes some of the world's most respected legal publishers, such as Martindale-Hubbell, Matthew Bender, Butterworths, JurisClasseur, Abeledo-Perrot and Orac. In the United States, LexisNexis offers its customers total practice solutions comprised of an extensive range of online and print legal, regulatory, news and business information products, tools, customized Web applications and critical filing services that help legal professionals achieve excellence in the business and practice of law. |
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