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The Asian Pacific
American Bar Association Educational Fund (AEF) is a not-for-profit,
tax-exempt corporation established by the Asian Pacific American Bar
Association (APABA) of the Greater Washington, DC Area in 1993 to engage
exclusively in charitable and educational activities. AEF was created
primarily to grant fellowships to law students and to engage in other
educational activities related to the legal profession and the Asian
Pacific American community. The main purpose of the fellowships is to
allow law students to accept summer internship positions with public
interest or government organization that benefits either the Asian Pacific
American community or the metropolitan Washington, DC community-at-large.
Funding for these summer fellowships has come from generous grants from
national corporations such as Anheuser-Busch, local law firms and our
Annual Benefit Dinner.
Since its inception, AEF
is pleased to have expanded its annual activities to include a Mentoring
Program that pairs APA law students with experienced attorneys and a Mock
Interview Program to help law students prepare for the Fall recruiting
season. AEF has also served as the fiscal sponsor for the Asian Pacific
American Legal Resource Center (APALRC) and a consortium of APA legal
scholars who compiled a book on the law of internment and redress. Most
recently, AEF has joined other local APA community organizations and
government agencies to become a partner in the Access to Justice
Partnership (AJP) and will be working to improve APA's access to the
criminal justice system. AEF aims to organize additional projects in the
future, such as panels on employment with the government and non-profit
agencies, in order to serve the evolving needs of law students.
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