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Firm News
Vinson & Elkins Awards Minority Scholarships
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The Vinson & Elkins Scholarship Foundation is proud to announce that it is awarding six new financial scholarships to college-bound minority high school students. In doing so, the Foundation is expanding its program to Dallas and has become one of the largest private scholarship providers to minorities in Texas.
The six new $10,000 educational scholarships being presented this month to Texas high school students brings the total number of minority college scholarships funded annually by the V&E; Scholarship Foundation to 24. The scholarship provides each student with $2,500 in financial aid per school year for four years. In addition, each student will be offered a summer job at the law firm.
"We are delighted to be able to award this scholarship to these amazing and deserving students," said Karen Hirschman, a partner in Vinson & Elkins' Dallas office. "V&E; established the scholarship program to promote and encourage the vital goal of achieving diversity in the legal profession by providing financial assistance to talented minority students interested in studying the law."
The V&E; Scholarship Foundation annually awards four student scholarships in Houston, one in Austin and one in Dallas. Since the program was created in 1990, V&E; has awarded scholarships to 68 students. Several have become lawyers, accountants and teachers. Many are still in college or graduate school.
For more information about the Vinson & Elkins Scholarship Foundation and the students receiving them, please feel free to contact Karen Hirschman at (214) 220-7700 or via email at khirschman@velaw.com. Or you may contact Darrin Schlegel in V&E; Media Relations at (713) 758-2171 or via email at dschlegel@velaw.com.
Vinson & Elkins was established in 1917 and is one of the largest international law firms. V&E; has about 750 lawyers in 10 offices, including Austin, Beijing, Dallas, Dubai, Houston, London, Moscow, New York, Singapore and Washington, D.C.
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