Tucker Ellis & West LLP’s Pipeline Diversity Program “Setting the Gold Standard” Tucker Ellis & West LLP’s Pipeline Diversity Program “Setting the Gold Standard”

Cleveland Pipeline Cleveland Pipeline We partner with the John Hay H.S. Early College Program, providing 3Rs teachers, mock trial coaches, and summer internships.

3Rs at JHEC 3Rs at JHEC Through the 3Rs curriculum, we teach constitutional “rights, responsibilities and realities” and provides career counseling through monthly classroom visits.

Mock Trial Mock Trial TEW Coached JHEC to two consecutive Cleveland Mock Trial Championships and this year JHEC was the only HS with two teams in the top 5.

HS Internships HS Internships We provide paid summer internships for two high school students.

Los Angeles Leslie Criswell coordinates the LA pipeline partnership with Lincoln HS, which partnership recently received the Pillar Partnership Spotlight Award Los Angeles Leslie Criswell coordinates the LA pipeline partnership with Lincoln HS, which partnership recently received the Pillar Partnership Spotlight Award

Lessons Engage Lincoln Students

TEW’s Lincoln HS Volunteers

Denver Denver Pat Fennelly coordinates the Denver program which includes Junior Achievement career counseling in a public Denver middle school and new student orientation at Arrupe Jesuit HS.

San Francisco Janice Hugener is coordinating a “shadowing” program for SF Law Academy HS students and a teaching/counseling program at Richmond HS.

Robert Tucker Scholarship Robert Tucker Scholarship We created and fund the Robert Tucker Scholarship at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law for a graduate of the Cleveland Metropolitan School District.

Spreading the Word Spreading the Word Articles about TEW’s “Pipeline Program” work have appeared in the CMBA’s Journal, the FBA- NDOC’s Inter Alia, Cleveland-Marshall’s Law Notes and DRI’s The Voice. It has also been the subject of presentations to the LA County Bar Association Diversity Summit and the CMBA’s Managing Partner and Diversity Conferences.

TEW Sets the Gold Standard TEW Sets the Gold Standard “Tucker Ellis & West LLP set the ‘gold standard’ for pipeline initiative programs.” Louise Dempsey (CMSD School Bd. Member, Cleveland- Marshall College of Law Assistant Dean, and CMBA 3Rs Committee Member).

Certainly Not “The End,” Just the Beginning Certainly Not “The End,” Just the Beginning