Pipeline Programs
• Vorys sponsors a scholarship through the Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges’ (OFIC) Ohio Scholars Program. This scholarship is
available to a minority pre-law major from Franklin, Cuyahoga, Hamilton or Summit County who attends one of the 34 OFIC schools.
• One of our partners was the founding board president of Law and Leadership Institute (LLI), an Ohio program that identifies promising
high school students from underserved communities to educate them about and prepare them for careers in the legal profession.. He now
serves as an emeritus member of the LLI Board of Directors. Vorys has participated in the program by welcoming LLI student interns to our
offices every year, and many of our lawyers serve as mentors to the program’s participants.
• Our Cincinnati office annually hires a student from the Summer Work Experience in Law Program (SWEL) sponsored by the Black Lawyers
Association of Cincinnati. SWEL offers area minority high school and college students the opportunity to gain a hands-on introduction to the
legal profession.
• Through Leadership Akron, Vorys participates in a mentoring program for minority students participating in Destination College. Destination
College works with high school juniors who have shown potential to be successful in postsecondary education but lack the support to
transition successfully from high school to college.
• Vorys lawyers mentor middle and high school students through “shadowing” programs coordinated through public and private schools in
the Columbus and Cincinnati areas.
• 34% of the attorneys in the Vorys Cincinnati office serve as tutors for students who attend Cincinnati Public Schools’ Hays-Porter Elementary
through the Be the Change program.
This is the office’s seventh consecutive
year participating in the program.
In August, Vorys hosted students from the
Cleveland Leadership Center (i)Cleveland
for a power lunch. (i)Cleveland’s goal is to
locally retain talented college-age students
by offering an expansive view of the region’s
resources while immersing them in local
professional and civic arenas. This power
lunch exposed attendees to a career path in
the law. (Pictured Right)
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