Tucker Ellis & West LLP’s Tucker Ellis & West LLP’s Pipeline Diversity Program Pipeline Diversity Program

“Setting the Gold Standard” “Setting the Gold Standard”

Cleveland PipelineCleveland Pipeline

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

3Rs at JHEC3Rs at JHEC Through the 3Rs curriculum, we teach constitutional

“rights, responsibilities and realities” and provides career counseling through monthly classroom visits.

Mock TrialMock 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 AngelisLos Angelis Leslie Criswell coordinates the LA pipeline partnership Leslie Criswell coordinates the LA pipeline partnership with Lincoln HS, which partnership recently received the with Lincoln HS, which partnership recently received the Pillar Partnership Spotlight AwardPillar Partnership Spotlight Award

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

Robert Tucker ScholarshipRobert 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 WordSpreading 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 StandardTEW 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,” Certainly Not “The End,” Just the Beginning Just the Beginning