Borden Ladner Gervais extends research fellowship program for JD students

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG) has announced the extension of the BLG Fellowship program to promote legal research. As part of $1.2 million in total funding for the program, the University of Toronto Faculty of Law will receive $120,000 over five years to fund two fellowships a year.

One of Canada's largest donations dedicated to research at law schools, the BLG Fellowship program provides grants to top performing first-year law students that allow them to undertake specific legal research initiatives under the direction of prominent faculty members.

Established in 2004, over the past five years the program has awarded 100 fellowships, totalling $1 million, to promote legal research at law schools in 14 universities across Canada.

Starting in 2009, the renewed BLG Fellowship program will award a total of 20 grants worth $12,000 each year to law students who have completed their first year. Fellowship recipients will be chosen by the individual law schools based upon their academic achievements.

Read more on the Borden Ladner Gervais website.