Selected entering students will receive a grant of partial to full funding of tuition and fees for the three years of law school. Research assistants assist members of the law faculty or deans in various research projects. Research assistants are remunerated on an hourly basis and may assist a faculty members or deans in research for approximately 15 hours a week during the academic session. Opportunities are available to a limited number of second and third-year students in the Law Library and Legal Information Center and other departmental offices on campus. The Stetson Public Service Fellows are students from varying backgrounds interested in participating and promoting public service law.
Fellows receive a semester fellowship for a portion of their tuition.
This Florida Bar Foundation sponsored program requires each fellow to work a minimum of 20 hours per week on public interest law. Students are selected by application, based on several criteria including prior public service. Application deadlines are advertised in The Brief . In grateful appreciation, the College has established an endowed scholarship and grant fund in her name and in her memory. Ms. Atkinson practiced in Dade County, Florida, and was the first woman judge in that County, having served with distinction as Judge of the Juvenile Court during the 1920's.