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 AngelesLos Angeles Leslie Criswell coordinates the LA pipeline Leslie Criswell coordinates the LA pipeline

partnership with Lincoln HS, which recently partnership with Lincoln HS, which recently received the Pillar Partnership Spotlight Awardreceived the Pillar Partnership Spotlight Award

Lessons Engage Lincoln StudentsLessons Engage Lincoln Students

TEW’s Lincoln HS VolunteersTEW’s Lincoln HS Volunteers

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 coordinates the SF program which contains

two components: partnering with the Richmond HS Law Academy in its academic and mentoring curriculum, and

participating in Junior Achievement’s Job Shadowing Program at SFUSD high schools that have law academies.

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