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Welcome to the Official Website for the 1st Annual National Black Pre-Law Admissions and Preparation Conference and Law Fair 2005! A Message from the Conference Chair A Message from the Conference
Chair
This year's conference theme is “Empowering African American Law School Aspirants to Effectively Compete.” Our goal is to increase the chances of admission of prospective Black law students by emphasizing the importance of early strategic planning, understanding the highly competitive nature of the law school admissions process, and stressing the significance of academic preparedness and standing out from tough competition. Another component of this conference is to inform students about the academic rigors, demands and expectations of legal education, and to impart strategies to help them prepare for the challenging law school experience prior to actually beginning their law school careers. Additionally, we want to expose law school aspirants to Black attorneys, many who have succeeded against the odds, who will share their real-life experiences and invaluable advice regarding the practice of law and nontraditional paths for those possessing a law degree.
All day conference workshops and panel discussions will be presented with an emphasis on providing concrete information that participants can actually use and take away with them while at the same time motivating and inspiring them to pursue their goals of obtaining a legal education with vigor, excellence and fearlessness. Featured workshop panelists and presenters will participate in over eighteen sessions including outstanding, successful and community-minded law school administrative professionals, law students and attorneys from all over the nation.
There will also be a special law fair where future law students will have the opportunity to talk to law school representatives from nearly 90 law schools across the country. In the afternoon, participants will have the chance to take part in our original signature event - The Law School Admissions Help Advice Clinic™ where volunteer law students and attorneys will talk one-on-one with law school hopefuls about their personal admissions credentials and answer any questions they might have about getting into law school, choosing a law school and preparing for the law school experience.
Furthermore, we want to offer conference participants the opportunity to fellowship and network with others with similar higher education and professional goals in order to create positive support systems with other achievement-oriented peers, as well as current law students and attorneys who can potentially become their mentors and help them in their quest to become lawyers. To facilitate this, outside of the informational sessions, we will host other social and networking activities throughout the weekend at various popular venues throughout the Houston area. During the evening of Friday, November 4, all day Saturday, November 5 and in the morning on Sunday, November 6, there will be a Networking Social, the National Association of Future Black Law Students (NAFBLS) Day Membership Recruitment Drive, a special NAFBLS Reception honoring organizational leaders and those who have gone above and beyond to assist pre-law and law students, and a Black Author/Lawyer Book Signing. Finally, the conference weekend will come to a close with a Sunday Brunch Fellowship.
This conference is a “can’t miss” event and is free of charge for ALL participants up until the day of the event. In celebration of this first-time conference, we will be providing special gifts and prizes to all attendees to thank them for supporting this greatly needed conference. Registration is simple. You can e-mail or mail in your registration form until the day before the event in order to be placed on the registered list. On the day of the event, registrants will be charged a nominal fee of $5.00. We are looking forward to seeing all of our future Black lawyers, decision makers, leaders, contributors, community servants and visionaries in Houston in November! Expect to be inspired, enlightened, motivated and empowered - and then ready to take on the challenge of law school with the positive, confident, strategic and competitive mindset necessary to succeed!
Best and warmest regards,
Evangeline
Evangeline M. Mitchell, Esq. |
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I
am pleased to personally invite you to attend The First Annual
National Black Pre-Law Admissions & Preparation Conference
and Law Fair 2005! This historic and groundbreaking event will
be held on Friday, November 4, 2005 at The University of Houston
in Houston, Texas. Houston is a wonderful setting for this
conference as it is not only the fourth largest city in the United
States but also has a substantial and vibrant population of African
American students and professionals. In the wake of all of the
negative publicity regarding Blacks getting into and through law
school and then succeeding on the notorious bar exam, this conference
is taking a bold and proactive step by addressing these issues
head on through practical and empowering workshops geared specifically
to the African American law school aspirant, but open to everyone
who cares about the special issues and concerns we face. The vision
of this conference is being brought to reality through the partnership
between Persistence of Vision Productions, the Eta Lambda Chapter
of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., the National Association
of Future Black Law Students (NABLS) and HBCUConnect.com. 
