Kramer Levin and litigation associate Jeremy Cohen teamed up to award scholarships to four graduates of Legal Outreach, Inc.'s College Bound program. Legal Outreach is a non-profit educational organization operating principally in Harlem and Brooklyn. Its goal is to prepare public high school students from under-served communities in New York City for college and professional careers, largely by helping them develop "legal" skills such as public speaking, persuasive writing and critical thinking through an intensive after-school, weekend and summer program. Kramer Levin provides an annual summer internship for Legal Outreach students, has seen many of its associates serve as mentors for individual students, and has endowed annual scholarships for program graduates given in memory of Marvin Frankel.
This year's scholarships were presented at Legal Outreach's graduation ceremony on June 14, 2006 at the New York County Lawyers Association. The awards were presented to Aissatou Barry (who will be attending the University of Michigan in the fall), Kiswana Browne (Hobar and William Smith Colleges), Karina Gyadukyan (Pace University) and Ulysses Ifill (Northeastern University).
Legal Outreach and the four scholarship recipients thank Kramer Levin for its continuing support.