O’Melveny Awards US$160,000 in Scholarships to LAUSD Students

May 20, 2013

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Julie Fei     
O’Melveny & Myers LLP   
213.430.7792     
213.440.7792 (cell)    
jfei@omm.com

LOS ANGELES, CA--May 20, 2013--O’Melveny & Myers LLP, one of the largest and oldest law firms in Los Angeles, will hold its 23rd annual O’Melveny & Myers LLP Scholarship Dinner to honor 16 academically promising students. At the dinner, eight fifth graders from LAUSD’s O’Melveny Elementary School in San Fernando will receive an O’Melveny Scholastic Encouragement Award, making them eligible to receive--upon graduation from high school--a US$20,000 scholarship covering four years of college expenses. In addition, eight O’Melveny Scholars who are now college-bound high school graduates, each of whom has satisfied the program’s requirements, will receive their four-year scholarships.

 

The dinner will be held on Tuesday, June 4, 2013, starting at 5 pm at the Sheraton Universal Hotel, 333 Universal Hollywood Drive, Universal City, CA, 91608. KTLA anchor Frank Buckley will serve as the guest speaker at this inspiring event. Buckley joined KTLA in June 2005 from CNN where he had been a Los Angeles-based national correspondent, covering varying stories including conflict in the Middle East while embedded with the military and a presidential election traveling with the campaigns. Buckley currently serves on the board of the Los Angeles chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association. He is also a member of the U.S.-Japan Council and served on the Japanese American Leadership Delegation in 2006. 

 

The scholarships are awarded by the 127-year-old firm to the designated scholars upon graduation from high school and enrollment in an accredited institution of higher education. The education awards are designed both to recognize the elementary school students’ early scholastic merit and to serve as an incentive to make academic achievement a definite part of their future plans. The annual US$5,000 scholarships can be used for tuition, books, and other educational expenses during college.

  

A few key facts from the O’Melveny Scholarships’ remarkable 20-plus-year history:

  • The O’Melveny Scholarship Program has offered 204 LAUSD students a helping hand in realizing their dreams of attending college.
  • The Firm has distributed more than US$1.2 million to O’Melveny Elementary students.
  • In total, O’Melveny has contributed or committed about US$4 million dollars in scholarship awards for students in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Shanghai, and Beijing.
  • O’Melveny Scholars have graduated from universities such as MIT, Brown University, Stanford, USC, and UCLA.
  • Sixty-four O’Melveny Scholars currently attend high school, middle school, or elementary school, and 130 have attended college or are working toward a degree. To date, 35 O’Melveny Scholars have graduated college.
  • Many O’Melveny Scholars have established rewarding careers in the public and private sectors, including five who have returned to work at O’Melveny Elementary School. 

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