Scholarships are available to all law students, both male and female. The San Mateo County Women Lawyers' Section Educational Foundation was set up in 1996 as a non-profit organization to raise scholarship funds for deserving law students. Since its inception, the Foundation has awarded over $75,000. Scholarships are available to all law students, both male and female. We encourage you to apply. In considering scholarship applicants for determination of scholarship awards, attributes of applicants to be weighed in making such awards include, but are not limited to, the following: (a) Financial need; (b) Academic excellence (c) Residential or other ties to San Mateo County (d) Involvement in activities, whether legal, scholastic, public, private or community.