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Media Contact: Sari Krosinsky, 277-1593
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March 5, 2007

UNM School of Law Co- sponsors Pre-Law Summer Institute 40th Anniversary Celebration

A daylong symposium and evening reunion banquet highlighting the 40th anniversary celebration of the American Indian Law Center's Pre-Law Summer Institute on April 21 in Albuquerque. PLSI is housed at the University of New Mexico.

During the symposium, the institute's origins and successes will be examined. Topics to be discussed will include the PLSI impact on Indian legal education, Indian law, tribal governments and the number of practicing Native American lawyers. PLSI graduates, law professors and law-school deans will participate in panel discussions. Members from all 40 PLSI classes are invited to attend.

The Pre-Law Summer Institute is an eight-week summer program that prepares Indian students for law school and demonstrates their ability to perform to law school standards. About 1,000 American Indian students have participated in the program since its inception in 1966. Many PLSI graduates are among the leading ranks of American Indian lawyers nationwide.

The April 21 event follows the Indian Law Conference of the Federal Bar Association and will be sponsored by the AILC, the University of New Mexico School of Law and the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University.

For more information contact Heidi Nesbitt at 277-5462, nesbitt@law.unm.edu or Mitzi Vigil at 277-0405, vigil@law.unm.edu.

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