Start a Student Chapter

Interested in starting a NLG chapter at your school? Want to reinvigorate your chapter? Please contact NLG Director of Research and Education Traci Yoder at traci@nlg.org if you have questions or need any other help getting started!

Resources to help with student chapter organizing:

Student Chapter Checklist: List of steps to set up or re-start a law student chapter at your school!

Beyond Disorientation: An Organizing Guild for Guild Students. A guide for chapters who have already hosted Disorientation events and want to be more engaged. See the Disorientation page for information on Disorientation events.

NLG Letter to Incoming Progressive/Radical Students: Slideshow created by the Stanford Law NLG Chapter! Download and edit to fit your law school context. 

Ten Things the NLG Can Do For You Recruitment Flyer

How To Introduce Law Students to the NLG  

NLG Student Chapter Constitutions:

University of Minnesota NLG

UCLA NLG

NLG Student Chapter Bylaws:

Arizona Summit NLG

Cardozo NLG

Miami Law NLG

Southwestern NLG

UC Davis NLG

Other materials:

Sample Panel/Workshop Diversity Guidelines (Cardozo NLG)

Alabama Manifesto: The founding document of The United People of Color Caucus of the NLG (TUPOCC).

Sample Budgets are available upon request- email traci@nlg.org.