We are now accepting applications for all of the scholarships below. Applications for all are due OCTOBER 31, 2025 by 5PM PST.

Appellate Advocacy Scholarship

Bryan Harnetiaux Appellate Advocacy Scholarship

Appellate Advocacy Scholarship Application < click link to apply
Our organization is committed to ensuring that our members, their clients, and Washington residents more broadly have meaningful access to justice in Washington’s courts. One important way WSAJ serves this goal is by facilitating the development of the law, both through its government affairs team, which protects consumer and worker rights in the legislature, and through its amicus team, which regularly appears in Washington Courts of Appeals and the Supreme Court as an appellate organization.

In keeping with these aims, WSAJ has created an annual scholarship of $5,000 to be awarded to a law student who has a demonstrated interest in appellate advocacy.

Recipients of the Appellate Advocacy Scholarship

2026 Alejandra Tinoco Bonilla – Seattle University

+ Past Recipients

WSAJ Bar Preparation Scholarships

Please read the application instructions carefully before submitting. These scholarships are for individuals who successfully demonstrate in their application materials their intent to practice plaintiff-side civil law.

Women of WSAJ Bar Preparation Scholarship

WOW Bar Prep Scholarship Application < click link to apply
In 1993, the Women of WSAJ (WOW) section was established to encourage female-identifying members to exchange ideas and create mentorship relationships with  other female attorneys to further the mission of WSAJ. To support aspiring female-identifying plaintiffs' attorneys, WOW provides women law school graduates and APR 6 law clerk graduates with scholarships to help defray the costs of bar review courses. 

Recipients of the WOW Bar Preparation Scholarship

2026 Chloe Birkmaier – Gonzaga University
2026 Oksana Davletshina – Seattle University

+ Past Recipients

Diversity Bar Preparation Scholarship

Diversity Bar Prep Scholarship Application < click link to apply
WSAJ is committed to implementing strategies that will result in significant and measurable progress towards increasing diversity in the plaintiff's bar. To help achieve this endeavor, WSAJ has pledged scholarship monies to assist diverse individuals in covering the tuition cost of a Themis bar preparation course. Diversity refers to individuals who self-identify with those groups historically discriminated against and/or those groups that are historically under-represented in the legal profession based on disability, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression.

Recipients of the WSAJ Diversity Bar Preparation Scholarship

2026 Mirtha Lopez – Seattle University
2026 Salvador Salazar Cano – Lewis & Clark College
2026 Mingyue Zhou – Seattle University

+ Past Recipients

LGBTQ Bar Preparation Scholarship

LGBTQ Bar Prep Scholarship Application < click link to apply
In December of 2016, WSAJ created its LGBTQ section, a group open to all WSAJ members to focus on LGBTQ issues in the law, as well as to provide a safe, open and honest environment for LGBTQ members to discuss and confront issues that arise in their day-to-day practices and legal communities. To support aspiring plaintiff’s attorneys from the LGBTQ community, the section raises funds from its membership to provide scholarships to help defray the costs of a Themis bar review course to law school graduates and APR 6 law clerk graduates who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or otherwise self-identify as a part of the queer community.

Recipients of the WSAJ LGBTQ Bar Preparation Scholarship

2023 Ashlyn Hannus – Gonzaga University

+ Past Recipients