Access to Justice
The Center sponsors research and service projects to improve access to civil legal assistance and build partnerships among researchers, service providers, and policymakers.
The Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough Center on Professionalism was created in 1999 with a gift from the firm’s partners. Its purpose is to enrich teaching and research on the legal profession and to promote professionalism, civic leadership, and public service in the practice of law.
The Center sponsors research and service projects to improve access to civil legal assistance and build partnerships among researchers, service providers, and policymakers.
The Center hosts a roundtable series for state agency general counsel to discuss legislation affecting state agencies and other topics of common interest.
The Center sponsors mentoring and judicial observation programs to promote professionalism among law students, and was a founding member of the National Legal Mentoring Consortium.
The Center supports up to three fellowships per year in honor of Claude Mood Scarborough. The goal of the fellowships is to encourage lawyers and law students to develop initiatives for improving access to justice and professionalism in the practice of law.
The Center partners with the Veterans Legal Clinic and Liyun Zhang, a research scientist at the Children’s Law Center, to conduct annual assessments for the Clinic.