Since Teague Law’s founding, the team has championed victims of serious accidents in North Georgia and its rural communities. Today, our Ellijay personal injury lawyers want to extend a helping hand to students who have grown up impacted by the justice system in rural communities.
Students attending United States trade schools, colleges, universities, and graduate schools can apply for Teague Law’s Justice in Rural Communities Scholarship. This scholarship promises $2,500 to a student who can write a 1,000-word essay discussing the unique challenges facing the justice system in rural communities.
Students have until December 15, 2025, to complete and submit their essays.
Who Is Eligible?
Teague Law invites undergraduate and graduate students attending United States colleges, universities, graduate schools, law schools, and trade schools to apply for the Justice in Rural Communities Scholarship. Students must submit proof that they’ve been accepted at or enrolled at their institution of choice to qualify.
Students must also agree to the scholarship’s terms and conditions and submit all necessary application materials if they want their application to move forward. Students should submit their 1,000-word scholarship essays in PDF format before filling out the scholarship form on this page.
Scholarship Essay Topic
Students interested in applying for the Justice in Rural Communities Scholarship must write an essay of no more than 1,000 words about the unique challenges facing the justice system in rural communities.
The team encourages students to think critically about people trying to access the justice system in rural communities and make recommendations discussing how lawyers and law firms can make their services more accessible to rural communities.
These essays should be wholly original. Do not use AI to generate a scholarship essay for the Justice in Rural Communities Scholarship. The inappropriate use of AI to draft an essay will see a student’s application removed from the applicant pool.
Additional Essay Requirements
The scholarship selection committee requests that students include the following elements in their essays:
- A catchy title
- A bibliography and in-line citations, as appropriate
Students should also draft a header that includes the following information:
- The student’s full name
- The student’s school ID number
- The name of the student’s academic institution
- The mailing address for that institution’s financial aid office
- The phone number and email address for the financial aid office
The team expects students to save their PDFs in the following format: “[Scholarship Name and Year] – [Student Name].”
Application Deadline
Students have until December 15, 2025, to complete their applications for the Justice in Rural Communities Scholarship. The scholarship selection committee will not consider applications submitted after this deadline passes.
The team then reserves up to three months to select its scholarship winner. Please do not contact Teague Law with questions about the status of a student’s application during this time. The team cannot provide families or students with updates on the application selection process.
All applications must be submitted with all of their required materials and by the December 15, 2025, deadline to qualify.
Terms and Conditions
All applicants to this scholarship must meet the eligibility requirements as laid out on the scholarship application page, including the following:
- Applicant must be enrolled at a college, trade school, law school, university, or graduate school
- Applicant must be at least 18 years old at the age of enrollment
- Applicant must have residency in the United States
- Applicant must be in good academic standing
- Applicant must submit some personal information, including name, contact information, and academic information
- Applicant must author an original essay on the scholarship topic provided
Anyone who meets the following conditions is NOT eligible to apply:
- Employees or children of employees of Teague Law
- Past recipients of the Justice in Rural Communities Scholarship
- Applicants who are unable/unwilling to be interviewed by a representative of Teague Law if they were to be awarded a scholarship.
- Applicants who submit the same essay for multiple scholarships or multiple years in a row
Selection & Award Notification Process
The scholarship selection committee will only consider applications for the Justice in Rural Communities Scholarship that arrive before the December 15, 2025, deadline. The team will not consider incomplete applications or applications with AI-generated scholarships.
The selection process will take between one and three months following the submission deadline. Age, race, religion, gender, national origin, familial status, or other protected classes will have no influence on the committee’s decision.
Unfortunately, the firm cannot share scholarship updates with non-winners at this time. Once the committee picks its winner, a representative will email that winner and arrange a transfer of funds to the academic institution of their choice. Teague Law will then publish a press release and blog post celebrating the winner’s achievements.
Previous Winners
Teague Law looks forward to celebrating its future Justice in Rural Communities Scholarship winners in press releases and blog posts here. Applicants can keep an eye on this site for more information about previous scholarship recipients.