Legal Outreach

We are honored to announce Taniqua Huguley-Chaplin as our inaugural Alumni Impact Champion. Selected by esteemed peers and leaders in the Legal Outreach community, Taniqua’s remarkable journey from a Legal Outreach student to CEO is a testament to the power of leadership, service, and gratitude. She is a shining example of what this inaugural award stands for.

Please visit our event page to learn more about her and the other honorees.

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We are proud to announce the Legal Outreach 43rd Annual Benefit, an evening celebrating the people and partnerships helping shape the next generation of leaders, advocates, and future-ready students.

This year’s benefit honors champions across education, public service, and justice whose commitment continues to expand opportunity and inspire impact. Together, we gather around a shared vision: cultivating a landscape of growth where students can thrive, lead, and reimagine what is possible.

Join us as we celebrate community, excellence, and the enduring power of investing in young people.

LINK: https://legaloutreach.org/43-anniversary-benefit/

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Law is a powerful framework, grounded in critical thinking, that elevates education and success.

Congratulations to our 2026 Spring Debate Winners! 🎉

Your confidence, preparation, and ability to lead with your voice truly set you apart. We’re so proud of all you’ve accomplished and excited for what’s ahead.

Legal Outreach is proud to be a 2026 NY Bar Foundation Grant Recipient.

We’re proud to welcome Wes White, Partner at Orrick, to the Legal Outreach Advisory Board. His leadership and insight will help strengthen our mission to empower the next generation of changemakers.

It’s that time again.

Legal Outreach’s Constitutional Law Debates are right around the corner, and we’re inviting members of the legal community to join us as volunteer judges.

Each year, our students step into the role of advocates, presenting appellate-style arguments and sharpening the skills that will carry them into college, law school, and leadership.

We’re now making our final call for judges for next week’s debates.

If you’re interested in supporting the next generation of legal minds, we would love to have you join us.

At Legal Outreach, we honor the women who have built movements, reshaped systems, and created opportunities for others to lead.

This past Presidents’ Day, we unveiled our inaugural AI Design Conference, and it exceeded all expectations.

The morning featured four in-depth AI workshops led by our Director of Information Technology, Mr. Miah, guiding students through what AI is, how it works, the role of ethics, and how it applies in the real world.

After lunch, students stepped into Ethics By Design, our agile hackathon incubator built around one central principle: innovation must be responsible. Working in teams of four, students assumed real-world roles including UI Developer, UX Developer, Project Manager, Scrum Master, and Ethics Manager. In just two hours, more than 30 students built fully conceptualized AI applications from scratch.

The apps reflected both thoughtfulness and purpose. Students created tools focused on health, parenting, social engagement, and community support. The winning team developed an Immigration Rights App designed to help immigrants better understand their rights, access legal resources, and navigate critical information with clarity and dignity.

What distinguished Ethics By Design was not only the innovation, but the governance. Each team built with ethical guardrails, drafted an ethics charter, and demonstrated responsible AI design as part of the judging criteria. Ethics was not an afterthought; it was a requirement.

We were honored to have LO alumni, Jarod Groome, AE of Synthesia, and Patrice Thomas, CEO and Founder of TraRemedy Holdings Inc., serve as panel judges alongside Executive Director, Tamika Edwards. Our alumni, who also developed their own app, shared their career journeys with current students and stressed the importance of remaining curious.

Through our growing partnership with Mercer Labs, Museum of Art and Technology, the winning team received passes to experience a museum dedicated to the integration of art and technology.
In one afternoon, students moved from learning about AI to building it responsibly. The future of innovation is not only bright, it is ethical.