As reported in the New Hampshire Bar News:

University of New Hampshire School of Law has been selected as one of three 2015 recipients of the ABA E. Smythe Gambrell Professionalism Award for its innovative Daniel Webster Scholar [DWS] Honors Program.

A program of the ABA Standing Committee on Professionalism, the award comes with a $3,500 cash prize, supported by the E. Smythe Gambrell Fund for Professionalism. The committee and the award judges selected the DWS because it “represents an exemplary and extraordinarily innovative approach to preparing qualified students for a life in the law by immersing them in experiential learning and exposing them to exceptional professional development resources and role models.

“Structurally sound and demonstrably sustainable, the Daniel Webster Scholar Honors Program follows a practical and extremely thoughtful approach to developing client-ready lawyers,” wrote Frederick Ury, chair of the ABA Standing Committee on Professionalism, in a letter to Garvey.
 
The competitive DWS program starts in the second year of law school, with about 24 students accepted each year. The intensively hands-on learning experience involves frequent self-assessments and feedback from professors and members of the NH Board of Bar Examiners. The program acts as a two-year bar exam, with successful completion leading to admission to the New Hampshire bar. The IAALS study found that students who participated in the program were more likely to do well in client interviews as compared to attorneys within their first two years of practice who took the regular bar exam.
 
The Gambrell Award will be presented in conjunction with the ABA Annual Meeting in Chicago at a joint luncheon of the National Association of Bar Executives, the National Conference of Bar Presidents and the National Conference of Bar Foundations on Friday, July 31.