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Jack Bernstein Injury Lawyers

Fall 2025 UNLV Scholarship

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Fall 2025 UNLV Scholarship

Are you a current undergraduate student at UNLV enrolled for the Fall 2025 semester? Do you care deeply about advocating for others, raising awareness about legal rights, or making a difference in your community?

If so, we invite you to apply for the Jack Bernstein Injury Lawyers Scholarship Contest. Three scholarships will be awarded $3,000, $2,000, and $1,000 to qualified UNLV students who submit the most compelling essays (1st, 2nd, and 3rd place).

By offering financial support to help with tuition, books, or living expenses, Jack Bernstein Injury Lawyers aims to empower students to speak out, stand up for others, and promote awareness around personal injury law, legal justice, and community safety. Winners will be selected after the Fall 2025 semester ends, and awards will be distributed before Spring 2026 tuition deadlines.

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How To Enter

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Review Eligibility:

Before entering the contest, review the Terms & Conditions requirements and the rules and regulations below to make sure you qualify.

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Complete Application:

Complete the contest application form below providing all required information.

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Submit:

Once your essay is written, save as a Word Doc or PDF and submit with your scholarship contest application.

Essay Topic And Guidelines

Essay must be submitted with the application, which should include the author’s name, address, phone number, UNLV email address, college (including the date of graduation), and student ID number.

  • All entries must be typed, double-spaced, and saved as a Word Doc or PDF.
  • Do not add pictures or graphics
  • Essays that do not meet the word count requirement will be eliminated. (The essay title or added references / footnotes do not contribute to the total word count.)
  • A contestant’s teacher, counselor, or parent may check the essay for punctuation, grammar, and/or spelling, but the essay MUST BE the original work of the student making the submission.
  • Contestants will be judged based solely on their essay.

USING YOUR OWN WORDS, PLEASE ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTION IN 500-700 WORDS:

What Can Be Done to Raise Awareness About Distracted Driving Among Young Adults?

Explore the dangers of distracted driving and propose education or advocacy strategies to reduce its impact on college campuses and beyond.

Rules And Regulations

  • Submission deadline is 12/12/2025
  • Essay must be the original work of the contestant. Plagiarism will automatically disqualify your entry.
  • Contest awards and decisions are final unless an entrant is disqualified.
  • Essay submissions that do not meet the requirements (listed above) or sent after the application deadline will not be considered.
  • Essay award winners grant Jack Bernstein Injury Lawyers the right to use their essay content in connection with this contest, marketing efforts, and publication of the essay, as well as the right to use the winners’ names and/or identifying information to promote the contest.
  • Jack Bernstein Injury Lawyers will read and judge each eligible essay submitted on time; essays submitted after the deadline will not be accepted or read.
  • Contest prizes (scholarship award monies) can be revoked after awards are given if entrants are discovered to be ineligible or found to have broken contest rules.
  • Jack Bernstein Injury Lawyers reserves the right to change the submission deadline to an earlier deadline if application submissions greatly exceed the number projected. Prospective applicants should enter as early as possible.
  • Should Jack Bernstein Injury Lawyers have to change any contest rules, we will notify participants via email. If participants are dissatisfied with changes, they may retract their submission.
  • All federal, state, and local charges or taxes on prizes must be paid by award winners.
  • Essay submissions for this contest become property of Jack Bernstein Injury Lawyers to be used and reproduced.

View the Scholarship Terms & Conditions.

Essay Submission Form

First Name(Required)
Last Name(Required)
Address(Required)
Accepted file types: pdf, docx, Max. file size: 50 MB.