We are very excited to announce that this year we will be trialing a brand new scholarship program called the Family Law Office of Eric Michael Vallillee Youth & the Law Scholarship! This scholarship is funded privately by the Family Law Office of Eric Michael Vallillee.

Our scholarship is intended to provide a grant of $1,000 to an individual who will be attending post-secondary school this fall, and who has overcome a personal challenge as a youth with the Canadian or a provincial justice system which could include having been in conflict with the law (criminal charges), a personal experience of involvement with a Children’s Aid Society/Family Services, homelessness, or other difficulties with social or justice systems.

To protect the confidentiality of our applicants due to the sensitive nature of many of their experiences, we will only be publishing the winner’s initials and type of school program they will be attending, alongside a short message that they provide. We will not publish the winner’s full name, the name of their school, or what their personal experiences were, so any qualified individual should feel safe and at ease applying.

Depending on the quality of this year’s submissions and the success of the program, we may continue this scholarship as an annual program in future years as well.

Please review the eligibility criteria and terms & conditions for this scholarship by clicking here. Clients of our office and anyone associated with current litigation that our office is involved in are not eligible for this scholarship and should not submit information to our office.

Application Deadline: 11:59 pm Eastern Time (Toronto/London, ON) on Monday, August 3, 2020.

To Apply for the 2020 Scholarship Online, Please Click Here! 

Don’t have a Google Account? Please note that you will need to sign in with a Google account to use the online application so that you can upload your documents. If you don’t want to use a Google account, please click here instead to download a copy of the questions that need to be filled out and submitted with your supporting documents either by e-mail to eric.v@valaw.ca or by courier/mail to:

Family Law Office of Eric Michael Vallillee
Suite 440
200 Queens Avenue
London, ON N6A 1J3

We recommend that you do use the online form if possible. If you are sending your application in to our office by courier or mail, it must be received at our office by the deadline.

If you know of a deserving student, please share this page with them, and let them know about the application deadline!