TWO outstanding final-year students from the Norman Manley Law School were last Thursday awarded a scholarship and a bursary by Nunes, Schlolefield, DeLeon & Company, which is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year.

Tamara Cameron received the scholarship, valued at $405 000, and Loxly Ricketts was awarded a $100, 000 bursary.

Senior partner in the firm, Trevor DeLeon, encouraged the students to continue to work hard and persevere, noting that these were essential ingredients for success.

“I know that you will both meet these challenges with integrity, distinction and great success. Do what you have to do to become a successful lawyer,” he urged.

“The scholarship was advertised for needy students,” explained Maurice Manning, a partner in the firm. He said the firm offered the scholarship and the bursary because law school fees had increased to $303, 000 per annum, and the company was aware that a large number of students could not afford to pay the fees.

In fact, Manning said the law firm had initially intended to offer only a scholarship, but explained that the selection panel was so impressed with Cameron – a former student of Montego Bay High, and Ricketts – a former student of Jamaica College – that they decided to throw in the bursary.

“Being a lawyer has been a dream of mine since I was nine,” said Ricketts, who has an interest in constitutional law, constitutional theory and jurisprudence law. In addition, he said, he intends to pursue further studies, if he gets another scholarship.

Like Ricketts, Cameron also wanted to study law. “I knew I wanted to be someone of influence,” she said.

Cameron is interested in conveyance in law, probate, family law and bureaucratic law. Both have expressed a keen interest in working with Nunes, Schlolefield, Deleon & Company.