Honoring Your Impact
Honoring Your Impact
Supporting students at the Law School has been a decades-long collective effort for the Class of 1983.
Years ago, when members of the class reunion committee were on a call planning their gift, they considered funding a scholarship.
This year, the Arthur D. Morris Law Library’s Special Collections area acquired a 1578 edition of Edmund Plowden’s “Commentaries” — a very significant collection of law reports from that period. The book was purchased with funds from a bequest from Thomas D. Soutter ’62.
Endowed and named unrestricted funds, such as the Phipps Family Unrestricted Endowment, notably help secure UVA Law’s long-term needs.
Earlier this year, Kate Barrington McGregor ’14 became the youngest alumnus to fund an unrestricted endowment at the Law School by creating the Barrington McGregor Unrestricted Endowment together with her husband, Cody McGregor, and the Barrington Family Foundation.
The Elaine R. Jones ’70 Scholarship, named in honor of the Law School’s first Black alumna, was established on the occasion of Jones’ 50th reunion. The Law School has raised more than $1,000,000 for the scholarship fund since its launch two years ago.
By most measures, Brian Leung ’08 is still a young man, but when he began to consider his estate, he wanted to remember the Law School with a planned gift, also known as a legacy gift. He is one of the youngest alums to declare that he intends to leave the Law School such a gift.