GENERATIONS
Whatever your personal passion, learn how your gift to Texas Tech Law will tip the scale in our favor!
Gifts benefiting the Law School help us achieve our highest strategic priorities. All investments, no matter the size, help us build programs, recruit and retain top-notch faculty, and transform the lives of our students. We are truly grateful for every contribution.
MESSAGE from the DEAN
Texas Tech University School of Law is a very special place. Every day presents a wonderful opportunity to educate promising students, many of whom have overcome remarkable challenges to study at Texas Tech Law School. With your help, we will have the resources to enable our students to reach even greater heights.
No matter where you give, how you give, or how much you give, your generosity translates into new and exciting opportunities for students. We look forward to helping you find the way to give that is most meaningful for you.
Dean and W. Frank Newton Professor of Law
Jack Wade Nowlin
STUDENTS
GIFTS SUPPORTING STUDENTS
Enrich the intellectual and community life at Texas Tech Law, and provide opportunities for talented, highly motivated students to succeed.
Many of our students have overcome significant challenges to arrive at Texas Tech Law—including simply securing the financial means to do so.
We are committed to reducing student debt and maintaining affordable tuition in this era of rising costs. And while we provide numerous generous scholarships, we are not able to meet the financial needs of all our students.
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“Scholarships relieved the financial uncertainty of coming back to school as a nontraditional student. By allowing me to focus on school, scholarships helped me excel as a first-year student. My law school experience has been life changing, and it would not have been possible without the gift of scholarship.”
Scholarships increase access and opportunity for our students.
We are also committed to developing the real-world, practical skills that every lawyer needs for a fantastic career in the profession. Lectureships enable our students to interact and develop relationships with important leaders and professionals in a variety of fields, enriching their educational experience.
Erica Lux-Flores
STUDENTS SCHOLARSHIPS
$25,000 Minimum
An endowed scholarship is an ongoing and personal way for you to provide lifechanging opportunities for generations of Texas Tech law students.
$250,000 Minimum ENDOWED ENDOWED
LECTURESHIP
An endowed lectureship will bring a speaker to campus and engage our entire community in the critical issues and challenges of our time.
GIFTS SUPPORTING
FACULTY FACULTY
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The endowed professorship I hold has provided crucial and muchneeded support for my teaching, research, and service. In particular, it has allowed me to better educate our students and put them on the best path to success as lawyers and public servants.
Jarod S. Gonzalez
J. Hadley Edgar Professor of Law
Enhance our reputation by recognizing the contributions of professors who enrich our students’ academic experience.
A law school’s reputation— and U.S. News and World Report ranking—is measured in substantial part by the strength of its faculty.
Endowed faculty appointments are a sought after and widely recognized accolade.
They are crucial for recruiting and retaining professors who will teach our students, serve the public, and drive our mission of excellence.
As a younger law school, Texas Tech Law has many outstanding professors who lack the recognition and support of an endowed professorship, and only one faculty member has an endowed chair.
Expanding endowed appointment opportunities will keep our faculty strong and build a better future for our students.
FACULTY
PROFESSORSHIP CHAIR
$250,000 Minimum
Endowed professorships are bestowed upon current faculty who have made significant contributions to teaching and scholarship. They also enable Texas Tech Law to offer competitive compensation packages to proven thought leaders.
$1,000,000 Minimum
Endowed chairs help continue a tradition of excellence in legal education as they provide long-term financial stability. Endowed chairs also supply the means to attract, retain, and honor distinguished faculty members.
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Create and support student-centered programs that provide transformative experiences and ensure graduates know how to excel in today's legal environment.
Tech Law has prepared me better than I ever could have hoped. After taking part in summer internships with students from other schools, I saw that I already had a head start in a number of practical areas.
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Sara Jaeckle
Today’s employers demand that students not only have knowledge of the law, but also the practical skills to be successful. Our reputation for producing graduates who are able to hit the ground running is built on hard-working students and their ability to gain practical
experience in our student-centered programs.
Supporting any of our current programs or establishing a new specialty program ensures our students graduate prepared for the professional obligations they will assume as a lawyer. '20
LEGAL PRACTICE PROGRAM
Our nationally ranked Legal Practice program helps students bridge the gap between theory and the real-world practice of law by introducing students to a variety of skills, including research, objective and persuasive writing, client interviewing and counseling, alternative dispute resolution, and oral advocacy.
PROGRAMS
BAR PREP PROGRAM
Our Bar Prep program equips students for success with additional programming for upper-level students on bar test-taking strategies, topical reviews, and one-on-one counseling sessions.
ENERGY LAW PROGRAM
Our energy law program provides students numerous opportunities to learn both the law and industry standards through a variety of experiences outside the traditional classroom including tours of oil and gas facilities and area wind farms.
PROGRAMS
ADVOCACY PROGRAM
From our first national championship back in 1980 to our top national rankings today, Texas Tech law students—coached by our faculty and alumni— learn and develop practical lawyering skills by conducting legal research, drafting briefs, and participating in competitions that test client counseling, negotiation, trial skills and appellate advocacy.
PROGRAMS
“Working in the Criminal Defense Clinic was the pinnacle of my entire law school career. I had the opportunity to zealously advocate, in and out of the courtroom, for indigent people of Lubbock County. I was fortunate enough to work under some great attorneys and with some great friends to advance the cause of indigent defense. With my practical experience, I feel ready to go out and begin defending others.
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LIVE-CLIENT CLINICAL PROGRAM
Our clinical program prepares students for the responsibilities of being a lawyer—counseling clients, meeting deadlines, negotiating, trial preparation, and case trials—under the supervision of excellent teachers who are also brilliant lawyers.
Ted Wenske
DEAN INITIATIVES
DEAN'S INITIATIVES GIFTS SUPPORTING
Establish a vital source of steady and adaptive support that strengthens every aspect of the Texas Tech Law academic experience.
In the face of a pandemic, the move to online instruction and the transition to working from home required a significant amount of creativity, ingenuity, and flexibility. For the Law School, a robust Foundation and the unrestricted funding provided by our generous donors helped us move quickly to purchase laptops, microphones, and webcams for students, faculty, and staff who needed these items to learn and work remotely.
Throughout a normal academic year, there are numerous opportunities and challenges that arise. The needs of our students constantly change with the legal market. Unrestricted gifts keep the Law School responsive to our students' immediate needs, allow us to capitalize on opportunities, and respond quickly to challenges as they arise.
The admitted student travel stipend is what ultimately allowed me to make the decision to attend Texas Tech University School of Law. I was unable to make a campus visit without the travel stipend, and I honestly would not have considered attending Texas Tech Law had I not visited. I am very grateful that I was able to visit this incredible university.
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Alicia Mpande
INITIATIVES
Give Dean Nowlin the power to say "yes" to innovative ideas and unexpected opportunities.
STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS
When a second-year student excels during their first year and is in the top 10% of the class, unrestricted funds ensure we can provide that student with a much deserved scholarship.
ADMITTED STUDENT TRAVEL
When an admitted student would like to visit the Law School but needs help getting to Lubbock, unrestricted funds can bring that student to campus to see what Texas Tech Law has to offer.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
When a promising student needs help offsetting the cost to present at a professional or academic conference or travel to an interview for a federal or state supreme court judicial clerkship, unrestricted funds allow us to get that student to the conference or interview.
ENDOWMENTSTYPES OF GIFTS
ENDOWED GIFTS
Accomplish your philanthropic goals while helping the Law School permanently support a scholarship, professorship, or other initiative.
The wonderful thing about creating an endowment is that the principle will remain intact in perpetuity.
We use spendable earnings to support students, faculty, or academic programs as designated by the donor. Earned interest from endowments provides necessary funds that serve as crucial elements in student and faculty recruitment and retention.
ESTABLISH AN ENDOWMENT
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There are several endowment types to choose from listed in this brochure. Give in a way that is most meaningful to you. Give us a call at 806-834-4910 OR email us at foundation.law@ttu.edu Share Your PassionDetermine the Type and Purpose of your Fund Fund Your Gift
ENDOWMENTS
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Many donors choose to name their fund with their name or their family’s name, a favorite professor, or as a memorial to a loved one. If you wish to remain anonymous, perhaps select a name that reflects your fund’s academic goal.
ENDOWMENT PAYOUT
Principal
$25,000
$100,000
$250,000
$500,000
$1,000,000
$2,000,000
Estimated Annual Payout (Based on 4%)
$1,000 $4,000 $10,000 $20,000 $40,000
$80,000
*Endowment gifts may be pledged over a three-to-five year period.
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Once the gift agreement is signed and the endowment is funded, annual payouts from the earnings will be used toward the stated purpose and will continue in perpetuity while leaving the principal intact. We will send you fund activity reports annually to keep you informed.
TYPES OF GIFTS
PLANNED
PLANNED GIFTS
Gain financial and tax benefits for you and your family while leaving a lasting legacy for the law school.
Major planned gifts from donors, as part of financial estate plans or will bequests, provide funds for long-term investments for the Texas Tech Law School Foundation. These crucial investments are a wonderful way to leave a philanthropic legacy.
PLANNED GIVING
Name Texas Tech Law School Foundation as a beneficiary of your will, retirement account, annuity, or other account.
ANNUITY GIFTS
Give and get back with an annuity gift that supports the program of your choosing today and enables you to receive guaranteed income for life.
As part of your estate planning, we are happy to meet with you to make arrangements. We also work with families at the appropriate time to fulfill their loved ones’ final wishes and bequests.
PLANNED GIFTS
Make a gift of real estate, securities, or other property as part of your impact on the future of Texas Tech Law School.
Establish a major gift with tax benefits that can continue to provide for yourself or your loved ones while sustaining the Texas Tech Law School.
ANNUAL
OF GIFTS
ANNUAL GIFTS TYPES
Provide a crucial source of funding with an immediate positive impact for our students, faculty, and programs.
Annual gifts provide an important source of flexible revenue that has an impact on today's students, faculty, and programs. These gifts are how our alumni give back to the Law School that has given them so much and pay it forward to ensure that future lawyers have the same wonderful experience.
Annual support can be just as significant as endowment support. For example, at over 8,000 members strong, a donation of $100 from every alum would generate $800,000 in spendable funds, the equivalent of a $20 million endowment.
GIFTS
TEXAS TECH LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION
The Texas Tech Law School Foundation, a public charity, advances the mission of Texas Tech University School of Law through financial support and stewardship. All gifts to the Foundation are tax deductible. The Foundation is led by a Board of Trustees comprised of the Law School Dean and about forty distinguished Law School alumni. These trustees are engaged, committed, and generous alumni who are often called upon to contribute their time, expertise, and financial means.
