The Law Firm Challenge: The South Texas Law Firm Challenge was created in 2007 to bring South Texas graduates at firms together for a common purpose: maintaining excellence in legal education at the law school. The goal of the Law Firm Challenge is to achieve 100 percent participation in giving to the law school by South Texas alumni at each law firm, corporate legal department, and law office throughout the United States that employs three or more alums.

Hays, McConn, Rice & Pickering was the first firm to meet the challenge. Managing partner and South Texas Board chair Mike Hays ’74, who initiated the program, encouraged each South Texas graduate at the firm to make a gift to the law school in any amount during the 2007–2008 academic year, so his firm could be the first to achieve 100 percent participation in giving to the College.

Among the groups having an impact on law schools – including their accrediting body, the ABA, and foundations and corporations that make grants to them – alumni giving is viewed as a measure of graduates’ satisfaction with their alma maters. The Law Firm Challenge offers an excellent way for alumni at firms to provide unrestricted support to the law school.
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To qualify for membership, 100 percent of the South Texas graduates at a firm contribute gifts of any amount to the law school’s Annual Fund or other gift initiatives during the fiscal year, which runs from September 1 to August 31.

In honor of their accomplishment, all individuals and organizations from each of the above three groups that participate in the Law Firm Challenge will be recognized in the alumni magazine, InRe. Law firms, corporate legal departments, and law offices that achieve 100 percent alumni giving to South Texas will be recognized as well by having the names of their organizations displayed on a special section of the law school’s Partners in Excellence donor wall, and in a special section of the Annual Report to Donors
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To participate in the South Texas Law Firm Challenge, please contact Alice Morris, assistant director of Development, at
713-646-1796 or amorris@stcl.edu.

Firms whose South Texas alumni achieved 100 percent in giving to the College in Fiscal Year 2010-2011 (September 1 to August 31)

Firms Whose South Texas Alumni Achieved 100 Percent Giving to the College In Fiscal Year 2009-2010
(September 1 to August 31)

Firms Whose South Texas Alumni Achieved 100 Percent Giving to the College In Fiscal Year 2008-2009
(September 1 to August 31)