Overview

Thank you for another successful year of annual giving! Please watch this thank you to all those who contributed to Stanford Law School in fiscal year 2007.

"We are now engaged in a campaign whose goal and purpose is nothing less than to reinvent legal education. That sounds audacious and ambitious. But it truly is our goal, and I believe that if any institution is capable of pulling it off, it is Stanford."

Larry Kramer,
Richard E. Lang Professor of Law and Dean

The law school has identified priorities that total $205 million, an unprecedented undertaking that will require tremendous effort. These priorities include:

• A New Model for Legal Education: Forging Interdisciplinary Opportunities
• An Essential International Perspective: Teaching in a Global Environment
• The Case for Clinical Education: Bridging the Gap between the Classroom and the Courtroom
• A Center for Public Service and Public Interest Law: Renewing Our Commitment
• Core Support: Sustaining the Law School's Foundation of Excellence

Message from the Dean

Transforming Legal Education

The world in which lawyers operate today has changed dramatically in the last decade. And the pace of change is accelerating. Business, medicine, government, education, science, and technology all have been transformed, have grown immensely more specialized, and have become far more complex. Legal education must address these changes and adapt. Understanding the fundamentals of law and learning to "think like a lawyer" are important and remain the very heart of what it is to be a lawyer. At their best, lawyers are problem solvers, and today's problems—whether in the public or private sector—require skills beyond those taught in the traditional legal curriculum. How can a lawyer truly comprehend and grapple with a complex intellectual property dispute without understanding the technology at issue? What counselor can effectively advise a client about investing in China or India without understanding their particular legal structures or lack of structure, to say nothing of their different cultural expectations and norms?

Lawyers today need to be educated more broadly if they are to serve their clients and society well. It will take law and lawyers to translate the discoveries and innovations of researchers in other fields into practical policy. It will take law and lawyers to ensure that these solutions are fairly and properly implemented and that individual rights and interests are secured. To play their essential part, lawyers will require a new set of tools that can be forged only from a solid multidisciplinary education—a bold step that will transform modern legal education as we know it. Why Stanford? The answer is simple but compelling. Of the great research universities, Stanford is unmatched in its excellence across the many relevant disciplines—law, business, medicine, engineering, computer science, natural and biological sciences, economics, political science, education, environmental science, and on and on. The Stanford Challenge will bring this cross disciplinary excellence together in a focused and unprecedented way. Three multidisciplinary research initiatives define this undertaking: the International Initiative, the Initiative on the Environment and Sustainability, and the Initiative on Human Health. The law school has a crucial role to play in each as we train the next generation of leaders through innovative interdisciplinary and international programs, new and expanded forms of clinical education, and a renewed commitment to public service.

I invite you to download our case statement for a more detailed account of our aspirations — aspirations we believe can and must be realized. We aim to build on the strength of our faculty by enhancing interdisciplinary teaching and research, expanding our infrastructure, broadening our international curriculum, providing the best clinical education in the country, cultivating the value of public service among our students, and growing our financial aid and loan repayment programs. These represent critically important investments in not just the future of Stanford Law School, but of legal education. Please join us. We need your energy, your time, your ideas, and, yes, your financial contributions. I promise you will find the effort worthy of your support.

With Warmest Appreciation,

Richard E. Lang Professor of Law and Dean

Campaign Priorities

The Law School's Challenge

Our faculty and students have a vital role to play as we work to transform legal education. So too do our alumni and friends, whose generosity, intellectual engagement, and support have always made it possible for us to turn the promise of our dreams into practical solutions. The law school has identified priorities that total $205 million, an unprecedented undertaking that will require tremendous effort.

A New Model for Legal Education:

We must invest in the best and brightest scholars and students to seek new and effective solutions to our world’s greatest challenges. Stanford Law School seeks support to add new faculty, increase funding for scholarships and fellowships, support innovative interdisciplinary and joint degree programs, and foster a collaborative teaching and learning environment.

Building for the Future:

Interdisciplinary education can be greatly enhanced by offering students opportunities for increased social interaction and collaborative learning. Two critical building projects will contribute enormously to achieving this end. The Munger Graduate Residence, a new concept in university living, will bring together graduate students from across the university, promoting interaction among the different professions and disciplines. But new living accommodations are not enough if we are to build out our faculty and interdisciplinary programs. We must also expand our office and classroom infrastructure. To accommodate this anticipated growth, the law school will complete the Crown Quadrangle with a new academic building.

An Essential International Perspective:

We must equip our students – our future leaders – to work across borders and cultures to ensure that effective solutions to our global challenges are fairly and properly implemented. Stanford Law School seeks support to augment our faculty with experts in the areas of international trade, tax, business, and development, to broaden the focus of our traditional legal curriculum, and to grow our advanced degree programs for international students.

The Case for Clinical Education:

We must provide our students with additional opportunities to hone their legal skills through hands-on, practical experience, while instilling in them a sense of the immense influence lawyers have on improving the lives of others whether as practicing attorneys, business leaders, or public servants. Stanford Law School seeks support to expand our clinical program and faculty.

Public Service and Public Interest Law:

We must educate our students about the special role lawyers can play in our society and across the globe—whether in the context of complex business mergers, international treaty negotiations, or criminal defense. Stanford Law School seeks support to establish a new Center for Public Service and Public Interest Law and to expand our Loan Repayment Assistance Program for public service graduates.

Core Support:

We must continue to attract the most talented scholars and students and provide them with sufficient space to do their best work. Stanford Law School seeks support to endow professorships, faculty scholar chairs, and graduate scholarships and fellowships; to increase funding for financial aid and innovative interdisciplinary programs; to build new academic and residential space; and to fund a wide range of annual programs.

Please join us as Stanford Law School continues to inspire, innovate, and lead.

Ways to Give

There are a variety of ways to invest in The Stanford Challenge at the Law School, including those highlighted below. While a major focus of this campaign is to secure long-term support, we need gifts at all levels to ensure success.

The Law Fund

Annual gifts to the Law Fund allow the dean to earmark funds for the school's highest priorities, including faculty support, student scholarships, and capital improvements.

Please visit givingtostanford.stanford.edu to contribute to the Law Fund.

Expendable Funds

Gifts to expendable funds are spent as they come in and may be made in support of specific programs, research, or people of the donor's choosing—for example, an established or new interdisciplinary program or clinic.

Endowed Funds

An endowed fund—most often for a professorship or fellowship—establishes a permanent fund that recognizes the donor or someone the donor wishes to honor in perpetuity and provides Stanford with a continuing source of support.

Capital Gifts

Term Endowment

Term endowment funds are spent over a specific period of time during which they are invested with the university's endowment to take advantage of potentially higher investment returns. These gifts recognize that a valuable set of activities may not exist in perpetuity, but that a significant investment for a period of time can help them grow and achieve a measure of stability.

Planned Giving

Through careful planning, a donor may be able to make a sizable contribution to the school through a bequest or living trust; by designating Stanford as the beneficiary of a life insurance policy, IRA, or other retirement plan; or by means of a "life income gift" that can provide a donor with considerable tax savings currently as well as an income for life.

The Law Fund

Dear Stanford Law School alumni and friends,

Thank you for your interest in giving to Stanford Law School. Whether you are a loyal annual contributor or you are thinking about making your first donation to the law school, your support could not come at a better time. We are joining the rest of the university in The Stanford Challenge, a major campaign to refit graduate education for the 21st century, and annual contributions to the Law Fund will be a critical part of our success.

Annual donations to the Law Fund give us the flexibility to allocate resources to the school’s most pressing needs. Even the most basic elements of our operation – recruiting and retaining faculty, attracting high-caliber students, maintaining a dynamic and relevant curriculum, providing space for teaching and research – are possible only with the annual support of our alumni and friends.

Thank you again for considering a gift to the Law Fund. Gifts of every size are appreciated, and will make a tangible difference in the lives of current and future students.

With warmest appreciation,

Richard E. Lang Professor of Law and Dean

Corporate Giving

Stanford Law School Affiliate Programs

Stanford Law School offers law firms, corporations, and foundations the opportunity to participate as Program Affiliates and event sponsors in three distinct interdisciplinary programs:

• The Stanford Program in Law, Economics & Business (LEB)
• The Stanford Program in Law, Science & Technology (LST)
• The Stanford Community Law Clinic (SCLC)

Program Affiliates provide annual support for teaching and program development; in return, affiliates and their clients gain access to Stanford Law School's leading-edge executive programs and exclusive affiliate working groups. These programs bring together renowned scholars, lawyers, corporate leaders, investment bankers, accountants, venture capitalists, technologists, and key regulatory officials to share their expertise and discuss critical challenges facing legal practitioners, business executives, and policy makers. Affiliates also have opportunities to underwrite events hosted by program areas as well as law school student organizations and journals. Underwriters and their programs are formally recognized at sponsored events, in publications, and online.

Policy and Research Project Partnerships

Law firms, corporations, and foundations also provide support for a wide range of interdisciplinary policy and research projects at Stanford Law School. Through each of these projects, the law school aims to raise professional understanding and public awareness of legal, business and ethical challenges at the intersection of law, economics and business, and law, science and technology. Policy and research projects undertaken at the Law School during 2005-2006 include:

• Stanford Securities Class Action Clearinghouse (SCAC)
• Open Source Corporate Governance Reporting System (OSCGRS)
• Stanford Intellectual Property Litigation Clearinghouse (IPLC)
• Transatlantic Technology Law Forum(TTLF)

For more information about affiliate, event sponsorship, or project partnership opportunities, please contact Julia Erwin-Weiner, Deputy Director of Development, at 650 725.8985 or jeweiner@stanford.edu.

Law Firm Alumni Giving

2006 marked the second year of an exciting annual giving program for law firms. Through the Law Firm Alumni Giving Program, 25 law firms made a collective effort to increase contributions to the law school from their partner, of counsel, and associate attorneys. More than 50 partner and associate volunteers contacted their fellow alumni and colleagues to encourage a gift to the school. As a result, over 320 alumni in participating firms contributed more than $1 million and increased overall participation by 10% over 2005 participation levels.

We thank all participating firms, especially those who demonstrated high levels of support Stanford Law School welcomes all law firms that would like to participate in its Law Firm Alumni Giving Program. For more information, please contact the Office of External Relations, at 650 736.1238 or at annualgiving@law.stanford.edu.

Law Firm Honor Roll

Most Dollars Raised 1. Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP 2. Cooley Godward Kronish LLP 3. Latham & Watkins LLP	Highest Overall Participation 1. Hogan & Hartson LLP 2. Fenwick & West LLP 3. Sidley Austin LLP
Most Dean's Circle Donors (tie) Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Latham & Watkins LLP Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati LLP	Most Partners' Circle Donors O'Melveny & Myers LLP
Highest Partner Participation Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP	Highest Associate Participation Hogan & Hartson, LLP
FY 2006 Total Giving By Firm	FY 2006 Participation By Firm