[Hamp-law] Drexel Law School to Be Named the Thomas R. Kline School of Law

[Carin Rank]

FYI-  to decrease later confusion about what happened to Drexel, and 
where Kline School of Law is.




A Message from the President
Message from the President
	

In Honor of Unprecedented Gift, Drexel Law School to Be Named the Thomas 
R. Kline School of Law

I am privileged to announce a landmark gift that will transform legal 
education at Drexel for generations to come: a $50 million commitment by 
Tom Kline, one of America's most respected and influential trial lawyers 
and a champion of the elevation of trial advocacy training for law 
students. Tom's vision and generosity will help our law school build the 
economic foundation needed to navigate today's challenging legal 
education climate. To commemorate this, the largest single gift in 
Drexel's history, our law school will be named the Thomas R. Kline 
School of Law.

Mr. Kline's commitment to Drexel will carry great significance for 
lawyers across America. His important trial victories on behalf of 
catastrophically injured persons have contributed to the shaping of the 
law in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and his many jury verdicts and 
settlements are well known for resulting in corporate, institutional and 
governmental changes through the civil justice system, in addition to 
compensation for his clients.

Mr. Kline has consistently been named one of the top lawyers in the 
state and nation by leading publications. He is recognized as the No. 1 
lawyer in Pennsylvania for the past 11 consecutive years by the 
peer-reviewed /Super Lawyers/ survey. He is a past president of the 
Inner Circle of Advocates, described by /The Washington Post/ as "a 
select group of the nation's 100 most celebrated trial lawyers." Mr. 
Kline is named among the top 500 of all lawyers in America by 
/Lawdragon/, is listed in /The National Law Journal/'s "Hall of Fame" 
and recently received a lifetime achievement award from /The Legal 
Intelligencer/.

Mr. Kline served four U.S. senators over two decades and chaired the 
Federal Judicial Nominating Commission for the U.S. District Court for 
the Eastern District of Pennsylvania for more than a decade. He serves 
as both a Drexel University trustee and chair of the advisory board for 
Drexel's law school.

Dedicated to both the short-term and long-term strength of the Kline 
School of Law, Mr. Kline's gift includes the conveyance of the historic 
Beneficial Savings Fund Society Building at 12th and Chestnut streets to 
house the Thomas R. Kline Institute of Trial Advocacy of the Kline 
School of Law.

Drexel's law students and faculty have built exceptional advocacy 
programs---including national successes in trial team 
competitions---utilizing, to date, modest resources. Once restored and 
renovated, this grand Horace Trumbauer-designed bank building located in 
the heart of Philadelphia's legal community will house state-of-the-art 
facilities for students to build and hone their advocacy skills. The 
building will be transformational to the Market East corridor and serve 
as an anchor to the redeveloping neighborhood.

The Thomas R. Kline Institute of Trial Advocacy will dramatically change 
the entire range of the law school's activities. It will advance 
courtroom simulation for the JD program and co-curricular programming 
and will enhance faculty interaction with students who undertake 
advocacy-based co-ops and clinical work. Additionally, it will support 
the development of post-graduate LLM and continuing legal education 
trial and appellate advocacy programs.

The gift will also serve the law school's overarching mission to be a 
center of legal excellence in Pennsylvania, and a national leader in 
experience-based legal education, already a strength of the law school. 
I'm proud that our law school will be forever associated with Tom Kline.

This milestone reflects the outstanding and tireless work of the law 
faculty and professional staff, led by Founding Dean Roger Dennis, over 
the school's eight-year history, and Mr. Kline's association with the 
law school from its founding.

This is a great day for Drexel University, and I am extremely excited 
for the future of the Thomas R. Kline School of Law.

Sincerely,

John A. Fry
President

	

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Contact: Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law, 3320 Market 
Street, Suite 100, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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