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Unprecedented Gift, Drexel Law School to Be
Named the Thomas R. Kline School of Law</p>
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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.</p>
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block; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px;">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.</p>
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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 <em>Super Lawyers</em> survey. He
is a past president of the Inner Circle of
Advocates, described by <em>The Washington Post</em>
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 <em>Lawdragon</em>,
is listed in <em>The National Law Journal</em>’s
“Hall of Fame”
and recently received a lifetime achievement
award from <em>The Legal Intelligencer</em>.</p>
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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.</p>
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block; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px;">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.</p>
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block; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
12px;">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.</p>
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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.</p>
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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.</p>
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block; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px;">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.</p>
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is a
great day for Drexel University, and I am
extremely excited for the future of the Thomas
R. Kline School of Law.</p>
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