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it financially. “When we started the challenge, the school’s alumni participation rate in annual giving was at 16%—tied for 19th place among the nation’s top 20 law schools,” he says. “Twelve years later, in our 2014 challenge, 104 law firms with more than 1,400 alumni achieved an aggregate 78% participation rate, and the school achieved a 30% rate, which easily puts us in the top five law schools nationally.” Barrall’s philosophy on giving and involvement is rooted in watching his mother and father prioritize their and their children’s educations and helping others. “They valued their and our educations tremendously and worked hard and made sacrifices to help us achieve our goals,” he says. “Carole and I have been blessed personally and professionally as a direct result of our UC public school educations and our association with UCLA Law for more than 40 years. Supporting the school and the UCs is a natural outgrowth of the values my parents lived and taught us.” Measuring the value of public education and what it offers individuals, communities and entire societies can require
“What distinguishes a great law school from a very good law school is the caliber of its faculty—how productive its members are, how much they publish and how frequently their work is cited by others.” — LAURA GÓMEZ
Vice Dean for Faculty Development
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