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University of Mississippi eGrove University of Mississippi News 3-31-2018 UM Issues a Firm Challenge Staff Report Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/umnews Recommended Citation Staff Report, "UM Issues a Firm Challenge" (2018). University of Mississippi News. 5783. https://egrove.olemiss.edu/umnews/5783 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by eGrove. It has been accepted for inclusion in University of Mississippi News by an authorized administrator of eGrove. For more information, please contact egrove@olemiss.edu. Search this website … SearchAuthor and UM law school alumnus John Grishamtakes questions from Ole Miss law students in theKhayat Law Center. Photo by Kevin Bain/Ole MissCommunicationsUM Issues a Firm ChallengeLaw school challenges firms to support universityMARCH 31, 2018 BY STAFF REPORTOXFORD, Miss. – The University ofMississippi School of Law is challenging 20Mississippi firms to show their support foreducation by achieving 100 percent givingparticipation from their attorneys who are OleMiss alumni.Recently, Adams and Reese LLP of Jacksonbecame the first firm to reach 100 percent givingto the 2018 UM Law Firm Challenge.William C. Brabec, a 1983 UM law graduate andpartner with Adams and Reese, worked toencourage all Ole Miss alumni within his firm toparticipate. He credits law school Dean Susan Duncan for inspiring him to become a donor.“Dean Duncan informed us of the importance of alumni giving in the law school evaluation process,”Brabec said. “She said that only about 4 percent of the school’s 7,000 alumni give back regularly to theschool.”The school hopes to triple that percentage by the end of this year’s challenge on June 30. Private givingsupports the school with vital scholarship and operational funds.Gee Ogletree, also a partner with Adams and Reese, helped encourage participation, a challenge met inonly five weeks.“We quickly accepted Dean Duncan’s challenge to us,” Ogletree said. “We believe that fundraising willplay an increasingly important role in the future of all law schools, and we support Dean Duncan as shecontinues the law school’s tradition of excellence and takes it to new heights.”The UM Law Firm Challenge was created as a way to get alumni involved in giving back, Duncan said.“We are so proud of Adams and Reese for being the first firm to achieve 100 percent giving amongalumni,” she said. “Lawyers there truly took the challenge to heart and did a great job quickly gettingtheir alumni to support the initiative.“We hope their success will encourage other firms to reach 100 percent.”Adams and Reese based its participation on the firm’s core values, which include growth, respect,excellence, accountability and teamwork. These values drove Brabec through the process.“Our firm always encourages excellence and philanthropy,” he said. “Also, being a regional firm withalumni from all over the Southeast, there is a competitive spirit among the alumni of the various SECschools.”Adams and Reese has set the bar for the other 19 Mississippi law firms. Firms that reach 100 percentparticipation receive a personalized trophy, recognition on the School of Law website and in the alumninewsletter.To participate in the 2018 UM Law Firm Challenge, alumni can give to any UM law school fund byclicking here or by contacting Suzette Matthews at 662-915-1122 or suzette@olemiss.edu. 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