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What Is The Law School Fund?
The Law School Fund is BC Law’s annual fund.  Contributions to the Fund are the foundation of voluntary support for the Law School, and donations made to the Fund are available to be used immediately to meet the Law School’s most important needs. 

In Fiscal Year 2011, $1.5 million in donations were made to the Law School Fund, which is being put to immediate use in the 2011-2012 academic year. 

Important programs like student scholarships, loan repayment assistance for alumni pursuing careers in public interest law, faculty research grants and much more depend upon the Fund each year for support.



Class Gifts and the Law School Fund
In recent years it has become a tradition that as the third year law students prepare to graduate and join the ranks of BC Law alumni, they mark their transition by giving back to the Law School and the Law School Fund with a graduating class gift. 

In the last five years the class gift tradition has taken off, becoming a major source of pride for each graduating class.  Participation rates have more than tripled since 2005, with the class of 2009 achieving a remarkable 83% participation in gifts and pledges to the Law School Fund.



The Class Gift program supports the Loan Repayment Assistance Program (LRAP), which currently relies almost entirely on the Law School Fund for support.  LRAP provides grants to alumni pursing careers in public interest to help relieve some of the alum’s educational loan burden. 

BC Law has never turned away a qualified applicant for LRAP.  In 2009, BC Law distributed more than $260,000 in grants of various amounts to 74 alumni.  The number of LRAP recipients has more than tripled since 1999.



Why Participate In Giving to the Law School Fund?
Your support of the Law School Fund is critical.  Every area of BC Law benefits from your gift to the Fund and through your gift you help guarantee that the Law School’s highest priorities are funded each year. 

Giving back to the Law School Fund is one of the most direct ways in which alumni can help ensure that BC Law continues the tradition of excellence in legal education which has become its trademark.

As a student, you likely benefitted from some or all of the programs that are supported by the Fund today.  Now, your support is needed to help continue our tradition of academic excellence and abiding commitment to service.  Your support will ensure that current and future students receive the same opportunities that you had – just as those who came before have done for you.  

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For more information about the Law School Fund please don’t hesitate to contact us:

By phone: (617) 552-4703

By email: lawafund (at) bc.edu 

By mail: Boston College Law School Fund, Barat House, 885 Centre Street, Newton Center, MA 02459-1163