Survey of Lawyers at Major Law Firms, Plans to Donate to Law Schools

Survey of Lawyers at Major Law Firms, Plans to Donate to Law Schools

This study looks closely at the history and intentions of lawyers at top 100 law firms in the USA to donate to their law school alma maters and other law schools. The study includes data on the percentage of lawyers who have ever donated to their law school alma mater, as well as a separate data set about contributions to law schools other than the one attended. In addition, the report presents data on the amounts contributed over the past two years and expected over the next two years.



In addition, the study pinpoints those area of law school philanthropy that most interests attorneys at major law school, with separate data sets measuring interest in supporting pro bono/legal clinics, student scholarships, endowed chairs and other faculty support, or specific legal centers or institutes.



The report also measures how many attorneys have been recently approached by law schools for financial support, giving specific data for approaches by email, social media, text, phone or mail.We asked: to the best of your knowledge has the law school you attended contacted you by any of the following means in the past year to request a donation?

First, we asked about contact by phone.

24.02% of respondents have been contacted by phone by their old law school in the past year to be asked for a donation. Interestingly, lawyers over the age of 60 were the most likely to have been contacted by phone; 32.61% of them had been in the past year, more than for any other age group.

27.15% of female lawyers have been contacted versus only 17.95% of male lawyers. The more prestigious the law school attended the more likely that the lawyer had been contacted. For example 28.57% of attorneys attending a top 20 U.S. law school had been contacted versus only 18.75% of those who intended a law school ranked lower than 75.