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LAW BUILDING CAMPAIGN: MORE THAN BRICKS

Our goal is to create a world-class legal learning environment within an innovative new Law Center building.

UH

stablished in 1947, in recent years the University of A new, state-of-the-art facility will accelerate UHLC’s
Houston Law Center (UHLC) has risen into the ascendance to our top-40 goal. An ultramodern learning
Eupper tier of U.S. legal education. Three environment will expand faculty resources, galvanize
of its specialty programs — Intellectual Property and recruitment and attract students with stronger academic
Information Law, Health Law and Policy, and the credentials. A new UHLC facility will provide modern
school’s part-time program — are in the top 10 research space, new clinical facilities, a new library,
nationally. The Law Center's increased recognition is practice courtrooms and career services space. It will
limited, however, by its nearly 50-year-old facilities, also provide a forum for exclusive events on campus
built in bygone days of legal education and inviting peers from other academic institutions,
and unrepresentative of the educational excellence prominent judges, lawyers and practitioners.
within. President Renu Khator, Dean Leonard M.
Baynes and the Law Center are committed to
boosting the power of UH legal education by giving
the UHLC’s 800 students the resorucrces that will
ensure their success. Since it opened, the Law Center has produced outstanding
lawyers who are leaders in the law community. In the
dynamic city of Houston, UHLC graduates account for
“A building is more than bricks and mortar. one-in-four attorneys. Forbes magazine has dubbed
Houston “America’s next great global city.” This new
It is the corporeal manifestation of who we facility would position UHLC as one of the premier legal
are and who we aspire to be.” institutions in the country, preparing practice-ready
attorneys for the global workforce in one of America’s
— Leonard M. Baynes leading cities.
Dean, University of Houston Law Center

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