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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Aug 8, 2024

A $1 million gift made on behalf of Chattanooga-based law firm Summers, Rufolo & Rodgers will support students and faculty at the University of Tennessee College of Law. The school reports that the gift will fund scholarships for students interested in pursuing legal careers in advocacy as well as support for the College of Law Center for Advocacy and Dispute Resolution, Legal Clinic and Douglas A. Blaze Leadership Scholarship. The gift continues Summers, Rufolo & Rodgers longstanding support of the law school and students who intend to focus on advocacy, the school said in a release. Firm founder Jerry H. Summers, a 1966 graduate of the law school, also co-founded the school’s Center for Advocacy and Dispute Resolution.