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Posted by: Azya Thornton on Feb 3, 2025

A $2 million pledge recently was made by Chattanooga law firm Summers, Rufolo & Rodgers to support students at the University of Tennessee College of Law, the school has announced. The gift will support the Summers, Rufolo & Rodgers Scholarship Endowment, which benefits students pursuing careers in advocacy; the Douglas A. Blaze Leadership Scholarship, which supports students preparing for leadership roles in the legal profession; and the John K. Morgan Trial Advocacy Endowment, which honors a prominent Chattanooga attorney who influenced Summers and was an important figure in his book "The Turtle and the Lawyer." Responding to the gift, law school Dean Lonnie T. Brown Jr. said. "Summers, Rufolo & Rodgers’ sustained history of unparalleled generosity is indispensable to our ongoing success and so very deeply appreciated.”