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The Monday Morning Message will resume in mid-January ….. Just one request before your inbox gets a much-deserved winter break! 

“The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written.” —Melody Beattie

Each of our students is writing a new chapter in their lives. But it’s not a solo journey. All of us have a role to play as co-authors.

Please be a co-author of a student’s next chapter by making a year-end gift to support our students.

We have much to be proud of: 

• We enrolled the largest first year class in 15 years, a 96% increase in first year enrollment since 2016.
• We continue to be ranked as the #1 top public law school in Northern Ohio and #1 ranked public part-time JD program in Ohio.
• All our specialty law programs are nationally ranked, and we ranked in the top 100 in 5 areas: Health Care Law, International Law, Intellectual Property, Legal Writing, and Criminal Law. These nationally ranked specialties are due to our faculty’s hard work, scholarship, teaching, and outstanding individual reputations.
• Our ABA accredited Part-Time JD Online (JDO) Program, one of the first in the nation, includes students from over 25 states.
• Our Center for Health Law & Policy again earned an A+ Rating by PreLaw Magazine, and our Center for Cybersecurity and Privacy Protection , Global Space Law Center, and Criminal Justice Center continue to earn national recognition.
• We have started a number of new clinics – the Terry Gilbert Wrongful Conviction Clinic, Pardon, Clemency & Reentry Clinic, Pretrial Justice Clinic, and David H. Braff Animal Law Center & Clinic.
• We welcomed Ohio Governor Mike DeWine to CSU Law where he signed pardons for two clients of our Pardon, Clemency & Reentry Clinic.
• We launched the Richard W. Pogue Leadership Conversation Series with Former U.S. Senator Rob Portman.
• We celebrated 5o+ years of our groundbreaking Legal Career Opportunities Program (LCOP).
• Our 7th Annual Hall of Fame Celebration was the largest in our history- over 600 friends and supporters attended.

 We are a law school that keeps raising the bar. See Raising the Bar for 125 Years

But despite our many successes, our students have challenges and needs. Increasingly, our students face unforeseen emergency expenses and financial burdens that prevent them from devoting the time, focus, and resources they need to succeed during law school and to prepare for the bar exam.

You may designate your gift to any specific fund, but because we have so many needs, I’m asking you to please make your year-end gift to the Learn Law Live Justice Annual Fund because it is our most flexible source of donor support. Your gift to this fund helps us be nimble and responsive to the immediate needs of our students as new challenges arise.

Donate Here: Learn Law. Live Justice.

For more than 125 years, we have educated and trained the future custodians of civility, defenders of democracy, and guardians of justice. At a time when political polarization has reached new heights and political discourse has reached new lows, a quality legal education is the single best investment in preparing a new generation of lawyer-leaders to advance professional integrity, civil discourse, justice, and the rule of law.

Among the many deserving year-end requests you receive, please make your year-end gift and support our students’ dreams by December 31, 2024. No gift is too small.

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