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, one of the nation鈥檚 top trial lawyers and a 1988 graduate of the McGeorge School of Law, and his law partner and wife, renowned legal negotiator Tracy A. Eglet, are giving 糖心vlog鈥檚 law school one of the largest gifts in the history of U.S. legal education, the school announced today.

The gift, which will be paid out over time, includes $5 million in support of the school鈥檚 advocacy center and another $20 million for scholarships dedicated to first-generation students and students of color. The gift is among the top 15 given to a U.S. law school, the third largest to a California law school and the second largest in the 170-year history of California鈥檚 first university.

鈥淢y wife and I both strongly believe that it is important to give back when you can,鈥� Eglet said. 鈥淲e are excited that we have the ability to help students who would not otherwise be able to afford law school. We both relied upon assistance throughout law school.鈥�

McGeorge's award-winning advocacy program will be renamed the . The gift will create three new endowed faculty chairs for the center and a fund that will cover competition fees and travel costs for every qualified team interested in competing as a member of one of McGeorge鈥檚 , , negotiations or other competition teams.

鈥淚 am so proud of the nationally ranked mock trial program at McGeorge,鈥� Eglet said. 鈥淚 have seen the students in action as they prepared for upcoming competitions, and I was really impressed. Trial law is my passion, and I want to do something that will enhance McGeorge's mock trial program.鈥�

The law school鈥檚 highly ranked competitions programs provide opportunities for students to improve their trial and appellate advocacy skills and refine their talents in client counseling, negotiations, and arbitration. In the past three years alone, a McGeorge student won the national Top Gun competition for the 16 top student trial lawyers; McGeorge tied for seventh in the country in the American Bar Association Competitions Championship; McGeorge鈥檚 negotiations team won the national and international ABA competitions; and McGeorge moot court students won 13 best advocate awards and six best brief awards.聽

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鈥淚 want to motivate McGeorge students to go into civil trial practice,鈥� Eglet said. 鈥淚f I can inspire even one student here to passionately pursue a career in civil trial practice, then I will have achieved my goal.鈥�

The Las Vegas-based attorney, who heads the trial team at , is one of the nation鈥檚 most successful trial attorneys. Eglet has earned his clients more than $1.5 billion in verdicts and settlements in the past 10 years alone. He has served as lead trial counsel in more than 130 civil jury trials with only four losses.聽

Eglet is a recipient of the Thurgood Marshall Fighting for Justice Award for his tenacious effort against overwhelming odds and in achieving success in the fight for justice. He has been named one of the Top 100 Trial Lawyers in the United States by the National Trial Lawyers Association for 12 consecutive years and is a member of the Round Table, the 100 Most Influential Trial Lawyers in America. He was named National Lawyer of the Year in 2010 and National Trial Lawyer of the Year in 2013. He is a recipient of the National Law Journal鈥檚 鈥淜eith Givens Visionary Award鈥� for his work in achieving an $800 million settlement in the One October, 2017, MGM mass shooting case and is the only lawyer to be named Nevada Trial Lawyer of the Year twice. 聽In 2018, Eglet was invited to become a member of 鈥淭he Inner Circle of Advocates鈥�, an invitation only group of the 100 best plaintiff trial lawyers in the United States. 聽Eglet is currently the president of the National Trial Lawyers. 聽

is also a founding partner of Eglet Adams in Las Vegas. She started her law career in 1993 in Ohio, then moved to Las Vegas in 1996 where she focused on injured persons in the areas of product defect and general negligence. Mrs. Eglet is regarded as one of the top negotiators in the Nevada legal community. 聽She has been honored as one of The Top 100 Trial Lawyers by the National Trial Lawyers Association and is a longstanding member of the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum. Mrs. Eglet has settled hundreds of millions of dollars in catastrophic injury lawsuits, managed and mediated thousands of cases, and selected multiple juries that have returned verdicts in excess of $50 million.

Pacific President Christopher Callahan called the gift 鈥渢ransformational鈥� for the McGeorge School of Law. 鈥淭his extraordinarily generous gift will change the lives of McGeorge students for generations to come,鈥� Callahan said. 鈥淩obert and Tracy are amazing role models for all of us as they show the power philanthropy has to change the trajectory of the lives of students who are dedicating themselves to careers in the law.鈥�

The president applauded , who worked closely with the Eglets to design the historic gift. He called the dean, who was named three times to National Jurist Magazine鈥檚 list of Most Influential People in Legal Education, a 鈥渢ruly visionary leader.鈥澛�

鈥淒ean Schwartz has dramatically transformed the McGeorge School in just four years at the helm,鈥� Callahan said, pointing to unprecedented successes that include the law school鈥檚 highest California bar exam pass rate in 25 years, four consecutive years of improving credentials for incoming students and the best job placement rate in the school鈥檚 history. 鈥淗e is a remarkable leader.鈥�

Schwartz, who attributed McGeorge鈥檚 recent success to the school鈥檚 faculty and staff, called the Eglets 鈥渋nspiring.鈥澛�

鈥淚 love listening to them talk about their cases. They have so much heart for righting societal wrongs, for curbing abusive practices, and for helping others,鈥� Schwartz said. 鈥淭he reason they have been successful and are able to make this extraordinary gift is because they relentlessly pursue justice.鈥�

Schwartz put the gift into context. 鈥淭he new need-based scholarships will help us address a systemic barrier to diversifying the law school and the profession, and the advocacy center fund will help cement the institution as a leader in trial advocacy, moot court, and legal education,鈥� Schwartz said.聽

The Eglet gift is the largest donation in the law school鈥檚 97-year history. McGeorge will receive an additional $5 million in matching funds from Pacific鈥檚 Powell initiative.