Indiana University has announced gifts totaling $4.5 million to establish an endowed clinical professorship and provide scholarship funds for Indiana high school graduates attending the university's Maurer School of Law.

The gifts include $3.2 million from alumnus Glenn Scolnik (JD '78) and his wife, Donna, to establish the Glenn and Donna Scolnik Clinical Chair, which will be held by the director of the school's Conservation Law Center. Currently led by W. William Weeks, the center provides free legal counsel  to conservation organizations, works to improve conservation law and policy, and offers law students clinical experience in the practice of conservation law. The Scolniks' gift also will be used to provide scholarship funds for Indiana high school graduates attending the law school. Glenn Scolnik is chairman of Hammond, Kennedy, Whitney & Company, a private capital firm headquartered in Indianapolis. He has served on the Conservation Law Center's board of directors since 2006 and recently completed a term as president of the law school's board of visitors.

In addition, the university announced a $1.2 million gift from Kathleen Harrold to establish the Bernard Harrold Endowed Scholarship, which will provide full tuition to a third-year law student annually. The scholarship will be awarded to an Indiana resident with demonstrated financial need who is in the top 25 percent of his or her class. The scholarship honors Harrold's late husband, Bernard E. "Bernie" Harrold (LLB '51), a founding partner of the Chicago firm Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon (now Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP).

"We are honored and delighted by these generous gifts," said Maurer School of Law dean Austen L. Parrish. "The center not only provides our students a tremendous up-close view of what it's like to practice law, but also shows how public service is an important part of a professional career. The Scolnik Chair will be instrumental in allowing the Conservation Law Center to continue this important work."