NATP: Why I Give

Alumni may choose to donate for a variety of reasons:

I want other attorneys to experience what I did.
When you finish the formal coursework of law school, your legal education doesn't end.
Undertaking minimal annual requirements of continuing legal education, if any are imposed by your jurisdiction, are rarely enough to grow into a polished professional.
The NATP provides a unique type of advocacy to learn from actual masters of the craft. Barristers are trained professionals in the art of advocacy, and Queen's Counsel (QCs) are the profession's most highly-recognized practitioners.
To draw from the English traditions, developed over centuries before our country was formed, is to subscribe to the world's most gifted advocates.
There is real value in borrowing from what others know; I can provide a better product to my clients because of this experience.
I want to remain involved in order to brush up from the greatest advocates there are.
Your reason here: ______________________________________________

It's important to donate because:

The program is affordable to more people when it has additional resources.
There is a substantial cost to bringing British Barristers to the United States for several days to evaluate and train us.
The training benefits all types of attorneys , but naturally there is great benefit to attorneys of lesser experience who are in the early years of their careers.
We donate to keep costs minimal and to allow attorneys of lesser experience, and perhaps means, to participate and leave with a greater skill set.

It's easy to donate: