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                                 MEDIA ADVISORY



            CHIEF JUSTICE REHNQUIST TO SPEAK AT LAW GROUNDS DEDICATION

      The Nov. 8 dedication of the David A. Harrison III Law Grounds at the 
University of Virginia School of Law will feature a keynote address from 
Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist.

      Rehnquist, whose daughter, Janet Rehnquist, graduated from the Law 
School in 1985, will join several hundred alumni, students and faculty in 
celebrating the completion of the school's $30 million renovation and 
construction project. University President John T. Casteen III and law Dean 
Robert E. Scott will participate in the 10 a.m. dedication ceremonies.

      Funded entirely by private donations, the Law Grounds project nearly 
doubles the size of the Law School and recaptures a sense of community lost 
when the school moved from the University's Central Grounds to the North 
Grounds in 1974.

      The quadrangular, 311,382-square-foot complex comprises four distinct 
structures: on the west side, the newly renovated Withers Hall, the original 
Law School building; on the east side, Slaughter Hall, the former Darden 
Graduate School of Business building; on the south side, Buckner Clay Hall, 
the new formal entry building that also houses Caplin Pavilion, a formal 
assembly place; and on the north side, the recently completed Hunton & 
Williams Hall, the central gathering place for students.

      The Law Grounds includes two new moot courtrooms and an appellate 
courtroom; new and renovated seminar, small and large classrooms with outlets 
for laptop computers at every seat; a two-story library reading room;  
an 80-station computer lab; a University bookstore; and a Greenberry's cafe.

      Outdoors, the Law Grounds feature two courtyards, formal gardens and 
fountain, and a long, grassy expanse reminiscent of Jefferson's Lawn in the 
Academical Village. 

      The Law Grounds complex is named in honor of David A. Harrison III, one 
of the University's most generous alumni. Harrison is a 1941 graduate of the 
Law School and has contributed $8 million to the Law School's Capital Campaign.

      The University of Virginia School of Law consistently ranks among the 
top 10 law schools in the nation. The Law School houses approximately 1,130 
students, 64 full-time professors, and more than 50 adjunct faculty and 
administrators representing private practice, federal and state government, 
and the judiciary. It joins Harvard as one of only two law schools in the 
country whose graduates are employed at every one of the nation's top 100 law 
firms. The Law School has raised $86 million toward its $100 million capital 
campaign goal, scheduled for completion in the year 2000.

      A media tour of the Law Grounds will begin at 9:15 a.m. Interested 
reporters should contact Marion Kingdon, (804) 924-4678, for information. 
Project architects from the Baltimore firm of Ayers/Saint/Gross will be 
available for interviews following the one-hour ceremony.

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                                                         October 28, 1997

      For additional information, contact Marion Kingdon at the School of Law 
at (804) 924-4678. Television reporters should call our TV News Office at 
(804) 924-7550. A mult box will be available at the dedication ceremony.

      The front view of the Law School will be obscured by a tent the day of 
the dedication. B-roll and color photos of the building are available for 
reporters upon request.