<img width="450" height="301" alt="FlitterLorenzgift" src="/site/files/oldnewsfiles/FlitterLorenzgift.jpg" class="FloatRight">Widener Law has benefitted greatly from the work of two civic-minded alumni who negotiated a class-action settlement that led to a significant donation to the school.<br><br>Graduates <a href="/Academics/Faculty/ProfilesDeAdj/FlitterCaryL.aspx">Cary L. Flitter</a> ’81 and Theodore E. Lorenz ’92 presented Law Dean <a href="/Academics/Faculty/ProfilesDe/AmmonsLinda.aspx">Linda L. Ammons</a> with a check for $203,779.12 recently on the Delaware campus. The men also co-teach a consumer-law course as adjunct professors.<br><br>“This is so wonderful,” Ammons said. “Thank you for remembering your law school.”<br><br>Flitter and Lorenz’s firm, Lundy Flitter Beldecos &amp; Berger, P.C., was lead counsel on the 2006 lawsuit filed in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas. They represented a class of 4,400 Pennsylvanians in the case, which involved automobile financing practices. <br><br>The men negotiated a $50 million settlement agreement, which received final approval in July 2010 and recently concluded. While the majority of the agreement involved $44 million worth of debt forgiveness and the repair of people’s credit reports, roughly $6 million was also paid out in $842 checks to each of the class members. The agreement carried a section that called for any of that money that was not distributed – such as checks that went uncashed – to be shared equally by Widener Law, Temple University Beasley School of Law and University of Pennsylvania Law School.<br><br>Flitter also teaches at Temple; defense counsel on the case attended Penn.<br><br>“We wanted to have an impact,” Flitter recalled, “one that benefits the area of consumer law and the disadvantaged.” The money will likely be used to benefit Widener’s clinical or public-service programs. <br><br>Associate Professor <a href="/Academics/Faculty/ProfilesDe/NicholsNathanielC.aspx">Nathaniel C. Nichols</a>, who directs the school’s clinical programs, is investigating Widener’s options for the gift.<br><br>Flitter, who has been teaching on the Delaware campus since 1999 said it was the fourth such gift related to a settlement that his firm has made to the school. It is by far the largest. <br><br>Lorenz, who began co-teaching at Widener with Flitter last fall, credited Flitter’s mastery of sophisticated class-action work, and his ability to see a potential case shrouded in intellectually challenging circumstances that other lawyers would refuse. That talent led to a case like this, and, ultimately, helped a large class of people and the law school too.<br><br>“It feels good to give back,” Lorenz said.<br><br>The gift is a welcome addition to “Taking the Lead: The Campaign for Widener.” The school kicked off the public phase of the campaign in January and has a $12 million fund-raising goal for the School of Law. The campaign will support endowment, special projects, capital projects and the annual fund.