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Family means everything to Doris “Dori” G. Brauman Moore, ’99, who graduated from IU McKinney Law a year after her daughter, Amy Brauman, ’98, and inspired her daughter, Abbe Harvey, ’14, to go to law school as well.
 
Since graduating from law school, mother and both daughters have practiced together at Brauman Moore & Harvey Law Offices, where the focus for Dori and Abbe is elder law and estate planning and the focus for Amy is family law and criminal law.

Amy was already an IU McKinney Law student when Dori started her law degree, and Amy asked her to make one promise: that she would never embarrass her daughter by wearing stirrup pants—a 1980s fashion staple—to the law school. Dori kept her promise, and mother and daughter ended up having several classes together.
 
Dori worked for many years as a registered nurse before earning a master’s degree in business management and earning her law degree. Both careers take the same caring approach. She gets to know clients and their needs, including their health care issues. Members of the firm mourned the loss of nearly 100 clients to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.  
 
“In some ways, it does feel a lot like nursing,” she says. “You have to have a big heart for both careers.”  
 
It is also very much a family business, according to Dori.  
 
Daughter Amy had four children after she graduated from law school, while Abbe, who was raising three young children, had a fourth child while she was in law school. The law office converted one of the conference rooms to a nursery for Abbe’s newborn, Dori recalls, and even today, sports and school activities for each of Dori’s 13 grandchildren are carefully tracked as priorities in the office calendar.  
 
In 2015, Dori established the Brauman Moore & Harvey Law Office Scholarship. It is awarded to IU McKinney Law students with preference given students who are returning to school to obtain their legal education and/or female students with children. The scholarship is renewable to recipients if they maintain at least a 3.0 GPA.
 
“When Abbe graduated, the three of us decided that it was important us to give back so we started an endowed scholarship fund to help future students who may be pursuing a second career,” Dori says.
 
The challenges for such students are well known to all three women. When Dori started law school, she had already been a nurse and was pursuing a second career to combine her nursing and her law degrees for a career focusing on the issues of the elderly.

Abbe was a teacher and adjunct education professor for 10 years before embarking on her IU McKinney Law degree. She had worked at the family firm in the summers during college and while teaching, and being an attorney appealed to her.  
 
“I knew it would help my family have a better life,” she says.

Setting up the scholarship allowed Dori as well as her daughters to give back to the law school in a way that felt very personal, and it was easy through a five-year payment plan, she says. The gift was also part of IU’s FOR ALL: Bicentennial Campaign and unlocked IUPUI campus matching funds that will be provided each year. As a member of the IU McKinney Law Alumni Association Board of Directors, she believes it is an obligation for everyone to consider ways they can give back for the opportunities they were given.
 
“Philanthropy is a learned behavior, and the rewards far outweigh the sacrifices of the giving,” she says.  

 Learn how you can establish an endowed scholarship at IU McKinney Law by clicking here. Link - How to Create a Scholarship: Scholarships: Giving: IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law: IUPUI