To honor their friend Tommy Malone, who is battling stomach cancer, several of his Savannah brethren have started an endowed scholarship in the renowned plaintiffs’ lawyer’s name at Mercer University Law School.

Malone, who earned his J.D. from Mercer Law in 1966 and went on to found Malone Law in Atlanta, has tried catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death cases in Georgia and beyond for more than 40 years.