Congratulations to Professor Alison Julien, who was recently elected to serve on the board of directors of the Legal Writing Institute.
The Legal Writing Institute (LWI) is the largest organization of legal writing professors and the second largest U.S. organization of law school professors. LWI has over 2,100 members from 38 countries.
After three intense preliminary rounds of competition, four teams have advanced to the semifinal rounds of the 2010 Jenkins Honors Moot Court Competition. Please congratulate the following teams:
Margaret Delain and Tiffany Winter
Gabe Johnson-Karp and Alexandra Grimley
Ashley Roth and Emily Lonergan
Nathaniel Wojan and Nicole Kowalski
The semifinal rounds will take place on Wednesday, March 31 at 6:00 p.m., followed by a reception in Eisenberg Hall. All members of the Law School community are invited to attend both the semifinal and final rounds of competition.
The final round will take place on Tuesday, April 6 at 6:00 p.m. at the Federal Courthouse, with a reception immediately following at the Milwaukee Club.
Congratulations to all the participants of this year’s Jenkins Competition:
Right now, our first-year students are finalizing their trial-level briefs in the LAWR 2 course. We’ve been discussing when to capitalize certain words in a brief. Here are the general rules according to the 18th edition of the Bluebook. (Rule 8 and B10.6):