{"id":2203,"date":"2008-11-26T12:16:25","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T17:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/?p=2203"},"modified":"2008-11-26T12:16:25","modified_gmt":"2008-11-26T17:16:25","slug":"information-about-legal-writing-competitionsand-a-shameless-plug-for-a-nice-fall-photo-i-took-in-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/2008\/11\/information-about-legal-writing-competitionsand-a-shameless-plug-for-a-nice-fall-photo-i-took-in-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"Information About Legal Writing Competitions&#8230;and a Shameless Plug for a Nice Fall Photo I Took in DC."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dc-fall-colors-jessica-slavin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2204\" title=\"dc-fall-colors-jessica-slavin\" src=\"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dc-fall-colors-jessica-slavin-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>I learned at yesterday&#8217;s faculty meeting that our Director of Student Affairs, Andrew Faltin, is maintaining a list of legal writing competitions on the law school web site. \u00a0You can find it <a href=\"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/cgi-bin\/site.pl?2130&amp;pageID=3749\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. \u00a0If you are a student, why not go check it out? A number of Marquette students <a href=\"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/cgi-bin\/site.pl?2130&amp;pageID=159\" target=\"_blank\">have won prizes<\/a> in these competitions.<\/p>\n<p>You may also want to become a reader of the <a href=\"http:\/\/legalwritingcompetitions.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Legal Writing Competitions blog<\/a>\u00a0maintained by <a href=\"http:\/\/law.uark.edu\/333.php\" target=\"_blank\">Kathryn Sampson<\/a> at the University of Arkansas School of Law. \u00a0It is thorough, and frequently updated. \u00a0Another nice feature of that blog is that Kathryn includes nice photos with most of her posts. \u00a0For instance, in <a href=\"http:\/\/legalwritingcompetitions.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/tax-writing-contest-1500-travel-do-dc.html\" target=\"_blank\">her recent post about a tax-related competition<\/a>, for which the prize includes a trip to DC, Kathryn includes a photo I took when I was in DC for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wcl.american.edu\/legalrhetoric\/upcoming_conferences.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">conference<\/a>. \u00a0(The conference was fantastic, and I still want to post about it, but I have not found the time yet.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I learned at yesterday&#8217;s faculty meeting that our Director of Student Affairs, Andrew Faltin, is maintaining a list of legal writing competitions on the law school web site. \u00a0You can find it here. \u00a0If you are a student, why not go check it out? A number of Marquette students have won prizes in these competitions. 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