Criminal Law Essay, open to undergraduates - deadline March 31, 2012

Criminal Legal Writing Competition
Introduction:
Hebets & McCallin, a premier criminal defense firm located in Denver, Colorado is hosting this competition. Our firm is hosting this competition to encourage undergraduate students to think about careers in criminal law. Entrants are asked to submit an essay on a topic related to criminal law. Winners will receive a cash prize, and recognition that can help their future resume. Below is a list of exact terms and conditions of the contest
Official Contest Rules
1) No purchase necessary. Contestants may enter the Contest by submitting an original essay on the criminal law topic of Contestant’s choice. As part of Contestant’s entry the Contestant must provide his or her first and last name, date of birth, mailing address, and email address.

2) Contestants must be 18 years of age or older to enter. There is no limit on the number of entries each Contestant may submit. Each entry must have a title and must follow the following rules: The essay must be submitted as an attachment to an email and saved in Microsoft Word format. The essay must be emailed to denvercrimelaw@gmail.com with the essay attached. Each essay must include entrant’s full name in the upper right-hand corner of each page.

All essays must be received no later than March 31st, 2012, to be eligible for the contest.

3) Essays must be original and must not infringe or violate any law or the legal or equitable right of any person or entity, nor contain material that infringes or violates any personal property rights of others or that constitutes defamation, invasion of privacy, an infringement of the intellectual property rights of any third person, or is otherwise unlawful. By submitting an essay, each Contestant acknowledges his or her understanding of and compliance with these rules.

Hebets & McCallin reserves the right to disqualify any entry deemed inappropriate for publication, at their discretion. Essays will be judged by a judging panel. The decisions of the judges will be final.

4) One Contestant will win $150 for the first-prize winning essay, and another Contestant will win $50 for the second-prize winning essay. Additionally there will be 5 Contestants that will receive honorable mentions, but not cash prizes. Any entry, whether winning or not, may be published by Hebets & McCallin.

5) The likelihood of winning will depend upon the quality of all other entries as judged by the judging panel. Prizes are nontransferable. Competition is void where prohibited or restricted by law. Winners will be solely responsible for any federal, state or local taxes.

6) All essays and all rights to their publication become the property of Hebets & McCallin, which may use, edit and excerpt these entries for promotional or any other purpose, including placing them online (e.g., on www.hebetsmccallin.com) without attribution or compensation, additional or otherwise. Hebets & McCallin reserve the right to use prize winners’ names in any advertising or promotional materials relating to this competition without further notification, permission, or compensation to the winners.

7) Winners will be selected during the month of April, 2012, and will be notified by email. Winners will also be posted online at www.facebook.com/HebetsMcCallin. For the names of winners, send a separate, stamped self-addressed envelope by the end of June, 2012, to: Hebets & McCallin, 1777 S. Harrison St., Ste. 310, Denver, CO 80210. Requests received after June 30th, 2012, will not be answered.

$2,500; April 27, 2012 Deadline; Legal Ethics

$2,500; April 27, 2012 Deadline; Legal Ethics

Notre Dame Law School

Smith-Doheny Legal Ethics Writing Competition

Open to all law students at U.S. and Canadian law schools.

National Law Review - two contests, two deadlines (February 21) (March 19)

NLR 2012 Law Student Writing Competition
Rules and Submission Guidelines

The National Law Review (NLR) consolidates practice-oriented legal analysis from a variety of sources for easy access by lawyers, paralegals, law students, business executives, insurance professionals, accountants, compliance officers, human resource managers, and other professionals who wish to better understand specific legal issues relevant to their work.

The NLR Law Student Writing Competition offers law students the opportunity to submit articles for publication consideration on the NLR Web site. No entry fee is required. Applicants can submit an unlimited number of entries each month.

• Winning submissions will be published according to specified dates.
• Entries will be judged and the top two to four articles chosen will be featured on the NLR homepage for a month. Up to 5 runner-up entries will also be posted in the NLR searchable database each month.
• Each winning article will be displayed accompanied by the student’s photo, biography, contact information, law school logo, and any copyright disclosure.
• All winning articles will remain in the NLR database for two years (subject to earlier removal upon request of the law school).

In addition, the NLR sends links to targeted articles to specific professional groups via e-mail. The NLR also posts links to selected articles on the “Legal Issues” or “Research” sections of various professional organizations’ Web sites. (NLR, at its sole discretion, maydistribute any winning entry in such a manner, but does not make any such guarantees nor does NLR represent that this is part of the prize package.)

Content Guidelines and Deadlines

Content Guidelines must be followed by all entrants to qualify. It is recommended that articles address the following monthly topic areas:

• March Topic Feature: Environmental and Energy, Insurance and Intellectual Property Law
• March Submission Deadline: Tuesday, February 21, 2012
• April Topic Feature: Tax, Bankruptcy and Restructuring and Healthcare Law
• April Submission Deadline: Monday, March 19, 2012

Articles covering current issues related to other areas of the law may also be submitted. Entries must be submitted via email to lawschools@natlawreview.com by 5:00 pm Central Standard Time on the dates indicated above.

Articles will be judged by NLR staff members on the basis of readability, clarity, organization, and timeliness. Tone should be authoritative, but not overly formal. Ideally, articles should be straightforward and practical, containinguseful information of interest to legal and business professionals. Judges reserve the right not to award any prizes if it is determined that no entries merit selection for publication by NLR. All judges’ decisions are final. All submissions are subject to the NLR’s Terms of Use.

More details here: http://www.natlawreview.com/NLR-law-student-writing-competition

Dec. 31 deadline, Construction Law, $2,000 and travel to Las Vegas

1. The competition is open to law students in good-standing who were enrolled in an ABA accredited law school during calendar year 2011.

2. Papers should address a topical issue of interest to the construction industry.

3. All authors must certify that all work submitted is the author's work product without substantial editing by others.

4. Papers prepared for law school credit are eligible for entry in the competition.

Articles prepared for law review, or publication elsewhere, are eligible for the competition. Joint papers are not acceptable.

5. If the Forum wishes to publish the winning article or articles in its various publications and the article has already been published or is planned for publication, the Forum will publish it as well if the other publication provides its consent.

6. The format of the articles must conform to either of the Forum's two publications, The Construction Lawyer (law journal format) or Under Construction (newsletter format with articles of 1000-2000 words). Format guidelines for The Construction Lawyer are posted on the Forum's website.

7. Articles must be in Microsoft Word format.

8. Article must conform to the Harvard Bluebook citation style.

9. The following information must be presented on the title page: title; author's name; address, telephone number, email address; and law school.

10. Articles must be submitted by e-mail to the following:

- Amanda Raible, American Bar Association, amanda.raible@americanbar.org

- Marilyn Klinger, Sedgwick Detert Moran & Arnold LLP, marilyn.klinger@sedgwicklaw.com

11. All entries must be emailed by December 31, 2011. Winners will be selected and notified in March 2012.

12. The author of the first place submittal will receive a cash prize of $2,000; travel expenses and registration to attend the 2012 annual meeting of the ABA Forum on the Construction Industry in Las Vegas Nevada, where a first prize plaque will be presented; a one-year membership in the Forum and recognition in the Forum newsletter, Under Construction, and on the Forum's website. One or more authors may be determined a finalist and recognized with a plaque.

13. An impartial panel will judge the entries. Criteria for selection include creativity, clarity and precision of writing, strength of argument, novelty of subject, and quality of research.

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Jan. 6, 2012 Deadline -- Murphy Competition - Global Law & Business -- First Place: $300 and publication

Fourth Annual Daniel T. Murphy Student Writing Competition 2011-12

“Open for Business?: A Global Survey of Economic Recovery Efforts”

The Daniel T. Murphy Student Writing Competition is open to all law students attending any ABA-accredited law school, and it is intended to foster knowledge and scholarly work by students in the areas of global law and business.

This year’s topic addresses the current state of economic recovery around the globe. It focuses on how various factors – cultural, political, and/or legal – have impacted economic recovery efforts domestically and internationally. Egypt’s economic health, for example, has been affected by the “Arab Spring,” and more specifically, revolution. In contrast, Japan must deal with an aging population and, more immediately, a devastating tsunami. How do these events influence legal solutions to economy recovery?

Indeed, in the wake of the financial crisis, sweeping changes to economic policy have been proposed, and some have begun. This topic encourages students to investigate these efforts, their context, and their impact. Entries focused more generally on areas of global law and business will be considered, but preference will be given to those that address the topic substantively.

This year’s prizes are as follows:

First Place: $300 cash award and publication in the Richmond Journal of Global Law and Business’s Annual Survey

Second Place: $150 cash award

Third Place: $75 cash award

For more info:

Contact Tim Wiseman

tim.wiseman@richmond.edu

Information on the internet will be posted to coincide with the launch of the Journal’s new website later in the fall semester.

Entries most be submitted or postmarked by Friday, January 6, 2012.