Legal Writing

Student Writing Competition On Employment Law Sponsored By ABA And Mercer Law School
The ABA and Mercer Law School are again sponsoring the annual student writing competition. Prizes will range from $300 to $1,000 and the deadline is June 1st. The competition seeks the following types of student writings: Topics The submission may...

Taking Stand Against Dont Ask, Dont Tell, VT Law School Bars Military
The Vermont Law School, South Royalton, Vermont. (Credit: Associated Press/Toby Talbot) How much does it cost a law school to bar military recruiters from campus? If you’re the dean of the Vermont Law School, whose endowment is about $14 million, you may be denied federal research money to the tune of $300,000 to $500,000...

Call for Papers: ILSA at Heberw University, Jerusalem
Annual ILSA Meeting Global, Regional, and Local: Law, Politics, and Society in Comparative Perspectives The Hebrew University of Jerusalem December 24-26, 2008 CALL FOR PAPERS The Program Committee of the Annual International Conference of the Israeli Law and Society (ILSA)...

NAPW Law Student Writing Competition
Via National Advocates for Pregnant Women: NAPW Law Student Writing Competition 2008-2009 Academic School Year. $1,000 first prize Issues of concern to pregnant and birthing women have often been missing from discussion in law school courses and among reproductive rights...

National Association of Women Lawyers Writing Competition
NAWL has establisted the annual Selma Moidel Smith Law Student Writing Competition to encourage and reward original law student writing on issues concerning women and the law. Here are the rules...

Law schools suffer when they stand up to discrimination
From today's NYT -- Another fight over the military?s ?don?t ask, don?t tell? policy is being watched closely on the campus of the Vermont Law School, a small 600-student institution...

Employee Theft
Mother and daughter ordered to pay $1 million settlement for writing false paychecks.

School Racism
School District pays $250,000 in racial harassment settlement.

Student Harassment
Wichita School District pays $45,000 settlement for high school students' harassment lawsuit.

School House Abuse
Selwyn House School agrees to $5 million teacher molestation settlement.

Collins GA
Elementary School Children May Have Been Exposed to Asbestos

Fayette County School Board
faces sex abuse class action lawsuit