Recently, I had the great pleasure of speaking at a Chicago Bar Association event for young attorneys on the topic of networking. After about 20 minutes I observed how ravenously everyone was taking notes and the deep level of attentiveness that I was receiving from the participants. While this is not unique to me as a speaker in the legal space, there was something different in the eyes of audience. Fear.

Once the program concluded, I stuck around to chat with the attendees to better understand their mindset.  A few of the comments were, “I have no idea how to network and am just trying to put myself out there.” And, “They never taught me any of this in law school.”  One first-year lawyer even remembered an adjunct professor saying, “If you’re not networking, you’re not working.” The same lawyer then thanked me for my presentation where I explained and demonstrated different ways to actually do it.

Over the past 10 years I have spoken at a number of young attorney events, but the fear and confusion on this day was palpable. For over 200 years, law schools have focused on teaching the law in order to produce scholarly advocates to protect the rights of his or her clients.  There was never a need to teach networking or how to run a solo practice because lawyers were employed at firms where the sole focus was gaining experience as a lawyer. There was also an abundance of opportunities to get a job.

In economics, we all learned about supply and demand. In the case of the legal space today, the supply of lawyers is overtaking the demand. Especially in the case of the new grads and younger lawyers.  With the legal landscape changing, it would only make sense that the law schools must change as well.  One attorney I interviewed was even involved in a 2014 ISBA report that demonstrated with clarity that law schools just aren’t preparing their students for the challenging legal marketplace that currently exists.

Fortunately, I did uncover that there are some adjunct professors and internal programs that mention and discuss networking with their students, but it’s just not enough. Networking is a learned skill that involves planning and processes to gain traction and ensure positive results. These skills can be used for the job search, deciding to go solo or to be used as an ongoing activity to grow a book of business once you’ve gained enough experience.  Even the simple skill of asking questions and listening to someone’s answers will be critical to a lawyer’s ongoing success and sustainability.

If a law school was to engage its students in a course on effective networking, here are three core elements that I believe should be included:

• Element #1: Learn how to write a plan.  All law school students need to learn how to develop a written plan for finding a job or going out on their own.  They say, “Failing to plan is a plan to fail.” It is imperative that students learn how to develop and write a plan to better prepare for any eventuality. If the job market were tight, it would be helpful to have developed inside connections to find a good firm or company to work for. If there were struggles to find the right job, then developing a plan to partner with other solo’s to develop some business would be valuable. Whatever the situation, ones ability to develop a plan will be the break-through moment for someone wanting a career in the legal space.
• Element #2: You’re young, learn how to use social media. In the age of anytime information and promotion, anyone can use social media to improve their ability to find a job or increase exposure in the marketplace. LinkedIn for example allows its users to connect on the site and find inside connections that normally would be hidden. For example, if we were friends and connected on LinkedIn, you could search through my connections to see the wide variety of general counsels and hiring lawyers that I know. Asking me for an inside channel into these contacts is infinitely more effective than sending out cold resumes to job postings or firms you are interested in.
• Element #3: Learn the basics or you will destroy your free time. As someone who has killed hundreds of hours by networking inefficiently, I can attest to the importance of structure and processes to follow when networking. These methodologies can be found through books, firm mentors or teachers like myself. For many attorneys in school this would be important because it’s not about whom you know anymore but rather how you leverage the relationships with whom you know. Failure to properly give and receive value in a structured way within your network can lead to countless unproductive hours at events and coffee meetings.  While it’s true that relationships take time, how much time and with whom you invest is in question.

Whether you are currently enrolled in law school, a recent grad or someone who is billing 2000 hours a year for someone else’s clients at your firm, learning to plan and execute on your networking has never been more important. I know that the law schools today are aware of the need for networking classes, but they just haven’t fully committed to the idea. My hope is that with further awareness and forward-thinking deans, graduates will be better equipped to acquire the jobs they are looking for.

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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.)

Congratulations to our 2013, 2012 and 2011 Law Student Writing Contest Winners

Spring 2013:

• Jacob Bethel Woolston from Southern Methodist University, SMU Dedman School of Law: Closing Time for Anheuser-Busch, the NLRB Adopts a Balancing Test When Unions Request Witness Statements
• Sixuan Lu from Southern Methodist University, SMU Dedman School of Law: Far From Perfection: Individual Alternative Minimum Tax Is Still Alive
• Courtney Anne Chicvak from St. John’s University School of Law: From Silver Bullets to Bazookas: Workers’ Innovative Challenge to Wal-Mart’s Employment Practices
• Olivia J. Quinto from Rutgers School of Law: The Siren Song of Securities: The Perils of Expert Networks & The Risks of Insider Trading
• Edward Silverman from Pepperdine University School of Law: The Suspicious Existence of the “Repeat Player Effect” in Mandatory Arbitration of Employment Disputes

Winter 2013:

• Rebecca Heatherly Block from Southern University Law Center: The 1/3: Childhood Obesity in the Twenty First Century

• Chase Anders Manuel from Southern University Law Center: Human Augmentation: A Bioethical Implication Analysis of Cybernetics, Nanotechnology, and Upgrades to the Human Body

Fall 2012: 

• Laura Homan from Chicago-Kent College of Law:Not All “Entries” Are Equal – The Law of “Entry” and “Admission” for Purposes of the Immigration and Nationality Act
• Laura Ploeg from Villanova University School of Law: Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting: A Law Student’s Freewheeling Inquiry
• Lloydann A. Wade from Barry University Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law: 
  Illegal Immigration and Education
• Rouzhna Nayeri from Southern Methodisit University Dedman School of Law:  Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection—Second Circuit Applies The Strict Scrutiny Test And Holds That New York Cannot Prohibit Nonimmigrants From Obtaining Pharmacist Licenses
• Adam Dominic Kielich from Texas Wesleyan University School of Law: What’s Not to “Like” About Workplace Harassment?

Spring 2012:

• More Muni’s, More Problems: Increased Regulation of the Municipal Bond Market And Its Potential Effects on Municipal Bankruptcies and the US Economy by Joseph C. Barsalona, II from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law.
• Ponzi Schemes: Keeping Your “Return” on “Investment” by Penelope Rose Hansen of Atlanta’s John Marshall School of Law.
• Legal Considerations of Cremation Jewelry  by Samantha Taber of Texas Tech University School of Law.

Winter 2012:

• Increasing Offshore Wind Projects:  A Focus on Regulatory Authority by Kiboni Yarling from the Florida Coastal Law School
• The Florida Environmental Approach:  Water Management by William Kirilloff from the Florida Coastal Law School
• Will A Moratorium on Confined Animal Feedling Operations Ever Get Through the Indiana General Assembly by Emily Abraham from the Northeastern University School of Law
• A Void for Vagueness:  Florida Confinement Law/How Animal Welfare Litigators Can Seize Upon a Semantic Loophole by Gautam Jagannath from the Northeastern University School of Law

Fall 2011:

• Trademark Counterfeiting and Individual Purchaser Liability by Lisa Lyne Cunningham from University of Baltimore School of Law
• Ford Motor Credit Company v. Chesterfield County: Reading Constitutional Fairness And Supply Side Economics Into The Virginia Tax Code by Adam Blander  from Brooklyn Law School
• Cost Shifting in e-Discovery: A Comparative Analysis Between America and Europe by Umar Bakhsh from Chicago-Kent College of Law
• Football and Antitrust Law: American Needle v. NFL and It’s Meaning for Combinations in Restraint of Trade and the Rule of Reason in the 21st Century by Michael Sabino from Brooklyn Law School

Why Students Should Submit Articles:

• Students have the opportunity to publicly display their legal knowledge and skills.
• The student’s photo, biography, and contact information will be posted with each article, allowing for professional recognition and exposure.
• Winning articles are published alongside those written by respected attorneys from Am Law 200 and other prominent firms as well as from other respected professional associations.
• Now more than ever, business development skills are expected from law firm associates earlier in their careers. NLR wants to give law students valuable experience generating consumer-friendly legal content of the sort which is included for publication in law firm client newsletters, law firm blogs, bar association journals and trade association publications.
• Student postings will remain in the NLR online database for up to two years, easily accessed by potential employers.
• For an example of  a contest winning student written article from Northwestern University, please click here or please review the winning submissions from Spring 2011.

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:

October 2013 Suggested Topic:

1. Immigration Law Reform

• Submission Deadline:  Monday, October 14, 2013

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, containing useful 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.

Students are not required to transfer copyright ownership of their winning articles to the NLR. However, all articles submitted must be clearly identified with any applicable copyright or other proprietary notices. The NLR will accept articles previously published by another publication, provided the author has the authority to grant the right to publish it on the NLR site. Do not submit any material that infringes upon the intellectual property or privacy rights of any third party, including a third party’s unlicensed copyrighted work.

Manuscript Requirements

• Format – HTML (preferred) or Microsoft^® Word
• Length – Articles should be no more than 5,500 words, including endnotes.
• Endnotes and citations – Any citations should be in endnote form and listed at the end of the article. Unreported cases should include docket number and court. Authors are responsible for the accuracy and proper format of related cites. In general, follow the Bluebook. Limit the number of endnotes to only those most essential. Authors are responsible for accuracy of all quoted material.
• Author Biography/Law School Information – Please submit the following:
  1. Full name of author (First Middle Last)
  2. Contact information for author, including e-mail address and phone number
  3. Author photo (recommended but optional) in JPEG format with a maximum file size of 1 MB and in RGB color format. Image size must be at least 150 x 200 pixels.
  4. A brief professional biography of the author, running approximately 100 words or 1,200 characters including spaces.
  5. The law school’s logo in JPEG format with a maximum file size of 1 MB and in RGB color format. Image size must be at least 300 pixels high or 300 pixels wide.
  6. The law school mailing address, main phone number, contact e-mail address, school Web site address, and a brief description of the law school, running no more than 125 words or 2,100 characters including spaces.

To enter, an applicant and any co-authors must be enrolled in an accredited law school within the fifty United States. Employees of The National Law Review are not eligible. Entries must include ALL information listed above to be considered and must be submitted to the National Law Review at lawschools@natlawreview.com. 

Any entry which does not meet the requirements and deadlines outlined herein will be disqualified from the competition. Winners will be notified via e-mail and/or telephone call at least one day prior to publication. Winners will be publicly announced on the NLR home page and via other media.  All prizes are contingent on recipient signing an Affidavit of Eligibility, Publicity Release and Liability Waiver. The National Law Review 2011 Law Student Writing Competition is sponsored by The National Law Forum, LLC, d/b/a The National Law Review, 4700 Gilbert, Suite 47 (#230), Western Springs, IL 60558, 708-357-3317. This contest is void where prohibited by law. All entries must be submitted in accordance with The National Law Review Contributor Guidelines per the terms of the contest rules. A list of winners may be obtained by writing to the address listed above. There is no fee to enter this contest.

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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.)

Congratulations to our 2013, 2012 and 2011 Law Student Writing Contest Winners

Spring 2013:

• Jacob Bethel Woolston from Southern Methodist University, SMU Dedman School of Law: Closing Time for Anheuser-Busch, the NLRB Adopts a Balancing Test When Unions Request Witness Statements
• Sixuan Lu from Southern Methodist University, SMU Dedman School of Law: Far From Perfection: Individual Alternative Minimum Tax Is Still Alive
• Courtney Anne Chicvak from St. John’s University School of Law: From Silver Bullets to Bazookas: Workers’ Innovative Challenge to Wal-Mart’s Employment Practices
• Olivia J. Quinto from Rutgers School of Law: The Siren Song of Securities: The Perils of Expert Networks & The Risks of Insider Trading
• Edward Silverman from Pepperdine University School of Law: The Suspicious Existence of the “Repeat Player Effect” in Mandatory Arbitration of Employment Disputes

Winter 2013:

• Rebecca Heatherly Block from Southern University Law Center: The 1/3: Childhood Obesity in the Twenty First Century

• Chase Anders Manuel from Southern University Law Center: Human Augmentation: A Bioethical Implication Analysis of Cybernetics, Nanotechnology, and Upgrades to the Human Body

Fall 2012: 

• Laura Homan from Chicago-Kent College of Law:Not All “Entries” Are Equal – The Law of “Entry” and “Admission” for Purposes of the Immigration and Nationality Act
• Laura Ploeg from Villanova University School of Law: Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting: A Law Student’s Freewheeling Inquiry
• Lloydann A. Wade from Barry University Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law: 
  Illegal Immigration and Education
• Rouzhna Nayeri from Southern Methodisit University Dedman School of Law:  Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection—Second Circuit Applies The Strict Scrutiny Test And Holds That New York Cannot Prohibit Nonimmigrants From Obtaining Pharmacist Licenses
• Adam Dominic Kielich from Texas Wesleyan University School of Law: What’s Not to “Like” About Workplace Harassment?

Spring 2012:

• More Muni’s, More Problems: Increased Regulation of the Municipal Bond Market And Its Potential Effects on Municipal Bankruptcies and the US Economy by Joseph C. Barsalona, II from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law.
• Ponzi Schemes: Keeping Your “Return” on “Investment” by Penelope Rose Hansen of Atlanta’s John Marshall School of Law.
• Legal Considerations of Cremation Jewelry  by Samantha Taber of Texas Tech University School of Law.

Winter 2012:

• Increasing Offshore Wind Projects:  A Focus on Regulatory Authority by Kiboni Yarling from the Florida Coastal Law School
• The Florida Environmental Approach:  Water Management by William Kirilloff from the Florida Coastal Law School
• Will A Moratorium on Confined Animal Feedling Operations Ever Get Through the Indiana General Assembly by Emily Abraham from the Northeastern University School of Law
• A Void for Vagueness:  Florida Confinement Law/How Animal Welfare Litigators Can Seize Upon a Semantic Loophole by Gautam Jagannath from the Northeastern University School of Law

Fall 2011:

• Trademark Counterfeiting and Individual Purchaser Liability by Lisa Lyne Cunningham from University of Baltimore School of Law
• Ford Motor Credit Company v. Chesterfield County: Reading Constitutional Fairness And Supply Side Economics Into The Virginia Tax Code by Adam Blander  from Brooklyn Law School
• Cost Shifting in e-Discovery: A Comparative Analysis Between America and Europe by Umar Bakhsh from Chicago-Kent College of Law
• Football and Antitrust Law: American Needle v. NFL and It’s Meaning for Combinations in Restraint of Trade and the Rule of Reason in the 21st Century by Michael Sabino from Brooklyn Law School

Why Students Should Submit Articles:

• Students have the opportunity to publicly display their legal knowledge and skills.
• The student’s photo, biography, and contact information will be posted with each article, allowing for professional recognition and exposure.
• Winning articles are published alongside those written by respected attorneys from Am Law 200 and other prominent firms as well as from other respected professional associations.
• Now more than ever, business development skills are expected from law firm associates earlier in their careers. NLR wants to give law students valuable experience generating consumer-friendly legal content of the sort which is included for publication in law firm client newsletters, law firm blogs, bar association journals and trade association publications.
• Student postings will remain in the NLR online database for up to two years, easily accessed by potential employers.
• For an example of  a contest winning student written article from Northwestern University, please click here or please review the winning submissions from Spring 2011.

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:

October 2013 Suggested Topic:

1. Immigration Law Reform

• Submission Deadline:  Monday, October 14, 2013

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, containing useful 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.

Students are not required to transfer copyright ownership of their winning articles to the NLR. However, all articles submitted must be clearly identified with any applicable copyright or other proprietary notices. The NLR will accept articles previously published by another publication, provided the author has the authority to grant the right to publish it on the NLR site. Do not submit any material that infringes upon the intellectual property or privacy rights of any third party, including a third party’s unlicensed copyrighted work.

Manuscript Requirements

• Format – HTML (preferred) or Microsoft^® Word
• Length – Articles should be no more than 5,500 words, including endnotes.
• Endnotes and citations – Any citations should be in endnote form and listed at the end of the article. Unreported cases should include docket number and court. Authors are responsible for the accuracy and proper format of related cites. In general, follow the Bluebook. Limit the number of endnotes to only those most essential. Authors are responsible for accuracy of all quoted material.
• Author Biography/Law School Information – Please submit the following:
  1. Full name of author (First Middle Last)
  2. Contact information for author, including e-mail address and phone number
  3. Author photo (recommended but optional) in JPEG format with a maximum file size of 1 MB and in RGB color format. Image size must be at least 150 x 200 pixels.
  4. A brief professional biography of the author, running approximately 100 words or 1,200 characters including spaces.
  5. The law school’s logo in JPEG format with a maximum file size of 1 MB and in RGB color format. Image size must be at least 300 pixels high or 300 pixels wide.
  6. The law school mailing address, main phone number, contact e-mail address, school Web site address, and a brief description of the law school, running no more than 125 words or 2,100 characters including spaces.

To enter, an applicant and any co-authors must be enrolled in an accredited law school within the fifty United States. Employees of The National Law Review are not eligible. Entries must include ALL information listed above to be considered and must be submitted to the National Law Review at lawschools@natlawreview.com. 

Any entry which does not meet the requirements and deadlines outlined herein will be disqualified from the competition. Winners will be notified via e-mail and/or telephone call at least one day prior to publication. Winners will be publicly announced on the NLR home page and via other media.  All prizes are contingent on recipient signing an Affidavit of Eligibility, Publicity Release and Liability Waiver. The National Law Review 2011 Law Student Writing Competition is sponsored by The National Law Forum, LLC, d/b/a The National Law Review, 4700 Gilbert, Suite 47 (#230), Western Springs, IL 60558, 708-357-3317. This contest is void where prohibited by law. All entries must be submitted in accordance with The National Law Review Contributor Guidelines per the terms of the contest rules. A list of winners may be obtained by writing to the address listed above. There is no fee to enter this contest.

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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.)

Congratulations to our 2013, 2012 and 2011 Law Student Writing Contest Winners

Spring 2013:

• Jacob Bethel Woolston from Southern Methodist University, SMU Dedman School of Law: Closing Time for Anheuser-Busch, the NLRB Adopts a Balancing Test When Unions Request Witness Statements
• Sixuan Lu from Southern Methodist University, SMU Dedman School of Law: Far From Perfection: Individual Alternative Minimum Tax Is Still Alive
• Courtney Anne Chicvak from St. John’s University School of Law: From Silver Bullets to Bazookas: Workers’ Innovative Challenge to Wal-Mart’s Employment Practices
• Olivia J. Quinto from Rutgers School of Law: The Siren Song of Securities: The Perils of Expert Networks & The Risks of Insider Trading
• Edward Silverman from Pepperdine University School of Law: The Suspicious Existence of the “Repeat Player Effect” in Mandatory Arbitration of Employment Disputes

Winter 2013:

• Rebecca Heatherly Block from Southern University Law Center: The 1/3: Childhood Obesity in the Twenty First Century

• Chase Anders Manuel from Southern University Law Center: Human Augmentation: A Bioethical Implication Analysis of Cybernetics, Nanotechnology, and Upgrades to the Human Body

Fall 2012: 

• Laura Homan from Chicago-Kent College of Law:Not All “Entries” Are Equal – The Law of “Entry” and “Admission” for Purposes of the Immigration and Nationality Act
• Laura Ploeg from Villanova University School of Law: Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting: A Law Student’s Freewheeling Inquiry
• Lloydann A. Wade from Barry University Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law: 
  Illegal Immigration and Education
• Rouzhna Nayeri from Southern Methodisit University Dedman School of Law:  Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection—Second Circuit Applies The Strict Scrutiny Test And Holds That New York Cannot Prohibit Nonimmigrants From Obtaining Pharmacist Licenses
• Adam Dominic Kielich from Texas Wesleyan University School of Law: What’s Not to “Like” About Workplace Harassment?

Spring 2012:

• More Muni’s, More Problems: Increased Regulation of the Municipal Bond Market And Its Potential Effects on Municipal Bankruptcies and the US Economy by Joseph C. Barsalona, II from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law.
• Ponzi Schemes: Keeping Your “Return” on “Investment” by Penelope Rose Hansen of Atlanta’s John Marshall School of Law.
• Legal Considerations of Cremation Jewelry  by Samantha Taber of Texas Tech University School of Law.

Winter 2012:

• Increasing Offshore Wind Projects:  A Focus on Regulatory Authority by Kiboni Yarling from the Florida Coastal Law School
• The Florida Environmental Approach:  Water Management by William Kirilloff from the Florida Coastal Law School
• Will A Moratorium on Confined Animal Feedling Operations Ever Get Through the Indiana General Assembly by Emily Abraham from the Northeastern University School of Law
• A Void for Vagueness:  Florida Confinement Law/How Animal Welfare Litigators Can Seize Upon a Semantic Loophole by Gautam Jagannath from the Northeastern University School of Law

Fall 2011:

• Trademark Counterfeiting and Individual Purchaser Liability by Lisa Lyne Cunningham from University of Baltimore School of Law
• Ford Motor Credit Company v. Chesterfield County: Reading Constitutional Fairness And Supply Side Economics Into The Virginia Tax Code by Adam Blander  from Brooklyn Law School
• Cost Shifting in e-Discovery: A Comparative Analysis Between America and Europe by Umar Bakhsh from Chicago-Kent College of Law
• Football and Antitrust Law: American Needle v. NFL and It’s Meaning for Combinations in Restraint of Trade and the Rule of Reason in the 21st Century by Michael Sabino from Brooklyn Law School

Why Students Should Submit Articles:

• Students have the opportunity to publicly display their legal knowledge and skills.
• The student’s photo, biography, and contact information will be posted with each article, allowing for professional recognition and exposure.
• Winning articles are published alongside those written by respected attorneys from Am Law 200 and other prominent firms as well as from other respected professional associations.
• Now more than ever, business development skills are expected from law firm associates earlier in their careers. NLR wants to give law students valuable experience generating consumer-friendly legal content of the sort which is included for publication in law firm client newsletters, law firm blogs, bar association journals and trade association publications.
• Student postings will remain in the NLR online database for up to two years, easily accessed by potential employers.
• For an example of  a contest winning student written article from Northwestern University, please click here or please review the winning submissions from Spring 2011.

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:

October 2013 Suggested Topic:

1. Immigration Law Reform

• Submission Deadline:  Monday, October 14, 2013

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, containing useful 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.

Students are not required to transfer copyright ownership of their winning articles to the NLR. However, all articles submitted must be clearly identified with any applicable copyright or other proprietary notices. The NLR will accept articles previously published by another publication, provided the author has the authority to grant the right to publish it on the NLR site. Do not submit any material that infringes upon the intellectual property or privacy rights of any third party, including a third party’s unlicensed copyrighted work.

Manuscript Requirements

• Format – HTML (preferred) or Microsoft^® Word
• Length – Articles should be no more than 5,500 words, including endnotes.
• Endnotes and citations – Any citations should be in endnote form and listed at the end of the article. Unreported cases should include docket number and court. Authors are responsible for the accuracy and proper format of related cites. In general, follow the Bluebook. Limit the number of endnotes to only those most essential. Authors are responsible for accuracy of all quoted material.
• Author Biography/Law School Information – Please submit the following:
  1. Full name of author (First Middle Last)
  2. Contact information for author, including e-mail address and phone number
  3. Author photo (recommended but optional) in JPEG format with a maximum file size of 1 MB and in RGB color format. Image size must be at least 150 x 200 pixels.
  4. A brief professional biography of the author, running approximately 100 words or 1,200 characters including spaces.
  5. The law school’s logo in JPEG format with a maximum file size of 1 MB and in RGB color format. Image size must be at least 300 pixels high or 300 pixels wide.
  6. The law school mailing address, main phone number, contact e-mail address, school Web site address, and a brief description of the law school, running no more than 125 words or 2,100 characters including spaces.

To enter, an applicant and any co-authors must be enrolled in an accredited law school within the fifty United States. Employees of The National Law Review are not eligible. Entries must include ALL information listed above to be considered and must be submitted to the National Law Review at lawschools@natlawreview.com. 

Any entry which does not meet the requirements and deadlines outlined herein will be disqualified from the competition. Winners will be notified via e-mail and/or telephone call at least one day prior to publication. Winners will be publicly announced on the NLR home page and via other media.  All prizes are contingent on recipient signing an Affidavit of Eligibility, Publicity Release and Liability Waiver. The National Law Review 2011 Law Student Writing Competition is sponsored by The National Law Forum, LLC, d/b/a The National Law Review, 4700 Gilbert, Suite 47 (#230), Western Springs, IL 60558, 708-357-3317. This contest is void where prohibited by law. All entries must be submitted in accordance with The National Law Review Contributor Guidelines per the terms of the contest rules. A list of winners may be obtained by writing to the address listed above. There is no fee to enter this contest.

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Attention 2L, 3L and Lateral Candidates:

Join us at the Vault/MCCA Legal Diversity Career Fair!

The Vault/MCCA Legal Diversity Career Fair will provide minority, female, LGBT and candidates with disabilities the opportunity to meet and network with recruiters from law firms and government agencies who are firmly committed to increasing diversity in the legal profession.

When: Friday, August 2, 2013

Where: Capital Hilton, Washington, DC

The post Vault/MCCA Legal Diversity Career Fair – August 2, 2013 appeared first on The National Law Forum.

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 initially be published online in November and December 2011.
• In each of these months, 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.)

Why Students Should Submit Articles:

• Students have the opportunity to publicly display their legal knowledge and skills.
• The student’s photo, biography, and contact information will be posted with each article, allowing for professional recognition and exposure.
• Winning articles are published alongside those written by respected attorneys from Am Law 200 and other prominent firms as well as from other respected professional associations.
• Now more than ever, business development skills are expected from law firm associates earlier in their careers. NLR wants to give law students valuable experience generating consumer-friendly legal content of the sort which is included for publication in law firm client newsletters, law firm blogs, bar association journals and trade association publications.
• Student postings will remain in the NLR online database for up to two years, easily accessed by potential employers.
• For an example of  a contest winning student written article from Northwestern University, please click here or please review the winning submissions from Spring 2011.

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:

• November  2011 Feature: Intellectual Property law, Tax law and Labor & Employment law. (Submission deadline:  Monday October 17th , 2011)
• December 2011 Feature: Healthcare law, Financial Institution law and Bankruptcy and Restructuring law.  (Submissions deadline: Monday November 21st, 2011)

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, containing useful 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.

Students are not required to transfer copyright ownership of their winning articles to the NLR. However, all articles submitted must be clearly identified with any applicable copyright or other proprietary notices. The NLR will accept articles previously published by another publication, provided the author has the authority to grant the right to publish it on the NLR site. Do not submit any material that infringes upon the intellectual property or privacy rights of any third party, including a third party’s unlicensed copyrighted work.

Manuscript Requirements

• Format – HTML (preferred) or Microsoft^® Word
• Length – Articles should be no more than 5,500 words, including endnotes.
• Endnotes and citations – Any citations should be in endnote form and listed at the end of the article. Unreported cases should include docket number and court. Authors are responsible for the accuracy and proper format of related cites. In general, follow the Bluebook. Limit the number of endnotes to only those most essential. Authors are responsible for accuracy of all quoted material.
• Author Biography/Law School Information –Please submit the following:
  1. Full name of author (First Middle Last)
  2. Contact information for author, including e-mail address and phone number
  3. Author photo (recommended but optional) in JPEG format with a maximum file size of 1 MB and in RGB color format. Image size must be at least 150 x 200 pixels.
  4. A brief professional biography of the author, running approximately 100 words or 1,200 characters including spaces.
  5. The law school’s logo in JPEG format with a maximum file size of 1 MB and in RGB color format. Image size must be at least 300 pixels high or 300 pixels wide.
  6. The law school mailing address, main phone number, contact e-mail address, school Web site address, and a brief description of the law school, running no more than 125 words or 2,100 characters including spaces.

To enter, an applicant and any co-authors must be enrolled in an accredited law school within the fifty United States. Employees of The National Law Review are not eligible. Entries must include ALL information listed above to be considered and must be submitted to the National Law Review at lawschools@natlawreview.com. 

Any entry which does not meet the requirements and deadlines outlined herein will be disqualified from the competition. Winners will be notified via e-mail and/or telephone call at least one day prior to publication. Winners will be publicly announced on the NLR home page and via other media.  All prizes are contingent on recipient signing an Affidavit of Eligibility, Publicity Release and Liability Waiver. The National Law Review 2011 Law Student Writing Competition is sponsored by The National Law Forum, LLC, d/b/a The National Law Review, 4700 Gilbert, Suite 47 (#230), Western Springs, IL 60558, 708-357-3317. This contest is void where prohibited by law. All entries must be submitted in accordance with The National Law Review Contributor Guidelines per the terms of the contest rules. A list of winners may be obtained by writing to the address listed above. There is no fee to enter this contest.

Congratulations to our Spring 2011 Law Student Writing Contest Winners!

Spring 2011:

• The “Initial Interest Confusion” Test – Analysis and Proposal for a Sensible Formulation for Use on the Internet by Jaclyn Coronado Sitjar from Saint Louis University School of Law
• Notions of the Transformative in Law and the Visual Arts by Aimée Scala  from Brooklyn Law School
• Defining “Journalist”: Whether and How A Federal Reporter’s Shield Law Should Apply to Bloggers by Laura Katherine Layton from Georgetown University Law Center
• H.R. 848, The Performance Rights Act: The Recording Industry’s Saving Grace? by Nyasha Shani Foy from New York Law School 
• More Than Just An Algorithm: Reconciling The Necessity For Disaggregating The Business Method, With Bilski’s Abstract Test  by Andrew L. Schwartz  from Hofstra Law School 
• “Innocent” Criminals: Criminal Copyright Infringement, Willfulness and Fair Use by Charles Francis Scott  from Pace University School of Law
• Antitrust, Intellectual Property Rights, and the Online Music Industry: An Antitrust Analysis of Apple’s Combination of Services and Products by Rui Li from The University of Iowa College of Law
• From Trips to ACTA: Establishing the Intent to Uphold Access to Medicine in the Face of Ambiguity by  Guadalupe A. Lopez  from American University Washington College of Law 
• Standing and In Pari Delicto Issues Arising in Bankruptcy Cases by Rui Li from The University of Iowa College of Law
• Selling the Main Street Fairness Act: A Viable Solution to the Internet Sales Tax Problem by Michael J. Payne, CPA from Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law 
• Employers are Watching Your Facebook: Worker Privacy Significantly Diminished in the Digital Era by Michael Carlin  from University of Minnesota Law School
• The Need for a Detailed Procedure of Judicial Review of Civil Rights Arbitration Awards after Rent-A-Center West, Inc. v. Jackson by Nicole Farbes-Lyons from St. John’s University School of Law
• IKEA’s Way to Eternal Life: A Deconstruction of the Furniture Giant’s International Tax Practicesby Julia W. Gin from Santa Clara University School of Law

The post NLR 2011 Law Student Writing Competition appeared first on The National Law Forum.

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 initially be published online in November and December 2011.
• In each of these months, 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.)

Why Students Should Submit Articles:

• Students have the opportunity to publicly display their legal knowledge and skills.
• The student’s photo, biography, and contact information will be posted with each article, allowing for professional recognition and exposure.
• Winning articles are published alongside those written by respected attorneys from Am Law 200 and other prominent firms as well as from other respected professional associations.
• Now more than ever, business development skills are expected from law firm associates earlier in their careers. NLR wants to give law students valuable experience generating consumer-friendly legal content of the sort which is included for publication in law firm client newsletters, law firm blogs, bar association journals and trade association publications.
• Student postings will remain in the NLR online database for up to two years, easily accessed by potential employers.
• For an example of  a contest winning student written article from Northwestern University, please click here or please review the winning submissions from Spring 2011.

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:

• November  2011 Feature: Intellectual Property law, Tax law and Labor & Employment law. (Submission deadline:  Monday October 17th , 2011)
• December 2011 Feature: Healthcare law, Financial Institution law and Bankruptcy and Restructuring law.  (Submissions deadline: Monday November 21st, 2011)

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, containing useful 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.

Students are not required to transfer copyright ownership of their winning articles to the NLR. However, all articles submitted must be clearly identified with any applicable copyright or other proprietary notices. The NLR will accept articles previously published by another publication, provided the author has the authority to grant the right to publish it on the NLR site. Do not submit any material that infringes upon the intellectual property or privacy rights of any third party, including a third party’s unlicensed copyrighted work.

Manuscript Requirements

• Format – HTML (preferred) or Microsoft^® Word
• Length – Articles should be no more than 5,500 words, including endnotes.
• Endnotes and citations – Any citations should be in endnote form and listed at the end of the article. Unreported cases should include docket number and court. Authors are responsible for the accuracy and proper format of related cites. In general, follow the Bluebook. Limit the number of endnotes to only those most essential. Authors are responsible for accuracy of all quoted material.
• Author Biography/Law School Information –Please submit the following:
  1. Full name of author (First Middle Last)
  2. Contact information for author, including e-mail address and phone number
  3. Author photo (recommended but optional) in JPEG format with a maximum file size of 1 MB and in RGB color format. Image size must be at least 150 x 200 pixels.
  4. A brief professional biography of the author, running approximately 100 words or 1,200 characters including spaces.
  5. The law school’s logo in JPEG format with a maximum file size of 1 MB and in RGB color format. Image size must be at least 300 pixels high or 300 pixels wide.
  6. The law school mailing address, main phone number, contact e-mail address, school Web site address, and a brief description of the law school, running no more than 125 words or 2,100 characters including spaces.

To enter, an applicant and any co-authors must be enrolled in an accredited law school within the fifty United States. Employees of The National Law Review are not eligible. Entries must include ALL information listed above to be considered and must be submitted to the National Law Review at lawschools@natlawreview.com. 

Any entry which does not meet the requirements and deadlines outlined herein will be disqualified from the competition. Winners will be notified via e-mail and/or telephone call at least one day prior to publication. Winners will be publicly announced on the NLR home page and via other media.  All prizes are contingent on recipient signing an Affidavit of Eligibility, Publicity Release and Liability Waiver. The National Law Review 2011 Law Student Writing Competition is sponsored by The National Law Forum, LLC, d/b/a The National Law Review, 4700 Gilbert, Suite 47 (#230), Western Springs, IL 60558, 708-357-3317. This contest is void where prohibited by law. All entries must be submitted in accordance with The National Law Review Contributor Guidelines per the terms of the contest rules. A list of winners may be obtained by writing to the address listed above. There is no fee to enter this contest.

Congratulations to our Spring 2011 Law Student Writing Contest Winners!

Spring 2011:

• The “Initial Interest Confusion” Test – Analysis and Proposal for a Sensible Formulation for Use on the Internet by Jaclyn Coronado Sitjar from Saint Louis University School of Law
• Notions of the Transformative in Law and the Visual Arts by Aimée Scala  from Brooklyn Law School
• Defining “Journalist”: Whether and How A Federal Reporter’s Shield Law Should Apply to Bloggers by Laura Katherine Layton from Georgetown University Law Center
• H.R. 848, The Performance Rights Act: The Recording Industry’s Saving Grace? by Nyasha Shani Foy from New York Law School 
• More Than Just An Algorithm: Reconciling The Necessity For Disaggregating The Business Method, With Bilski’s Abstract Test  by Andrew L. Schwartz  from Hofstra Law School 
• “Innocent” Criminals: Criminal Copyright Infringement, Willfulness and Fair Use by Charles Francis Scott  from Pace University School of Law
• Antitrust, Intellectual Property Rights, and the Online Music Industry: An Antitrust Analysis of Apple’s Combination of Services and Products by Rui Li from The University of Iowa College of Law
• From Trips to ACTA: Establishing the Intent to Uphold Access to Medicine in the Face of Ambiguity by  Guadalupe A. Lopez  from American University Washington College of Law 
• Standing and In Pari Delicto Issues Arising in Bankruptcy Cases by Rui Li from The University of Iowa College of Law
• Selling the Main Street Fairness Act: A Viable Solution to the Internet Sales Tax Problem by Michael J. Payne, CPA from Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law 
• Employers are Watching Your Facebook: Worker Privacy Significantly Diminished in the Digital Era by Michael Carlin  from University of Minnesota Law School
• The Need for a Detailed Procedure of Judicial Review of Civil Rights Arbitration Awards after Rent-A-Center West, Inc. v. Jackson by Nicole Farbes-Lyons from St. John’s University School of Law
• IKEA’s Way to Eternal Life: A Deconstruction of the Furniture Giant’s International Tax Practicesby Julia W. Gin from Santa Clara University School of Law

The post NLR 2011 Law Student Writing Competition appeared first on The National Law Forum.

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 initially be published online in November and December 2011.
• In each of these months, 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.)

Why Students Should Submit Articles:

• Students have the opportunity to publicly display their legal knowledge and skills.
• The student’s photo, biography, and contact information will be posted with each article, allowing for professional recognition and exposure.
• Winning articles are published alongside those written by respected attorneys from Am Law 200 and other prominent firms as well as from other respected professional associations.
• Now more than ever, business development skills are expected from law firm associates earlier in their careers. NLR wants to give law students valuable experience generating consumer-friendly legal content of the sort which is included for publication in law firm client newsletters, law firm blogs, bar association journals and trade association publications.
• Student postings will remain in the NLR online database for up to two years, easily accessed by potential employers.
• For an example of  a contest winning student written article from Northwestern University, please click here or please review the winning submissions from Spring 2011.

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:

• November  2011 Feature: Intellectual Property law, Tax law and Labor & Employment law. (Submission deadline:  Monday October 17th , 2011)
• December 2011 Feature: Healthcare law, Financial Institution law and Bankruptcy and Restructuring law.  (Submissions deadline: Monday November 21st, 2011)

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, containing useful 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.

Students are not required to transfer copyright ownership of their winning articles to the NLR. However, all articles submitted must be clearly identified with any applicable copyright or other proprietary notices. The NLR will accept articles previously published by another publication, provided the author has the authority to grant the right to publish it on the NLR site. Do not submit any material that infringes upon the intellectual property or privacy rights of any third party, including a third party’s unlicensed copyrighted work.

Manuscript Requirements

• Format – HTML (preferred) or Microsoft^® Word
• Length – Articles should be no more than 5,500 words, including endnotes.
• Endnotes and citations – Any citations should be in endnote form and listed at the end of the article. Unreported cases should include docket number and court. Authors are responsible for the accuracy and proper format of related cites. In general, follow the Bluebook. Limit the number of endnotes to only those most essential. Authors are responsible for accuracy of all quoted material.
• Author Biography/Law School Information –Please submit the following:
  1. Full name of author (First Middle Last)
  2. Contact information for author, including e-mail address and phone number
  3. Author photo (recommended but optional) in JPEG format with a maximum file size of 1 MB and in RGB color format. Image size must be at least 150 x 200 pixels.
  4. A brief professional biography of the author, running approximately 100 words or 1,200 characters including spaces.
  5. The law school’s logo in JPEG format with a maximum file size of 1 MB and in RGB color format. Image size must be at least 300 pixels high or 300 pixels wide.
  6. The law school mailing address, main phone number, contact e-mail address, school Web site address, and a brief description of the law school, running no more than 125 words or 2,100 characters including spaces.

To enter, an applicant and any co-authors must be enrolled in an accredited law school within the fifty United States. Employees of The National Law Review are not eligible. Entries must include ALL information listed above to be considered and must be submitted to the National Law Review at lawschools@natlawreview.com. 

Any entry which does not meet the requirements and deadlines outlined herein will be disqualified from the competition. Winners will be notified via e-mail and/or telephone call at least one day prior to publication. Winners will be publicly announced on the NLR home page and via other media.  All prizes are contingent on recipient signing an Affidavit of Eligibility, Publicity Release and Liability Waiver. The National Law Review 2011 Law Student Writing Competition is sponsored by The National Law Forum, LLC, d/b/a The National Law Review, 4700 Gilbert, Suite 47 (#230), Western Springs, IL 60558, 708-357-3317. This contest is void where prohibited by law. All entries must be submitted in accordance with The National Law Review Contributor Guidelines per the terms of the contest rules. A list of winners may be obtained by writing to the address listed above. There is no fee to enter this contest.

Congratulations to our Spring 2011 Law Student Writing Contest Winners!

Spring 2011:

• The “Initial Interest Confusion” Test – Analysis and Proposal for a Sensible Formulation for Use on the Internet by Jaclyn Coronado Sitjar from Saint Louis University School of Law
• Notions of the Transformative in Law and the Visual Arts by Aimée Scala  from Brooklyn Law School
• Defining “Journalist”: Whether and How A Federal Reporter’s Shield Law Should Apply to Bloggers by Laura Katherine Layton from Georgetown University Law Center
• H.R. 848, The Performance Rights Act: The Recording Industry’s Saving Grace? by Nyasha Shani Foy from New York Law School 
• More Than Just An Algorithm: Reconciling The Necessity For Disaggregating The Business Method, With Bilski’s Abstract Test  by Andrew L. Schwartz  from Hofstra Law School 
• “Innocent” Criminals: Criminal Copyright Infringement, Willfulness and Fair Use by Charles Francis Scott  from Pace University School of Law
• Antitrust, Intellectual Property Rights, and the Online Music Industry: An Antitrust Analysis of Apple’s Combination of Services and Products by Rui Li from The University of Iowa College of Law
• From Trips to ACTA: Establishing the Intent to Uphold Access to Medicine in the Face of Ambiguity by  Guadalupe A. Lopez  from American University Washington College of Law 
• Standing and In Pari Delicto Issues Arising in Bankruptcy Cases by Rui Li from The University of Iowa College of Law
• Selling the Main Street Fairness Act: A Viable Solution to the Internet Sales Tax Problem by Michael J. Payne, CPA from Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law 
• Employers are Watching Your Facebook: Worker Privacy Significantly Diminished in the Digital Era by Michael Carlin  from University of Minnesota Law School
• The Need for a Detailed Procedure of Judicial Review of Civil Rights Arbitration Awards after Rent-A-Center West, Inc. v. Jackson by Nicole Farbes-Lyons from St. John’s University School of Law
• IKEA’s Way to Eternal Life: A Deconstruction of the Furniture Giant’s International Tax Practicesby Julia W. Gin from Santa Clara University School of Law

The post NLR 2011 Law Student Writing Competition appeared first on The National Law Forum.

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 initially be published online in November and December 2011.
• In each of these months, 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.)

Why Students Should Submit Articles:

• Students have the opportunity to publicly display their legal knowledge and skills.
• The student’s photo, biography, and contact information will be posted with each article, allowing for professional recognition and exposure.
• Winning articles are published alongside those written by respected attorneys from Am Law 200 and other prominent firms as well as from other respected professional associations.
• Now more than ever, business development skills are expected from law firm associates earlier in their careers. NLR wants to give law students valuable experience generating consumer-friendly legal content of the sort which is included for publication in law firm client newsletters, law firm blogs, bar association journals and trade association publications.
• Student postings will remain in the NLR online database for up to two years, easily accessed by potential employers.
• For an example of  a contest winning student written article from Northwestern University, please click here or please review the winning submissions from Spring 2011.

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:

• November  2011 Feature: Intellectual Property law, Tax law and Labor & Employment law. (Submission deadline:  Monday October 17th , 2011)
• December 2011 Feature: Healthcare law, Financial Institution law and Bankruptcy and Restructuring law.  (Submissions deadline: Monday November 21st, 2011)

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, containing useful 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.

Students are not required to transfer copyright ownership of their winning articles to the NLR. However, all articles submitted must be clearly identified with any applicable copyright or other proprietary notices. The NLR will accept articles previously published by another publication, provided the author has the authority to grant the right to publish it on the NLR site. Do not submit any material that infringes upon the intellectual property or privacy rights of any third party, including a third party’s unlicensed copyrighted work.

Manuscript Requirements

• Format – HTML (preferred) or Microsoft^® Word
• Length – Articles should be no more than 5,500 words, including endnotes.
• Endnotes and citations – Any citations should be in endnote form and listed at the end of the article. Unreported cases should include docket number and court. Authors are responsible for the accuracy and proper format of related cites. In general, follow the Bluebook. Limit the number of endnotes to only those most essential. Authors are responsible for accuracy of all quoted material.
• Author Biography/Law School Information –Please submit the following:
  1. Full name of author (First Middle Last)
  2. Contact information for author, including e-mail address and phone number
  3. Author photo (recommended but optional) in JPEG format with a maximum file size of 1 MB and in RGB color format. Image size must be at least 150 x 200 pixels.
  4. A brief professional biography of the author, running approximately 100 words or 1,200 characters including spaces.
  5. The law school’s logo in JPEG format with a maximum file size of 1 MB and in RGB color format. Image size must be at least 300 pixels high or 300 pixels wide.
  6. The law school mailing address, main phone number, contact e-mail address, school Web site address, and a brief description of the law school, running no more than 125 words or 2,100 characters including spaces.

To enter, an applicant and any co-authors must be enrolled in an accredited law school within the fifty United States. Employees of The National Law Review are not eligible. Entries must include ALL information listed above to be considered and must be submitted to the National Law Review at lawschools@natlawreview.com. 

Any entry which does not meet the requirements and deadlines outlined herein will be disqualified from the competition. Winners will be notified via e-mail and/or telephone call at least one day prior to publication. Winners will be publicly announced on the NLR home page and via other media.  All prizes are contingent on recipient signing an Affidavit of Eligibility, Publicity Release and Liability Waiver. The National Law Review 2011 Law Student Writing Competition is sponsored by The National Law Forum, LLC, d/b/a The National Law Review, 4700 Gilbert, Suite 47 (#230), Western Springs, IL 60558, 708-357-3317. This contest is void where prohibited by law. All entries must be submitted in accordance with The National Law Review Contributor Guidelines per the terms of the contest rules. A list of winners may be obtained by writing to the address listed above. There is no fee to enter this contest.

Congratulations to our Spring 2011 Law Student Writing Contest Winners!

Spring 2011:

• The “Initial Interest Confusion” Test – Analysis and Proposal for a Sensible Formulation for Use on the Internet by Jaclyn Coronado Sitjar from Saint Louis University School of Law
• Notions of the Transformative in Law and the Visual Arts by Aimée Scala  from Brooklyn Law School
• Defining “Journalist”: Whether and How A Federal Reporter’s Shield Law Should Apply to Bloggers by Laura Katherine Layton from Georgetown University Law Center
• H.R. 848, The Performance Rights Act: The Recording Industry’s Saving Grace? by Nyasha Shani Foy from New York Law School 
• More Than Just An Algorithm: Reconciling The Necessity For Disaggregating The Business Method, With Bilski’s Abstract Test  by Andrew L. Schwartz  from Hofstra Law School 
• “Innocent” Criminals: Criminal Copyright Infringement, Willfulness and Fair Use by Charles Francis Scott  from Pace University School of Law
• Antitrust, Intellectual Property Rights, and the Online Music Industry: An Antitrust Analysis of Apple’s Combination of Services and Products by Rui Li from The University of Iowa College of Law
• From Trips to ACTA: Establishing the Intent to Uphold Access to Medicine in the Face of Ambiguity by  Guadalupe A. Lopez  from American University Washington College of Law 
• Standing and In Pari Delicto Issues Arising in Bankruptcy Cases by Rui Li from The University of Iowa College of Law
• Selling the Main Street Fairness Act: A Viable Solution to the Internet Sales Tax Problem by Michael J. Payne, CPA from Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law 
• Employers are Watching Your Facebook: Worker Privacy Significantly Diminished in the Digital Era by Michael Carlin  from University of Minnesota Law School
• The Need for a Detailed Procedure of Judicial Review of Civil Rights Arbitration Awards after Rent-A-Center West, Inc. v. Jackson by Nicole Farbes-Lyons from St. John’s University School of Law
• IKEA’s Way to Eternal Life: A Deconstruction of the Furniture Giant’s International Tax Practicesby Julia W. Gin from Santa Clara University School of Law

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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 initially be published online in November and December 2011.
• In each of these months, 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.)

Why Students Should Submit Articles:

• Students have the opportunity to publicly display their legal knowledge and skills.
• The student’s photo, biography, and contact information will be posted with each article, allowing for professional recognition and exposure.
• Winning articles are published alongside those written by respected attorneys from Am Law 200 and other prominent firms as well as from other respected professional associations.
• Now more than ever, business development skills are expected from law firm associates earlier in their careers. NLR wants to give law students valuable experience generating consumer-friendly legal content of the sort which is included for publication in law firm client newsletters, law firm blogs, bar association journals and trade association publications.
• Student postings will remain in the NLR online database for up to two years, easily accessed by potential employers.
• For an example of  a contest winning student written article from Northwestern University, please click here or please review the winning submissions from Spring 2011.

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:

• November  2011 Feature: Intellectual Property law, Tax law and Labor & Employment law. (Submission deadline:  Monday October 17th , 2011)
• December 2011 Feature: Healthcare law, Financial Institution law and Bankruptcy and Restructuring law.  (Submissions deadline: Monday November 21st, 2011)

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, containing useful 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.

Students are not required to transfer copyright ownership of their winning articles to the NLR. However, all articles submitted must be clearly identified with any applicable copyright or other proprietary notices. The NLR will accept articles previously published by another publication, provided the author has the authority to grant the right to publish it on the NLR site. Do not submit any material that infringes upon the intellectual property or privacy rights of any third party, including a third party’s unlicensed copyrighted work.

Manuscript Requirements

• Format – HTML (preferred) or Microsoft^® Word
• Length – Articles should be no more than 5,500 words, including endnotes.
• Endnotes and citations – Any citations should be in endnote form and listed at the end of the article. Unreported cases should include docket number and court. Authors are responsible for the accuracy and proper format of related cites. In general, follow the Bluebook. Limit the number of endnotes to only those most essential. Authors are responsible for accuracy of all quoted material.
• Author Biography/Law School Information –Please submit the following:
  1. Full name of author (First Middle Last)
  2. Contact information for author, including e-mail address and phone number
  3. Author photo (recommended but optional) in JPEG format with a maximum file size of 1 MB and in RGB color format. Image size must be at least 150 x 200 pixels.
  4. A brief professional biography of the author, running approximately 100 words or 1,200 characters including spaces.
  5. The law school’s logo in JPEG format with a maximum file size of 1 MB and in RGB color format. Image size must be at least 300 pixels high or 300 pixels wide.
  6. The law school mailing address, main phone number, contact e-mail address, school Web site address, and a brief description of the law school, running no more than 125 words or 2,100 characters including spaces.

To enter, an applicant and any co-authors must be enrolled in an accredited law school within the fifty United States. Employees of The National Law Review are not eligible. Entries must include ALL information listed above to be considered and must be submitted to the National Law Review at lawschools@natlawreview.com. 

Any entry which does not meet the requirements and deadlines outlined herein will be disqualified from the competition. Winners will be notified via e-mail and/or telephone call at least one day prior to publication. Winners will be publicly announced on the NLR home page and via other media.  All prizes are contingent on recipient signing an Affidavit of Eligibility, Publicity Release and Liability Waiver. The National Law Review 2011 Law Student Writing Competition is sponsored by The National Law Forum, LLC, d/b/a The National Law Review, 4700 Gilbert, Suite 47 (#230), Western Springs, IL 60558, 708-357-3317. This contest is void where prohibited by law. All entries must be submitted in accordance with The National Law Review Contributor Guidelines per the terms of the contest rules. A list of winners may be obtained by writing to the address listed above. There is no fee to enter this contest.

Congratulations to our Spring 2011 Law Student Writing Contest Winners!

Spring 2011:

• The “Initial Interest Confusion” Test – Analysis and Proposal for a Sensible Formulation for Use on the Internet by Jaclyn Coronado Sitjar from Saint Louis University School of Law
• Notions of the Transformative in Law and the Visual Arts by Aimée Scala  from Brooklyn Law School
• Defining “Journalist”: Whether and How A Federal Reporter’s Shield Law Should Apply to Bloggers by Laura Katherine Layton from Georgetown University Law Center
• H.R. 848, The Performance Rights Act: The Recording Industry’s Saving Grace? by Nyasha Shani Foy from New York Law School 
• More Than Just An Algorithm: Reconciling The Necessity For Disaggregating The Business Method, With Bilski’s Abstract Test  by Andrew L. Schwartz  from Hofstra Law School 
• “Innocent” Criminals: Criminal Copyright Infringement, Willfulness and Fair Use by Charles Francis Scott  from Pace University School of Law
• Antitrust, Intellectual Property Rights, and the Online Music Industry: An Antitrust Analysis of Apple’s Combination of Services and Products by Rui Li from The University of Iowa College of Law
• From Trips to ACTA: Establishing the Intent to Uphold Access to Medicine in the Face of Ambiguity by  Guadalupe A. Lopez  from American University Washington College of Law 
• Standing and In Pari Delicto Issues Arising in Bankruptcy Cases by Rui Li from The University of Iowa College of Law
• Selling the Main Street Fairness Act: A Viable Solution to the Internet Sales Tax Problem by Michael J. Payne, CPA from Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law 
• Employers are Watching Your Facebook: Worker Privacy Significantly Diminished in the Digital Era by Michael Carlin  from University of Minnesota Law School
• The Need for a Detailed Procedure of Judicial Review of Civil Rights Arbitration Awards after Rent-A-Center West, Inc. v. Jackson by Nicole Farbes-Lyons from St. John’s University School of Law
• IKEA’s Way to Eternal Life: A Deconstruction of the Furniture Giant’s International Tax Practicesby Julia W. Gin from Santa Clara University School of Law

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