The Scribes Award
Presented by
The American Society of Legal Writers
The Scribes Law-Review Award Since 1987, Scribes has presented an annual award for the best student-written article in a law review or journal. The Scribes Law-Review Award is presented at the annual National Conference of Law Reviews. The 2009 Scribes Law-Review Award will be presented Thursday, March 19th at 6:00 p.m. joined by Keynote Speaker (TBA) and dinner.
About the organization Scribes was founded in 1953 to honor legal writers and encourage a "clear, succinct, and forceful style in legal writing." They seek to promote better writing across the legal community - in the courthouse, the law office, the publishing house, and the law school. Scribes is a national society of judges, lawyers, law professors, legal publishers, legal writers, and legal editors who are dedicated to improving legal writing across the profession. For fifty years, Scribes has pursued that goal by sponsoring competitions, workshops, and institutes, and by publishing legal periodicals, including the first scholarly journal devoted exclusively to effective legal writing, The Scribes Journal of Legal Writing. Scribes is an honorary society of over 1,000 members, each of whom has received a law degree and has written at least one published book, two published articles, or two published judicial opinions. Its members serve on nine committees, some of which choose the winners of the annual Book Award, Brief-Writing Award, and Law-Review Award. The winners of these awards typify the clear, concise, felicitous legal writing that Scribes strives to promote. Scribes also presents legal-writing workshops and seminars, often at the Annual Meeting of the American Bar Association. The Scribes home office is at Thomas M. Cooley Law School. The information contained on this page is provided by official Scribes website. For more information or to view recent recipients of the award, visit http://www.scribes.org/index.html
