Did you know the ABA presents over 100 awards and distributes over $100,000 in awards and grants each year? Over 20 of these awards and grants have been specifically designed for law schools or law students, including writing competitions and fellowships. Don’t miss the opportunity to gain recognition for your accomplishments, that of your law school or student organization.

Arbitration Competition
Co-sponsored by the National Arbitration Forum, this competition promotes excellence in arbitration advocacy
Award: Cash prize

Client Counseling Competition
A competition promoting preventive law and counseling functions.
Award: Cash prize

Negotiation Competition
The competition simulates legal negotiations in which law students, acting as lawyers, negotiate a series of legal problems.
Award: Cash prize

National Appellate Advocacy Competition
A traditional moot court competition focusing on written and oral advocacy skills.
Award: Cash prize

Environment, Energy, and Resources and the Environmental Law Institute
Pace Law School's National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition

Tax Section
Law Student Tax Challenge
Award: Cash prizes, complimentary travel and lodging to Tax Section Midyear Meeting location, notice of award on Section's website and in its NewsQuarterly newsletter and e-News.

Section of Dispute Resolution
Representation in Mediation Competition

Be sure to see the ABA Law Student Division's complete list of awards that are awarded to students and schools during the ABA Annual Meeting.

Center for Professional Responsibility
E. Smythe Gambrell Professionalism Award
Recognizes projects contributing to the understanding of professionalism among lawyers. Law schools, bar associations, law firms and other law-related organizations are elgible.
Entry deadline: March
Award: $3,500 to a law school or law organization

American Bar Association
Legal Opportunity Scholarship Fund
Award: $5,000 financial assistance annually per student
Application deadline: March
Eligibility: Must be entering first year of law school in the fall of 2009

Business Law, Section of
Council on Legal Education Opportunities (CLEO) Scholarship
Awards: Five $1,000 scholarships and subsidized travel and attendance to the Section’s Spring Meeting awarded to CLEO Fellow Scholars selected based on an essay competition.
Application Deadline: January

Communications Law Forum Committee
Scholarship to attend the Forum Committee's Annual Conference
Award: Funding to attend Forum Annual Conference and opportunity to write report for publication in their publication, Communication Lawyer (more information)

Asian Pacific American Bar Association Educational Fund (AEF)
Robert T. Matsui Annual Writing Competition
Award: $1,500 and publication in the UCLA Asian Pacific American Law Journal
Entry deadline: June
For questions or additional information visit www.aefdc.org

Assisted Reproduction/Family/Adoption Law
Third Annual Embryo Law Essay Competition
Award: $5,000 cash
Entry deadline: March

National Association of Chapter 13 Trustees
Law Student Writing Competition
Entry deadline: April

National Association of Women Lawyers
3rd Annual Selma Moidel Smith Law Student Writing Competition
Award: $500 and publication in the NAWL Women Lawyers Journal
Entry deadline: April

The National Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Bar Association
Michael Greenberg Student Writing Competition
Awards: $3,000, $2,000, and $1,000. First-place winner will also receive registration, airfare and lodging to attend the Lavender Law Conference and publication in the Journal of Law and Sexuality at Tulane University Law School.
Entry deadline: June
For questions or additional information visit http://www.nlgla.org/

Hofstra Law School and the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts 
Family Law Writing Competition
Eligibility: Law students 
Award: 500$ cash prize and consideration for publication in the Family Court Review. 
Article Submission Deadline: March
For more information and details visit law.hofstra.edu/fcr

Council on Legal Education Opportunities
A Thurgood Marshall Legal Education Opportunity Program
Information on financial aid programs for students intending to enter law school and those presently enrolled and have substantial financial need can be obtained by contacting the Council on Legal Education Opportunities (CLEO).

For more information, the ABA Center for Racial and Ethnic Diversity also has a listing of links and organizations offering scholarships, grants, fellowships and other financial assistance to women and minority law students.

Essay/Writing Competitions:
-- ABA
-- Other Opportunities
Trial Advocacy Competitions
Awards
Scholarships
Financial Aid

ABA Journal -- Ross Essay Contest
There will not be a Ross Essay Contest held in 2010. As a result of the stock market's performance, funds in the trust dropped below levels required by the Ross bequest. When the trust recovers, the contest will be announced in the ABA Journal and on ABAJournal.com.

Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice
Gellhorn-Sargentich Law Student Essay Contest
Award: $500 cash prize and round-trip airfare and accommodation to attend the Section’s Fall Conference; possible publication in Administrative and Regulatory Law News.
Entry deadline: March

Affordable Housing and Community Development Forum Committee
Forum on Affordable Housing and Community Development Law Writing Competition
Winner will receive airfare and lodging to attend the Forum Committee's Annual Conference where prize will be presented
Award: $1,000 plus possible publication in the Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Development Law
Postmark deadline: March

Air and Space Law Forum Committee
Law Student Writing Competition
Award: $5,000 and published in The Air and Space Lawyer.
Entry deadline: June
Co-sponsored by Rolls-Royce North America, Inc.
Guidelines -- Topics

Antitrust Law Section
Writing Competition
Award: First Place: $2,000, registration fee, transportation, lodging and luncheon at Antitrust Spring Meeting in Washington, DC. Second Place Award: $500
Article submission deadline:  January

Business Law, Section of
Mendes Hershman Student Writing Contest
Award: First place receives $2,500, travel and lodging to attend the Section’s Spring Meeting, possible publication in The Business Lawyer.
Entry deadline: January

Criminal Justice Section
Annual William W. Greenhalgh Student Writing Competition
Award: $2,000, publication of winning essay in Criminal Justice magazine, and expense-paid trip to ABA Annual Meeting
Entry deadline: April

Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law
Adam A. Milani Disability Law Writing Competition
Award: $300 to $500 and a possible invitation to be published in the ABA Mental and Physical Disability Law Reporter.
Entry deadline: June

Commission on Domestic Violence
Annual Law Student Writing Competition
Award: 1st place receives $750, 2nd place, $500 and 3rd place, $250
Entry deadline: March

Entertainment and Sports Industry Forum Committee and the Recording Academy Entertainment Law Initiative (ELI)
Annual GRAMMY® Foundation Entertainment Law Initiative (ELI) Writing Contest
Award: $5,000, plus all expenses to Grammy Awards
For additional information, visit Facebook.com and search for "The Entertainment Law Initiative". If you are not a Facebook user simply send an e-mail to eli@grammy.com
Entry deadline: January

Environmental, Energy and Resources Law
Student Writing Competition
Postmarked Deadline: February

Family Law Section
Howard C. Schwab Memorial Essay Contest
Award: Possible publication in Family Law Quarterly
Postmarked entry deadline: May

Health Law
Health Law Writing Competition
Award: $500 plus travel and lodging to the Section's Emerging Issues Program
Deadline for entry: December

International Law
Rona R. Mears Student Writing Competition & Scholarship Awards
Award: 2 Winners receive $1,000 prize each plus a travel stipend to the Section’s Spring Meeting for the presentation of the Award. Publication of Essays in a Section Publication
Deadline for entry: January

Intellectual Property
ABA-BNA Award for Excellence in the Study of Intellectual Property Law
Deadline for entry: Ongoing--winners chosen by participating schools

Labor and Employment Law
Labor Lawyer Student Writing Contest
Award: $500
Postmarked entry deadline: August

Law and National Security
National Security Writing Competition, Redefining Liberty in the 21st Century
Award: Winner will receive a cash prize and a free registration to the 2009 National Security Law Conference
Postmarked entry deadline: August

Lawyers' Professional Liability Standing Committee and Long & Levit LLP
Levit Essay Contest on Lawyers' Professional Liability
Award: $5,000 plus an expense-paid trip to the Spring National Legal Malpractice Conference
Postmark entry deadline: February 19, 2010
Entrants must be a member of the ABA Law Student Division or Young Lawyers Division no later than February 15 to be eligible.

Public Contract Law
Writing Competition
Award: 1st place receives $5,000, publication in the Public Contract Law Journal, and possible presentation of paper at the Federal Procurement Institute. 2nd Place, $2,500 and 3rd place, $1,000.
Entry Deadline: September

Public Education
Judge Edward R. Finch Law Day Speech Award
Award: Inscribed plaque and $100 toward purchase of Law Day materials. Winning entries will be prominently featured in next year's planning guide and on the Law Day website.
Entry Deadline: June

Public Utility, Communications and Transportation
Law Student Writing Competition
Award: $2,500, travel and lodging to Section's Fall Council Group Meeting, notice of winning in Infrastructure newsletter.
Entry Deadline: June

Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Section
RPTE Section Student Writing Contest
Award: First place winner will receive $2,000 cash, one-year free Section membership, expense-paid trip to attend the Section's Fall Council Meeting.
Postmark entry deadline: June

Science & Technology Law
Law Student Writing Contest
Award: The winner will receive a trip to the ABA Annual Meeting and may have his or her submission published in The SciTech Lawyer.
Entry d eadline: March

Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section (TIPS)
Law Student Writing Competition
First Place Award: $1,500, airfare and lodging to ABA Annual Meeting, possible publication in Tort Trial & Insurance Law Journal. Second Place Award: $500.
All winners will be announced in the Section's magazine, The Brief.
Entry deadline: March

Women in the Profession (Commission on)
20th Anniversary Video/Essay Competition
First Place Award: $500 honorarium
Entry Deadline: December