• Appointed by the Division Chair. Serves as a non-voting member of the Division's Board of Governors. Works closely with the staff editor and the chair of the Operations and Publications Committee that officially oversees production of the magazine.
• Attends meetings of the Division Board of Governors (with most travel-related expenses reimbursed by the Law Student Division subject to Division guidelines):

Spring meeting (March or April)
Summer Annual Meeting (August)
Fall meeting (November)
Spring meeting: (March or April)

• Prepares a report of student editor activities for the Board of Governors for each of the board's meetings
• To carry out the duties of the position, the student editor should have an e-mail account that can handle multiple file attachments. Because of tight magazine production deadlines, the student editor must generally be able to return phone or e-mail inquiries from the staff editor or Ops and Pubs chair within 24 hours.
• The student editor is responsible for generating (through writing or assigning/editing) about 2,500-4,000 words per month for Student Lawyer's Division Dialogue section. Copy is due via e-mail attachments to the staff editor on the first of the month three months prior to the publication date. The magazine is published September through May.

General editorial duties include:

• Seeking out, reporting, and writing on Law Student Division news for the magazine's Division Dialogue section-and filing articles on deadline as established by the staff editor
• Assigning articles to student writers as deemed appropriate by the student editor and staff editor, and ensuring their timely filing and editing
• Alerting law student section liaisons to requirement to write liaison notes, following-up on these requests, and editing articles
• With the Ops and Pubs committee, reviewing via e-mail all magazine copy (feature pages and Division Dialogue) prior to publication and alerting staff editor to any oversights or potential problems
• Informally consulting with staff editor on various issues involving the magazine, including editorial content
• Assisting in judging of the Law Student Division's law school newspaper contest
• Carrying out other minor assignments to assist the staff editor