The American Bar Association's Law Student Division announced the winners of its 1996/97 awards contests during the division's Annual Meeting in early August.Lawyer and noted book author Jay Foonberg received the division's Platinum Key Award, the highest award conferred by the division, for his service to the division. He is the author of the American Bar Association's best-selling How to Start and Build a Law Practice, which has sold approximately 50,000 copies since it was first published in 1984.
Immediate Past Secretary-Treasurer Randa Ismail, a recent graduate of Chicago-Kent College of Law, received a Gold Key Award for her exemplary service to the division.
A Silver Key Award was given to Fred Mundie Jr.,formerly national student director of the division's Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program.
Judy Weightman, a professor at the University of Hawaii William Richardson Law School, received the Dean Henry Ramsey Jr. Award for her work in helping to promote the full participation in the legal profession by minorities and women.
St. Mary's University School of Law in San Antonio, Texas, received the division's Public Interest Award.
Catholic University of America in Washington DC was named Student Bar Association (SBA) of the Year. Regional awards went to Villanova University School of Law in Villanova, Pa., which was named Northeast SBA of the Year; the University of Miami School of Law in Coral Gables, Fla., which was named Southeast SBA of the Year; the University of Toledo College of Law in Ohio, which was named Midwest SBA of the Year; and South Texas College of Law in Houston, which was named Western SBA of the Year.
The Law Student Division's Tenth Circuit was named outstanding circuit in the division's Membership Awards. Oklahoma City University School of Law was named outstanding school. In the division's annual newspaper contest, Harvard Law School's Harvard Law Record took first place in the entire-newspaper category and Duquesne University School of Law's Juris took first place in the entire-magazine category.
Second-place winner in the entire-newspaper category was Pro Se, published by the University of Illinois College of Law. Third place went to Cornell University Law School's The Tower. In the entire-magazine category, The American Jurist, published by the American University Washington College of Law, placed second; and Widener University School of Law's Widener Law Forum took third place.
First place in the feature-writing category went to Motions, published by the University of San Diego School of Law; second place went to UCLA's The Docket; and third place went to Judicial Notice, published by the Columbus School of Law at Catholic University of America. In the humor category, an article in Georgetown Law Weekly, published by Georgetown University Law Center, took first place; Harvard's Law School's Harvard Law Record took second place; and the April Fool's edition of Cornell University Law School's The Tower took third place.
In the fifth and final category of the contest - editorial writing - New York University School of Law's The Commentator took first place. Second place went to The Amicus Curiae, published by the College of William and Mary Marshall-Wythe Law School; and third place went to Virginia Law Weekly, published by the University of Virginia School of Law.
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