I suppose that Wings & Vodka put it best regarding writing on to law review.
I’ve been told several times that I’m pretty lucky. Even though my school is low-rated (but is getting better, honestly), we’ve got three law reviews on-campus. While they offer membership to the top 10% of the 1L class, and have a write-on competition for the rest of us, there’s apparently no limit as to how many people can be on law review: the “competition” is more of an exam.
Lucky isn’t quite the word for it. This morning, we turned in our memo of points and authorities for our legal research and writing class. Coincidentally, this is the weekend for the write-on contest. The two are substantially similar, involving search & seizure and supression of evidence. It’s actually annoying that this is closed-library (we can cite only the cases we’ve been given) – I’d love to do research on this.
Part of the exam is proofreading a short article. The worst part of that is going to be keeping my head from exploding while reading it. I really cannot stand crappy writing.
Now, if I can just get through the bluebooking exercise…