Burton Awards for Legal Achievement
- Burton Awards for Legal Achievement
Infobox award
name = Burton Award
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description = Outstanding contributions from partners in law firms and law school students in legal writing
presenter = Burton Foundation, Library of Congress & LexisNexis
country = USA
year = 1999
website = http://www.burtonawards.com/
The Burton Awards program, now in its ninth year, is a non-profit effort run in association with the Library of Congress. The program recognizes major accomplishments in law, and is principally devoted to legal writing and research. Each year since 1999, 30 writing awards have been presented to partners in America's 1,000 largest law firms, ten awards given to Association of Legal Administrators members in special categories, and 15 writing awards presented to law school students.
Namesake
The award is named after William C. Burton, a member of the New York and Florida bars and a partner in the international law firm of D'Amato & Lynch. Burton is a former New York State Assistant Attorney General and author of the authoritative reference, Burton's Legal Thesaurus, published by McGraw Hill. Mr. Burton is the author of several articles published in the New York State Bar Association Journal. In 2003 he also co-founded the Holmes Debates which is a program to address major issues facing the nation and the judiciary. [cite web |url=http://www.burtonawards.com/about.html |title=About the program |accessdate=2008-06-12 |last= |first= |coauthors= |date= |work= |publisher=Burton Awards]
External links
[http://www.burtonawards.com/archive.html List of past winners]
References
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