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The deadline for this year's International Law and Technology Writing Competition sponsored by vLex has been extended to January 1, 2024. This competition seeks short, blog-style entries on one of the following topics: …

Want to enter a writing competition but don't have a lot of time? The vLex International Writing competition is a good one to participate in because submissions are short and informal--in blog style …

If you have written a paper related to legal history, or are writing a paper this semester, consider submitting it to the 12th annual Morris L. Cohen Student Essay Competition! The Legal History …

Have an idea that uses docket APIs to create a legal tech product or solve a problem? Docket and legal analytics innovator UniCourt is holding their first ever Legal Innovation contest. Entering is …

More than 120 people have clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer during his time at the Supreme Court, and many of them now among the ranks of elite appellate attorneys (Neal Katyal) and law …

The deadline to submit an entry for the International Law & Technology Writing Competition has been extended to December 31st! This writing competition is very accessible because it requires only a short, 1,000 …

Global legal research provider vLex has announced the topic for this year's International Law & Technology Writing Competition. Submissions are due December 1st, 2021. The competition is for current law students, JD and …

There is still time to submit an application for the open position of Legal Technology and Research Librarian at the BYU Howard W. Hunter Law Library. The deadline has been extended to Monday, …

Bloomberg Law created a five-episode series of podcasts on the experiences of African American lawyers in the United States and the current state of diversity & inclusion efforts. Bloomberg Law Executive Editor for …

January 4th, 2021 marks the 125th anniversary of Utah being admitted as a state to the United States of America. Utah took a complicated journey en route to statehood. Check out ProQuest Congressional …

Update: The deadline has been extended to December 7th, 2020. Submit your entry to the 2021 International Law & Technology Writing Competition for current law students by December 7, 2020. There is not …

Generally speaking, librarians are awesome, service-oriented professionals committed to providing library patrons with the resources they need. Silent Librarian, however, is not awesome. Silent Librarian is a phishing campaign that targets students and …

Recently retired D.C. Circuit judge, BYU alum and former BYU General Counsel Thomas B. Griffith published a piece yesterday in United States Law Week on the role religion should play in the work …

The BYU Law Library keeps previous versions of the Utah Code, so we've built up quite an extensive collection of historical Utah Codes. We have from 1855 to the present. We also have …

Attention BYU Law Grads! (and anyone who is a diploma privilege candidate in Utah!) You are allowed to do 36 hours of CLE to meet your 360 total hours. The BYU Law Library …

We are already in the middle of a historic week in which Supreme Court oral arguments are being broadcast live for the first time. Yesterday was also historic because it was the first …

Looking for some transactional law experience this summer? LawMeets, an M&A competition in which BYU Law students have participated in and performed well in the past, is putting on a virtual boot camp …