Student Essay Contest: Win $5,000 and a Trip to New Orleans

The American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Lawyers’ Professional Liability has announced its annual Bert W. Levit Essay Contest for Law Students and Young Lawyers. The essay contest is based on a hypothetical involving questions about a law firm’s potential malpractice exposure when it relied upon a third-party vendor to provide document review services for a client, which ultimately resulted in the release of privileged documents. The winner will receive a cash prize of $5,000 and a free trip to the Spring 2013 National Legal Malpractice Conference in New Orleans in April 2013. The submission deadline is February 22, 2013. More details here.