Deadline : June 1, 2010
Purpose : This competition was created by ACTEC’s Legal Education Committee, which consists of law school professors who teach in the area of trusts and estates and practitioners who teach as adjuncts in the trusts and estates field. The competition honors the late Mary Moers Wenig, a member of ACTEC’s Legal Education Committee, who was a law school professor for over 30 years.
Consistent with ACTEC’s purposes, the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel Mary Moers Wenig Student Writing Competition was created to encourage and reward scholarly works in the area of trusts and estates. ACTEC’s purposes are to maintain an association of lawyers, international in scope, skilled and experienced in the preparation of wills and trusts; estate planning; probate procedure and administration of trusts and estates of decedents, minors and incompetents; to improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and professional responsibility, to bring together qualified lawyers whose character and ability will contribute to the achievement of the purposes of the College; and to cooperate with bar associations and other organizations with similar purposes.
Eligibility : This competition is open to any law student in good standing (full-time or part-time) who is currently enrolled as a J.D. or LL.M. candidate in an ABA-accredited law school within the United States or its possessions.
Subjects : The paper must relate to the area of trusts and estates, broadly defined to include:
* Business Planning
* Charitable Planning
* Elder Law
* Employee Benefits
* Fiduciary Administration
* Fiduciary Income Taxation
* Fiduciary Litigation
* Estate Planning and Drafting
* Professional Responsibility
* Substantive Laws for the Gratuitous Transmission of Property
* Wealth Transfer Taxation (Estate, Gift and GST Tax)
Prizes :
* 1st Prize: $5,000 and publication in the ACTEC Journal
* 2d Prize: $3,000 and online publication on ACTEC’s website
* 3d Prize: $1,000 and online publication on ACTEC’s website
Deadline : June 1, 2010
For more information :
* Prior Winners
* Official Rules
* Entry Form (Single Author)
* Entry Form (Joint Submission)
The Legal Education Committee of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC) is sponsoring the 2010 Law Student Writing Competition
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