The Best Brief Competition is an annual event that recognizes outstanding legal writing by first-year students. The Legal Analysis, Advocacy, and Writing faculty selected the best trial briefs from among those written by their spring semester students. This summer, a panel of Wisconsin attorneys evaluated the semi-finalists' briefs to determine the finalists.

The finalists in this year's Best Brief Competition are William Aldana, Marin Ellington, John Karteczka, Yujin Ko, and Tiana Sullivan.

A panel of Law School faculty will now evaluate the finalists' briefs to determine the winner. The winner will be announced in September 2026.

Congratulations to the Best Brief finalists!

View past winners of the Best Brief Competition »

Submitted by Law School News on August 7, 2026

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