Second-year law student Emily E. Gold has been named winner of the UW Law School=s Legal Research & Writing Program's Best Brief Award for 2007, after a selection process that included review of the submitted briefs by leading Wisconsin practitioners and UW law professors. Gold=s work, on the topic of an employment discrimination suit, was selected as the most accomplished of more than 20 submitted briefs.

The Legal Writing faculty also congratulated this year’s five finalists: David Gold, Brian Jenks, Katherine Krzys, Anwar Ragep, and Peter Rindal.

The process leading to selection of the Best Brief Award winner and finalists includes three separate evaluation stages.  The instructor of each Legal Research and Writing section selects the best brief written in that section; these briefs are then reviewed and ranked by a number of lawyers and judges in the community; the top-ranking briefs are judged by a group of UW law professors. The briefs are presented anonymously to individuals doing the ranking.

At a ceremony on April 15, 2008, when a commemorative plaque was presented by UW Law School Dean Ken Davis to Emily Gold, Legal Research & Writing Director Susan Steingass noted that Gold's two legal writing instructors also deserve recognition for helping Gold to develop this work: Margaret Baumgartner (fall semester) and Deb Moritz (spring semester).

Emily Gold, who graduated from Pomona College in California with a B.A. degree in mathematics, worked for a few years in Boston, and calls Minneapolis home, will be working in New York City in Summer 2008 with the firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.

Submitted by on April 21, 2008

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