Scalia honored by Scribes

We wrapped up our three-day visit to New York City today at the Scribes 2008 Annual Luncheon.

West was a sponsor of the event honoring excellence in legal writing at the Harvard Club of New York City. This year’s awards program drew additional interest because Scribes recognized United States Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia with its Lifetime-Achievement Award.

Bryan Garner, Scalia’s co-author on their West book “Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges,” presented Scalia with the award.

Here are some of their remarks:

Scribes is a professional association whose main goals are to honor legal writers and improve legal writing. Its members are judges, lawyers, law professors and legal editors. It is the oldest and most prestigious organizations of its kind.

Scribes publishes The Scribes Journal of Legal Writing, The Scrivener newsletter and sponsors the Book Award, the Law-Review Award and the Brief-Writing Award.

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Special night on Ellis Island

Ellis Island’s history came alive last night for the Liberty Achievement Award ceremony from the ABA’s Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section (TIPS). As we mentioned in a previous post, West is proud to sponsor the award.

The inaugural Liberty Awards were handed out to Judge Bernice Donald, U.S. District Court, Tennessee; and Catherine Christian, president of the New York County Bar Association, for their contributions and commitment to diversity and the law.

We have some photos of the evening on our Flickr page. We also put together this highlight video of the evening, featuring comments from the winners and from Peter Bennett, chair of TIPS:

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Wall Street Journal’s Dan Slater

We ran into Dan Slater, legal reporter and blogger for The Wall Street Journal, after he moderated a discussion here at the ABA’s 2008 Annual Meeting in New York City. We asked him about the Law Blog he contributes to and the rise in blogs at the Journal, in general:

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West booth at ABA Annual Meeting

The West booth in the ABA Annual Meeting exhibit hall in the New York Hilton has a coffee shop theme.

We asked Bob Grabowski, national book sales manager, about it:

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