Law Center Newspaper Best in Nation – Again

The Law Center’s Law Weekly newspaper itself made news in November, when it won the American Bar Association’s Law Student Division “Best Newspaper” award for 2002, the second consecutive year in which it has taken that prize.
     The Law Weekly, published on Mondays during the academic year with a circulation of more than 1,500, took home the 2002 honor at the ABA’s annual convention in San Francisco last October. It won the 2001 award at the ABA’s Washington, D.C., convention a year before.
     The ABA looks at staffing levels, technology used, organization, length of existence, budget, and frequency of publication in making its “Best Newspaper” determination. The paper also won “Best Feature Article” for a story by Amina Rana (3L) on how more than 500 Law Center students signed onto an amicus curiae brief.
     “What pleases me most about this victory is how far we came as a team over the course of the semester,” said Jonathan Massimino (3L), the Law Weekly’s editor-in-chief.
     Said Dean Judy Areen, “It is vital to our sense of community here at the Law Center that we have a strong and lively press. We all take special pride in the Law Weekly’s two consecutive awards and salute them for this well-deserved recognition.”