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The College’s mission statement is: "Fostering excellence in the practice of
employee benefits law and advancing public understanding of employee benefits."
The College encourages the study and development of employee benefits laws and
its projects include initiating professional discussions and high level
symposiums regarding significant employee benefits issues, working with the IRS
on training programs for IRS agents, co-sponsoring continuing legal education
programs, and recognizing the achievements of distinguished employee benefits
attorneys.
For these
reasons, the College sponsors
an annual writing competition to encourage legal scholarship by law students in
this evolving area of law and is open to all law students nationally.
The American
College of Employee Benefits Counsel has selected the winners of its First
Annual Employee Benefits Writing Competition, open to all law students
nationally. The College is proud to announce that Amanda Walls from The
University of Akron School of Law is the winner of the Sidney M. Perlstadt
Memorial Award and Jamie Lund from the University of Chicago Law School is the
winner of the Clarin M. Schwartz Memorial Award. Each award winner receives a
prize of $1500.00 and will be given a copy of the Employee Benefits Law
treatise published by the Bureau of National Affairs (BNA). The winners will be
honored at the College’s annual dinner in Chicago on August 6. Their articles
will also be submitted to national journals for publication review.
The winning
articles by Ms. Lund and Ms. Walls were selected based on, among other factors:
(i) depth and creativity of legal analysis; (ii) thoroughness of legal research;
(iii) organization and writing style; (iv) difficulty of subject matter; and (v)
consideration of labor, tax or other employee benefits policy implications.
"The College
congratulates both Jamie Lund and Amanda Walls on their winning the 2005 ACEBC
Writing Competition. To have been chosen for these awards is a testament to
their excellence out of a field of outstanding submissions," said Susan P.
Serota, President of the College and a partner of the firm Pillsbury Winthrop
Shaw Pittman LLP in New York City.
2008 Employee Benfits Writing Competition Rules
View Press Release of the 2007 Writing Competition Winner
View Press Release of the 2006 Writing Competition Winners
View Press Release of the 2005 Writing Competition Winners
View 2007 Winning Paper
View 2006 Winning Papers
View 2005 Winning Paper
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