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"Indiana Law Review" Blog Announces Winner of First Writing Competition
01/30/2015
IU McKinney 2L Burnell Grimes has been named the winner of the Indiana Law Review inaugural blog writing competition.
Grimes’ blog entry, titled “The Best of Both Worlds: A Solution to Indiana’s Appointment of Counsel Funding Problem,” has now been published on the ILR blog. Grimes received a $100 Amazon gift card for his winning entry, in addition to its publication on the blog.
Grimes said he was talking with a law school friend about providing legal services to those least able to pay for them when a solution began to take shape. He turned those thoughts into his winning blog entry.
“We were both talking about the barriers to legal services and the funding shortage,” Grimes said. “That started me thinking about solutions.”
“The Indiana Law Review is proud to publish Grimes’ blog article about improving Indiana’s legal aid and pro bono programs,” said editor-in-chief Reid Dodge. “Of all the competition submissions, his stood out as both substantive and relevant to Indiana legal practitioners, which is exactly the type of article we initially envisioned when we created the blog at the beginning of the Fall 2014 semester.”
The ILR began the blog with the intent of generating an online following, and has so far been successful.
“It’s been very well received by practitioners,” blog editing committee chair Chris Mueller.
(In the photo from left are Reid Dodge, Chris Mueller, Burnell Grimes, Daniel Spungen, and Anna Rutigliano.)
