The elaborate award ceremonies and dinner, themed “Legends of the Law," drew more than 400 guests including judges, law school deans, managing partners in the nation’s largest law firms, professors and other members of the legal community. Ms. Siverts won for her article published in the Thomas Jefferson Law Review.

Jennifer Siverts with Dean Rudy Hasl in the Great Hall of the
Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., site of the
2006 Burton Awards for Legal Achievement.

Jennifer Siverts walks to the podium and is presented with the Burton award, an inscribed crystal obelisk to commemorate her status as one of the top law student writers in the nation.

Prior to her trip to Washington, Ms. Siverts was honored at Thomas Jefferson during an awards celebration.

The Burton Awards Program is in its seventh year, founded in 1999 as a volunteer, not-for-profit academic organization dedicated to rewarding effective legal writing and hailed as one of the premier awards programs in law. The program, run in association with the Library of Congress and its law library, honors law students as well as partners in law firms who use “plain, clear and concise language in their legal writings and avoid archaic, stilted legalese.”

Congratulations once again to Jennifer!

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