Class Action Reports, Inc. selects University of California, Hastings College of the Law graduate, Phil W. Su as winner of the 2005 Beverly C. Moore, Jr. Memorial Student Writing Competition. Mr. Su's article, 'Classwide Arbitration in California: Oxymoron or Innovation?' won the first annual student writing competition honoring the former publisher and editor of Class Action Reports.
Washington, DC, August 22, 2005 Class Action Reports, Inc. (ISSN 0746-7168), a leading publisher of print and electronic class action news and analyses, announces Phil W. Su as the first winner of the annual Beverly C. Moore, Jr. Memorial Student Writing Competition.
His article, "Classwide Arbitration in California: Oxymoron or Innovation?" is a timely examination of how prior case law and the historical treatment of class actions and arbitration may affect the California Supreme Court decision in Discover Bank v. Boehr. Mr. Su's winning composition is featured in Volume 26, No. 4 (July-August 2005) of Class Action Reports.
Mr. Su is a 2002 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, with a B.A. in Rhetoric and a minor in Public Policy. He earned his J.D., in May 2005, from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. There, Mr. Su completed a Civil Litigation concentration and was a Staff Editor and an Articles Editor for the Hastings Business Law Journal. While in law school, Mr. Su externed for Justice Joyce Kennard of the California Supreme Court and clerked with the Employment, Regulation, and Administration Section of the California Attorney General's Office. In his final semester of legal study, Mr. Su participated in a class action seminar taught by California Superior Court Judge A. James Robertson II. It was in this class that Mr. Su was introduced to complex litigation and arbitration, topics that later became the basis of his winning essay. After passing the California Bar, Mr. Su plans to join a law firm in the San Francisco/Bay Area where he will practice civil litigation with a focus on mass tort or employment law.
"We are pleased to publish Mr. Su's class action article in our legal journal. His entry was chosen for its thoroughness and depth of topic, originality and clear writing style," states Jennifer Schwartz, Class Action Reports Assistant Editor and Competition Coordinator. "We, at Class Action Reports, Inc., congratulate Mr. Su and thank all of the law students who submitted essays for the competition."
The Beverly C. Moore, Jr. Memorial Student Writing Competition was established in 2005 to honor the life work of Beverly Moore, Editor of Class Action Reports from 1974 to 2003. Mr. Moore, a graduate of Harvard Law School, was a thought-provoking writer, speaker, and teacher. Under his guidance, Class Action Reports expanded to include class action decisions in all substantive areas of the law and became the country's most authoritative review of class action law and legislation. Mr. Moore not only edited and published Class Action Reports; he gave generously of his time, knowledge and expertise to attorneys, legal scholars and students across the U.S. and abroad. Mr. Moore was instrumental in the creation of proposed class action laws in Canada and in 2003 he traveled to Thailand, at the request of the American Bar Association and the Thai government, to participate in discussions concerning class action developments in Thailand.
The Beverly C. Moore, Jr. Memorial Student Writing Competition seeks to encourage and reward law students who write on legal subjects within the scope of class action law and is open to all students enrolled in a J.D. or LL.M. program. The guidelines for the 2006 Competition will be announced in the fall of 2005.
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For 33 years Class Action Reports, Inc. has published the most comprehensive, authoritative class action legal journal in the United States. Bi-monthly issues of Class Action Reports in print include articles and commentaries by staff writers, Editorial Board members and other distinguished guest authors as well as analyses of recent class action decisions in the areas of securities, antitrust, consumer litigation, civil and political rights, mass torts, labor/employment and more. Class Action Reports online provides a comprehensive database of case decisions, articles, commentaries, surveys and statistics. Enhanced online subscriber services provide special content not found in the print journal. In fall 2005, the online service will expand its Web-based offerings to include individual PDF document purchases. In addition to the resources available in print and online, Editor-in-Chief, Stuart J. Logan, and his staff offer Class Action Reports consulting. U.S. and international legal professionals, corporate counsel, law schools and courts rely on Class Action Reports in print and Class Action Reports online to provide fair, informative, and full analyses of class action decisions and special topics.