Recent Santa Clara University School of Law graduate Sara Townsend focused her education on intellectual property law. While in school, Sara Townsend served as the managing editor of the Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal and won the Witkin Award for Academic Excellence in Remedies in 2015.
Awarded by the Witkin Legal Institute at Thomson Reuters, the Witkin Award for Academic Excellence award program is available only to accredited law schools in California that have agreed to participate in the program. Participating schools must have not only received accreditation from either the State Bar of California or the ABA, but also a designated award administrator.
At the end of each semester or term, the award administrator submits the names of students who received the highest grade in a qualifying course. These courses include civil procedure, ethics, family law, bankruptcy, and remedies. When two students tie for the highest grade, award administrators must examine attendance and class performance, along with overall grade point average, to determine a single winner. Meanwhile, individual students who receive the highest grade in multiple qualifying courses can receive more than one Witkin Award.
Once winners are selected, administrators submit the list with each student’s full name and the title of the course for which he or she earned the award. Certificates are then mailed to the school with each student’s name and course and distributed to students as each academic institution sees fit.
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