Linda Berger is the Family Foundation Professor of Law at the University of Nevada-Law Vegas William S. Boyd School of Law. The ALWD Board created the Linda Berger Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Legal Writing Scholarship to focus on those individuals that have written influential articles, books, or essays, and otherwise had a major impact on scholarship, perhaps through making presentations, mentoring, serving on editorial boards of various publications, and sponsoring scholarship workshops and fora. This award is given every two years at ALWD’s Biennial Conference.

Our inaugural recipient Professor Berger’s prolific work established legal writing within the legal academy as a true discipline with a doctrinal foundation on which to build its own body of scholarly literature.

She has been generous in her efforts to support other scholars in the field, leading presentations, and workshops about legal writing scholarship, and helping new scholars find their voice.

She spearheaded the creation of ALWD’s peer-reviewed journal: the Journal of the Association of Legal Writing Directors, now known as Legal Communication & Rhetoric: JALWD.

ALWD is honored to present the 2017 Linda Berger Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Legal Writing Scholarship to its namesake, Professor Linda Berger.