Legal Writer is a 'Bulldog'

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — A third-year University of Arkansas law student, Coby Warren Logan of Fort Smith, Ark., was awarded the prestigious 2006 Arkansas Bar Foundation Writing Award for Best Legal Writing. His award-winning article, “Not Fair At All: The Class Action Fairness Act of 2005,” was published in The Arkansas Lawyer’s Winter 2006 edition.

“Coby Logan is one of the most diligent students I've taught,” said Professor Robert B. Leflar, who is currently teaching in Japan. “He's a bulldog - once he gets a topic in his teeth, he won't let go until he's finished it off. That's what it takes to be an excellent legal writer.”

Logan, who works as a law clerk at Daily & Woods PLLC in Fort Smith and the firm’s new office in Fayetteville, earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Central Arkansas in Conway. His wife is Meagan Canfield Logan of Fort Smith, and he has three children, Savannah, Alyxander and Aaron.

The Arkansas Bar Foundation will honor Logan at its annual membership meeting on June 7 in Hot Springs, Ark.

The Arkansas Bar Foundation annually presents two writing awards for articles published in the Arkansas Bar Association's quarterly magazine, The Arkansas Lawyer. A Writing Awards Committee of the Foundation evaluates the articles in the magazine. The award is given for the article of general interest receiving the highest evaluation, and an award is presented for the legal article receiving the highest evaluation.

During his three years at the University of Arkansas School of Law, Logan was articles editor for the University of Arkansas School of Law’s new Journal of Food Law and Policy, a member of the student-run Board of Advocates, a Dean’s List honoree and the holder of several student leadership positions within the American Bar Association. He has won numerous writing awards, including first place in the American Bar Association Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section’s 2005 Annual Law Student Writing Competition and the 2005 Arent Fox/Dale Bumpers Excellence in Writing Award. In addition to being published in the Arkansas Lawyer, as a law student, Logan has also been published in the American Bar Association’s Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Law Journal, the ATLA Docket, and the University of Arkansas School of Law’s new Journal of Food Law & Policy.

Logan will graduate on May 20 with his Juris Doctor. He has accepted an associate attorney position with Daily & Woods to begin following the Arkansas Bar Exam in July.