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	Coif News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Establishment of a chapter of the Order of the Coif is an important milestone for Cardozo.
		Apparently it was the influence of John Henry Wigmore, author of the famous treatise on evidence, an enthusiastic Anglophile, and dean at Northwestern, that led to the adoption of "Order of the Coif" as the name for the new honorary society.
		In the words of the Order's former secretary-treasurer, "Creation of new chapters is a demanding procedure designed to ensure that member law schools offer a distinctly superior quality of education."[Note 3] The whole process took almost two years and included a lengthy application and an on-site inspection.
	www.cardozo.yu.edu /newsfp/coif.html (1105 words)

	Order of the Coif
		The English Order of the Coif was the most ancient and one of the most honored institutions of the common law.
		The American Order of the Coif is the outgrowth of an earlier society known as Theta Kappa Nu, founded in 1902 for the purpose of promoting scholarship among American law students.
		In 1912 the society was reorganized as the Order of the Coif "to foster a spirit of careful study and to mark in a fitting manner those who have attained a high grade of scholarship." Students in the top 10% of their graduating class are eligible for membership.
	registrar.wlu.edu /honors/coif.htm (238 words)

	Law Offices of David J. Harter - History of the Order of the Coif. An honorary scholastic society which recognizes ...
		The Order of the Coif is a honorary scholastic society which recognizes outstanding academic achievement.
		The purpose of the Order is to encourage excellence in legal education by fostering a spirit of careful study, recognizing those who as law students attained a high grade of scholarship, and honoring those who as lawyers, judges and teachers attained high distinction for their scholarly or professional accomplishments.
		Feeling bound to obey the mandate, their lordships "ordered it to be recorded, and proceeded to call upon the other gentlemen of the bar to move." (In the Matter of the Serjeants at Law [1839] 6 Bing.)[N.C.] 187.
	www.djh-law.com /coif.htm (1523 words)

	Order of the Coif - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Order of the Coif is an honor society for United States law school graduates.
		According to the Order's constitution, "[t]he purpose of The Order is to encourage excellence in legal education by fostering a spirit of careful study, recognizing those who as law students attained a high grade of scholarship, and honoring those who as lawyers, judges and teachers attained high distinction for their scholarly or professional accomplishments."
		When a student becomes a member of the Order of the Coif, he or she receives a Certificate of membership, a Badge of membership for wear during academic ceremonies, a Coif key, and in some cases an actual coif or representation of the same.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Order_of_the_Coif (618 words)

	Vinson & Elkins LLP, law firm in Houston, Ft. Bend, Harris & Montgomery Cos., Texas, U.S.A.
		Order of the Barons; Order of the Coif; Phi Delta Phi.
		Order of the Coif; Phi Delta Phi; Phi Kappa Phi.
		Phi Delta Phi; Order of Barristers; Order of the Lytae.
	www.lawyers.com /Texas/Houston/Vinson-and-Elkins-LLP-1685171-f.html (7641 words)

	COIF-history
		The white coif of the order was placed on the head of the serjeant-elect with the same solemnity as
		The origins of the Order of the Coif are largely lost in the mists of antiquity.
		The heyday of the English order was the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries.
	www.orderofthecoif.org /COIF-history.htm (1919 words)

	William and Mary School of Law Web Page
		The Order of the Coif is a national scholastic honor society in law.
		Membership in the Order of the Coif is the highest accolade a law student may achieve.
		The Order of Barristers is a national honor society that recognizes individuals who have contributed substantially in an oral argument program either in the administration of an advocacy program or in the development of advocacy skills through competition.
	www.wm.edu /law/prospective/studentlife/awards.shtml (1394 words)

	Chicago-Kent College of Law: The Record -- Special Notices
		The Order of the Coif is a national legal honor society whose purposes are to promote and recognize significant accomplishment in the study and advancement of the law.
		Chicago-Kent was admitted to the Order of the Coif in recognition of its strides in scholarship, teaching, and contributions to the community of American law schools.
		Each year, approximately ten percent of our students are inducted into the Order of the Coif based on their success in the study of law.
	www.kentlaw.edu /record/specialnotices/record_archives/19990315.html (228 words)

	Coif Comes to Cardozo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		As for the "coif" itself,[Note 1] that was a round piece of white cloth, a sort of a doily, that medieval English serjeants-at-law wore atop their wig.
		Apparently it was the influence of John Henry Wigmore, author of the famous treatise on evidence, an enthusi ca1 astic Anglophile, and dean at Northwestern, that led to the adoption of "Order of the Coif" as the name for the new honorary society.
		This spring, there will be a ceremony at the Law School to initiate into the Order of the Coif those members of the classes of 1997 and 1998 who finished in the top 10 percent.
	www.cardozo.yu.edu /life/spring1999/coif (1127 words)

	Order of the Coif
		The Order of the Coif is a national honor society for law school graduates who attended member schools.
		Students who have obtained a substantial number of ungraded credits (through journal work, moot court participation, and the like) and who aspire to Coif membership should pay careful attention to the number of graded units they will have at the completion of their studies.
		Transfer students who come to Boalt at the start of their second year are eligible for Coif membership based exclusively on their graded courses at Boalt.
	www.law.berkeley.edu /students/registrar/ordercoif.html (434 words)

	Miller, Griffin & Marks, P.S.C. \| Lexington, KY
		Tom was also elected to the Order of the Coif, and served on the Kentucky Law Journal.
		David was an Associate Editor of the Kentucky Law Journal and was elected to Order of the Coif.
		Elizabeth C. Woodford graduated with high distinction in 1999 from the UK College of Law, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif and served as an Associate Editor for the Kentucky Law Journal.
	www.horselaw.com /index.php?b=attorney_roster (1426 words)

	Duke University School of Law : Order of the Coif (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Duke University School of Law : Order of the Coif
		The Order of the Coif is a national legal scholarship society with a local chapter at Duke University School of Law.
		Its purposes are "to foster a spirit of careful study and to mark in a fitting manner those who have attained a high grade of scholarship." Election is restricted to students ranking scholastically in the highest 10 percent of the graduating class.
	www.law.duke.edu /student/act/coif.html (73 words)

	990412Nsias.HTML
		Those elements are some of the criteria measured when law schools apply for a chapter of the Order of the Coif.
		The Order of the Coif is the highest academic honor bestowed upon a law school graduate.
		"The Order of the Coif is to law schools what Phi Beta Kappa is to undergraduate schools," Dean Samuel M. Davis said.
	www.olemiss.edu /news/dm/archives/99/9904/990412/990412Nsias.HTML (429 words)

	UWLS Students
		The Order of the Coif is a national honorary legal society that encourages scholarship and the advancement of the ethical standards of the legal profession.
		Article IV of The Order of the Coif Constitution stipulates that students must have completed at least 75% of the total credits needed to graduate in graded courses.
		Transfer students who enter the University of Washington School of Law at the start of their second year are eligible for Coif membership based exclusively on their graded courses at the University of Washington.
	www.law.washington.edu /Students/Academics/Awards.html (677 words)

	Law School Rules - Appendix D
		Election to the Order of the Coif is based upon a student's final grade point average.
		However, the National Executive Committee has interpreted the Coif Constitution to require that, to be eligible, students must have at least 75% of their work in graded courses.
		In order to be eligible, 75% of the students work at the University of Wisconsin Law School must be graded.
	www.law.wisc.edu /students/rules/appendix_d.htm (269 words)

	Top Law Schools (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Often the schools are not named, but when the list is specified it largely overlaps the baker's dozen that sat at the top of median LSAT scores for admitted students throughout the 1990s: Yale, Harvard, Chicago, Duke, Columbia, NYU, Stanford, Michigan, Georgetown, Berkeley, Penn, Cornell, and UCLA.
		All but Yale, Harvard, and Columbia designate the top tenth of their graduates by membership in the Order of the Coif.
		Absent that designation of their top tenth students, a rough comparison of gender proportions in high academic performance at Harvard and Columbia may be made instead by means of prizes and scholar awards.
	darwin.baruch.cuny.edu /faculty/guyot/toplawschools.html (268 words)

	Capital University Law School
		J.D., cum laude, Order of the Curia, Order of the Barristers, Capital University, 1976.
		J.D., Order of the Coif, University of Virginia, 1977.
		J.D., magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, University of Michigan, 1973.
	www.law.capital.edu /Faculty/Adjunct.asp (275 words)

	University of Colorado at Boulder Catalog \| 2004-05
		The Order of the Coif is a national law school honor society founded to encourage legal scholarship and to advance the ethical standards of the profession.
		The University of Colorado is one of only 76 law schools entitled to award the Order of the Coif.
		Members are selected for demonstrated scholarship from among seniors ranking scholastically in the top 10 percent of their class.
	www.colorado.edu /catalog/catalog04-05/cs.html?s=8-2-1 (82 words)

	Order of the Coif
		Selection to the Order of the Coif reflects the demonstration of outstanding effort and ability throughout a law school career.
		Selection is based on National Order of the Coif rules.
		Each Chapter may elect to membership a number of the persons not to exceed the highest 10% scholastically of the entire group of law graduates from July 1 of each year through June 30 of the following year.
	www.bedelllawfirm.com /CM/PopUpPages/PopUpPages16.asp (68 words)

	DePaul University College of Law
		However, for purposes of determining honors awards at graduation, the student's prior grades at any other law school are factored in with the DePaul grades to compute the final GPA for honors awards.
		JD graduates who rank in the top 10% of the pool all of students who graduate in July, December and May of an academic year may be elected by the faculty to the Order of the Coif.
		The rules that apply for honors awards for transfer students also apply to Order of the Coif.
	www.law.depaul.edu /students/general_information/order_coif.asp (301 words)

	The University of Alabama School of Law
		While in law school, she was elected to Order of the Coif.
		She was inducted into the Order of the Coif and the Order of Barristers.
		Grizzle was also a Hugo L. Black Scholar and honored as a member of the Order of the Coif and the Order of Barristers.
	www.law.ua.edu /careers/info.php?re=alumnibankinfo (6757 words)

	University of Miami School of Law: Office of the Registrar
		Class rank and honors (including Order of the Coif) will be determined by the cumulative grade-point average.
		Students who graduate in the top 10% of the class (Fall, Spring and Summer graduating classes combined) and who meet other requirements of the order may be elected in the prestigious Order of the Coif.
		Full-time students who complete 9 or more graded credits will be awarded a Dean’s List certificate for any semester in which their grade-point average for the semester’s work is in the top 20% of their class.
	www.law.miami.edu /registrar/honors_awards.html (527 words)

	PRESS RELEASE O'Melveny & Myers Announces 2006 Partnership Class (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Chris received his law degree from the University of Virginia in 1998, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif.
		Brophy received his law degree in 1997 from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif.
		Jessica received her law degree magna cum laude in 1996 from Georgetown University, where she was a member of the Order of the Coif and the recipient of the Georgetown Metropolitan Club Award for Academic Excellence.
	www.marketwire.com /mw/release_html_b1?release_id=103765 (1565 words)

	Grades, Ranking & Writing Requirements - UofM Law School
		While acknowledging the competitive environment inherent in a group of high achievers, the Law School faculty imposes a standard distribution for grades in order to prevent grade inflation.
		Class Rank: Class ranks are computed but not revealed to students or others except (1) for qualification for Order of the Coif, although ranking is not disclosed to students, and (2) for the limited purpose of application for judicial clerkships or academic teaching positions.
		Order of the Coif: The Law School sponsors a chapter of Order of the Coif, a national honorary society for law students.
	www.law.umn.edu /cso/gradingwriting.html (627 words)

	Fehseke & Eschman Law Offices: Iowa Attorneys, Estate Planning, Real Estate, Workers Compensation
		He was Phi Beta Kappa, a member of the Order of the Coif, and Editor-in-Chief of the Iowa Law Review, a nationally-recognized law school publication analyzing legal issues and current developments in the law.
		Elaine was a member of the Order of the Coif and the Traynor Honor Society at McGeorge.
		She is licensed to practice law in Iowa and California and is a member of Lee County, Iowa State, California State, and American Bar Associations; the Iowa Trial Lawyers Association; Iowa's District 8B Judicial Nominating Committee; and on the Iowa Supreme Court Grievance Commission.
	www.fehsekelaw.com /profiles.html (469 words)

	Yale Law School \| Prof. Jerry Mashaw receives Order of the Coif Award
		Jerry L. Mashaw, Sterling Professor of Law at YLS, was presented with the Order of the Coif Book Award, which recognizes a book of the "highest order of legal scholarship" published during a three-year period, at the annual AALS meeting in January.
		This means that when he revisits a previous work, he's "often surprised by what I find in it." It was the same with Greed, Chaos, and Governance.
		And the Order of the Coif Award, when he was notified of it, seemed to come "out of the blue.
	www.law.yale.edu /news/3337.htm (742 words)

	Gunther wins award from Order of Coif: 1/99
		Gerald Gunther, the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, emeritus, has been chosen to receive the 12th Triennial Book Award of the Order of the Coif, the nation's highest accolade for scholarly work in law.
		Gunther was presented the award by Dean Mary Doyle of the University of Miami, president of the Order of the Coif, during the annual luncheon of the Association of American Law Schools in New Orleans Jan. 8.
		The Order of the Coif, which sponsors the Triennial Award, is the national scholastic honor society for law.
	news-service.stanford.edu /news/1999/january13/gunther113.html (259 words)

	Attorney Carrie Dunn, Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP, Cleveland, Ohio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		While attending law school at the University of Pittsburgh she was a member of the Law Review and Moot Court where she participated in the National Moot Court Competition as well as the Sutherland Moot Court Competition.
		A magna cum laude law graduate, she graduated Order of the Coif and Order of the Barristers.
		J.D., 2003, Magna Cum Laude; Order of the Coif, Order of Barristers
	www.vorys.com /Bio/CarrieDunn.asp (136 words)

	WVU College of Law Order of the Barristers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		WVU College of Law Order of the Barristers
		The Order of Barristers is a national honorary organization whose purpose is the encouragement of oral advocacy and the development of brief writing skills through effective law school appellate moot court and mock trial programs.
		Its recipients are chosen annually from the graduating class by a faculty committee.
	www.wvu.edu /~law/academic/Order_of_Barristers.htm (65 words)

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