m Third-year University of Arkansas School of Law student Jace Motley of Conway has been selected as one of 35 students from across the country to participate in the Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law s Judicial Clerkship Opinion Writing Conference to be held Feb. 23-25 in Washington, D.C. Participants will receive opinion writing instruction from some of the nation s most distinguished members of the judiciary. They will be guided through writing an appellate court opinion and will receive individual review and commentary on their work by the conference faculty, all judges or former judicial clerks themselves. U.S. District Court Judge Lee Rudofsky of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas is a member of the 2023 conference faculty. Motley will begin a two-year clerkship with the Chief U.S. District Judge D. Price Marshall Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas in August.