Professor Eugene Volokh has posted several valuable tips on the Volokh Conspiracy about how to succeed during the law-review write-on process.  If you haven’t read some of his longer works on academic legal writing, I highly recommend the following:

• Eugene Volokh, Writing a Student Article, 48 J. Legal Educ. 247 (1998) (available on HeinOnline to SCU students and faculty).
• Eugene Volokh, Test Suites: A Tool for Improving Student Articles, 52 J. Legal Educ. 440 (2002).
• EUGENE VOLOKH, ACADEMIC LEGAL WRITING: LAW REVIEW ARTICLES, STUDENT NOTES, SEMINAR PAPERS, AND GETTING ON LAW REVIEW (2005) (available at Heafey).