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Legal Writing Prof Blog

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Scholarship alert part II: Research in the wild: CALR and the role of informal apprenticeship in attorney training

Posted on June 13, 2009
This one is by Judith Lihosit, Instruction and Outreach Reference Librarian, University of San Diego Pardee Legal Research Center, and can be found at 101 Law Lib. J. 157 (2009). From the abstract: Much recent scholarship has posited that computer-assisted...

Scholarship alert: The Yale Journal of Law and Feminism twenty years ago: reflections from our founding members

Posted on June 13, 2009
Co-authored by Sara Ricks and found at 20 Yale J.L. & Feminism 247 (2009). From the abstract: What stands out most in my mind was just how easy it was to start the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism (YJLF)...

Illinois Lawyer Now

Posted on June 13, 2009
The Illinois State Bar Association's online news delivery system is now up and running. Please click here to to view the first postings. Illinois Lawyer Now also can be accessed from the ISBA home page under the "ISBA News" column....

it's got legs

Posted on June 13, 2009
Ben Opipari is writing a blog called Literary Legs, in which he combines his love for running and and his love for writing. If you don't run, you can skip those parts of course and still get good ideas from...

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new directors at WVU

Posted on June 12, 2009
Grace Wigal, long-time legal writing director at West Virginia University, is leaving that job to become the new academic support director there. Meanwhile Hollee Temple, long-time legal writing professor at West Virginia University, will be the new legal writing director...

outsourcing LRW

Posted on June 12, 2009
Professor Laurel Oates has posted updates about U.S. law firms outsourcing overseas many core legal research and writing functions. This trend goes far beyond document review, all the way to the basic legal research and document drafting taught in 1L...

Law profs sue West Publishing for falsely attributing their names to poorly researched treatise

Posted on June 11, 2009
Here's the skinny courtesy of Law.com: In the suit, professors David Rudovsky of the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Leonard Sosnov of Widener Law School claim that they did none of the work on the December 2008 supplement, or...

Reform badly needed for evaluating public school teachers

Posted on June 11, 2009
Here's a pretty scathing indictment of the manner in which public school teachers are evaluated courtesy of today's New York Times Op-Ed page. Read it and see if you agree. I am the scholarship dude. (jbl)

The effect of the vanishing trial on legal education

Posted on June 11, 2009
A civil trial may become as elusive and rare as the Yeti according to this symposium scheduled for July 31 at DePaul. It will be an exclusive affair - only law schools deans have been invited to attend this all...

The future of lawyer outsourcing and its impact on the American job market

Posted on June 11, 2009
Here's an interesting interview with a leading outsourcing firm in India courtesy of Above the Law. In the interview, the director of Mannthan Legal, Gururaj Potnis, discusses what he believes is a "tectonic shift . . . taking place in...

Don't close the paper mills yet - more problems with E-textbooks

Posted on June 11, 2009
Following up on our story from a few days ago, the Chronicle of Higher Education is reporting on more problems integrating E-textbooks into the undergraduate curriculum. Last year [Northwest Missouri State University] tech-happy president, Dean L. Hubbard, bought a Kindle,...

Should the bar exam test legal research skills?

Posted on June 11, 2009
That's the question our good buddy and master law librarian Joe Hodnicki is asking over at the Law Librarian Blog. As Joe says: The National Conference of Bar Examiners and many others have been skeptical that legal research can be...

the other side

Posted on June 11, 2009
Spurred on by a recent legal writing professors' listserve discussion, Lisa McElroy and Chris Coughlin have written an article on the cognitive reasons why students have difficulty formulating counter-analysis and how we can best help students to analyze ?the other...

Electronic textbooks - not a sure thing just yet.

Posted on June 10, 2009
We'd previously reported that the Kindle DX is likely to be the next big thing in academic technology. However, the Chronicle of Higher Ed reminds us that even seemingly great ideas must still find acceptance among the ever fickle public....

2010 Legal Writing Institute Conference - Remember to Submit Proposals by June 15!

Posted on June 10, 2009
The deadline to submit proposals for possible presentation at the 2010 LWI Conference is June 15, 2009. Click here to read one of our earlier posts about how to submit proposals to the LWI. The web site accepting proposals will...

California court to consumers - there's no such thing as a Crunchberry tree.

Posted on June 10, 2009
No wonder the public has a cynical view of lawyers. Some California lawyers agreed to take a case alleging that Cap't Crunch engaged in fraud by calling one of its cereals "Crunchberry" and thereby deceiving the public into thinking it...

More on the nature vs. nurture debate regarding IQ.

Posted on June 10, 2009
Here's an interesting Op-Ed piece from the Saturday New York Times reporting on a new book called Intelligence and How to Get It by University of Michigan psychology professor Richard Nisbett in which the good doctor argues that "success depends...

A June snapshot of the legal marketplace

Posted on June 09, 2009
Here's a sampling from this week's news about where things stand today. According to the Department of Labor, 1,300 legal services jobs were lost in May, 14,000 since January 1 and 25,000 in the past year. Is the worst behind...

Students say to panel of teachers: "Enough already with the group assignments!"

Posted on June 09, 2009
The Chronicle of Higher Ed is reporting that a group of undergraduate students who spoke at the Sixth Annual Teaching Professor conference in Wisconsin this past weekend had a message for the world's college instructors: "no more group assignments?at least...

Colorado Judge rules that academic tenure benefits the public

Posted on June 09, 2009
In a case involving a suit by faculty at Denver's Metropolitan State College that challenged a decision by the Board of Trustees to remove certain rights from the faculty handbook, the court stated that "the public interest is advanced more...

Trends in scholarly publishing

Posted on June 09, 2009
The Chronicle of Higher Ed asked several experts to make predictions and have provided their responses here. I am the scholarship dude. (jbl)

More Photos from Marco Island

Posted on June 09, 2009
The Legal Writing Institute will hold its 2010 National Conference on Marco Island, Florida. Proposals are due by June 15, 2009. The website accepting proposals will be shut down that following day, so no late proposals can be submitted. Suzanne...

ISBA Legal Writing Seminar

Posted on June 08, 2009
Jim Covington of the the Illinois State Bar Association will hold a one-day legal writing program in Chicago on Friday, June 12, 2009. Jim has a longstanding interest in good legal writing and I'm happy to see that he's putting...

You say "tomayto," I say "tomahto" but how-the-heck do you designate the whole a.m./p.m. thing?

Posted on June 07, 2009
Before we call the whole thing off, let's first consult the Business Writer blog which tells us that: The Associated Press Stylebook says: 4 p.m. Microsoft Manual of Style for Technical Publications says: 4 P.M. The Chicago Manual of Style...

Advice for women faculty who are seeking pay parity with male colleagues

Posted on June 07, 2009
This comes to us from the advice column of Inside Higher Ed. Here's an excerpt: Your goal is to bring your salary into parity with those of your senior male colleagues. You also want to get this resolved through informal...

Forget about "the dog ate my homework" and get ready for "the computer corrupted my file"

Posted on June 07, 2009
Free enterprise - 'ya gotta love it! Where there's a need, and a buck to be made, you can be sure some enterprising young rapscallion will step in to fill the void quicker than you can say "Adam Smith." Case...

Open advice thread for tips on conducting legal research on the cheap.

Posted on June 05, 2009
A brand new, law student edited blog called The Blackbook Legal Blog has started an open thread for exchanging tips on how to conduct legal research on the cheap. Most of the comments so far seem pretty sound - you...

An analysis of Judge Sotomayor's legal writing style

Posted on June 05, 2009
At last, you say, a post that's actually about writing. And not just any kind of writing, mind you, but honest-to-goodness legal writing. Maybe I've just grown tired of bashing Twitter. Anyway, the Blog of the LegalTimes is reporting on...

Do men and women judges see the law differently?

Posted on June 05, 2009
This is an interesting article from yesterday's New York Times discussing, in light of the Sotomayor nomination, whether gender plays a role in judicial decision-making. Here's an excerpt: [T]he idea that women may inherently view the law differently on occasion...

More Twitter problems - especially for lawyers

Posted on June 05, 2009
Why be coy? Let's just declare it open season on bashing the social networking trend du jour. Seems like everyone else has including this report from the Legal Blog Watch noting that not only is Twitter not a good marketing...

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