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not just Garner's nightmare

Posted on April 29, 2009
from Courtoons (check it out): (cmb)

Professor Lisa McElroy receives favorable mention on PrawfsBlawg

Posted on April 29, 2009
For her article From Grimm to Glory: Simulated Oral Argument as a Component of Legal Education's Signature Pedagogy, 84 Ind. L.J. 589 (2009). Read the full post here. Hat tip to Professor Marci Rosenthal. I am the scholarship dude. (jbl)

How to make your class lectures more interactive

Posted on April 29, 2009
Here's some very good advice from Inside Higher Ed. I am the scholarship dude. (jbl)

Are lawyers using Craigslist to find clients?

Posted on April 29, 2009
That's the ABA Journal blog's question of the week. Reader comments are posted here. Presumably, the blog will post the best/most representative comments next week. We'll be sure to let you know when they do. I am the scholarship dude....

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Panel of "best lawyers" and deans meet to discuss future of legal education and the profession

Posted on April 29, 2009
A panel consisting of the "best lawyers" in America (as determined by their peers) along with a handful of law deans met in Atlanta last Friday to discuss the future of legal education as well as the future of the...

A new hypothesis for the decline in newspaper readership - breakfast on the go

Posted on April 29, 2009
This post from the Volokh Conspiracy suggests that one reason for falling newspaper readership may be lifestyle changes resulting in the decline of the 'ol eat-at-home-breakfast routine. Professor Zywicki admits that his hypothesis may be somewhat "far-fetched" and that it's...

Ban the band . . . width, from your vocabulary that is

Posted on April 29, 2009
Here's a post you may find interesting courtesy of the Business Writing blog that complains about the word "bandwidth" creeping into the contemporary lexicon. Bandwidth means "the transmissions capacity of an electronic communication device" and thus it's incorrect to say:...

Professionalism alert - second jurisdiction pulls lawyer's license for failure to pay student loans

Posted on April 28, 2009
Last week, we reported on a story about a law school grad who passed the New York bar but was denied admission in that state for failing to pay back his student loans. Now comes this story, from our good...

How to handle having your article rejected by a journal

Posted on April 28, 2009
If you're a Harvard student, you can always enroll in their course on how to handle rejection. If you're not so lucky (perhaps you're still trying to recover from being rejected by Harvard yourself, years earlier), you may want to...

English and foreign language departments promote men more quickly than women

Posted on April 28, 2009
According to this report from Inside higher Ed.: English and foreign language departments promote male associate professors to full professors on average at least a year -- and in some cases, depending on type of institutions, several years -- more...

Survey shows 40% of students applied to law school, in part, to avoid looking for a job

Posted on April 28, 2009
The survey also found that 67% of the 1040 respondents said they applied to law school, in part, because of the potential earning power lawyers enjoy. Double-ouch! Um, guys, did you do any research before applying to law school? The...

Facebook loves you after all - so you can now keep what you post

Posted on April 28, 2009
Facebook has hemmed and hawed on this issue more than Bill Clinton trying to explain what "sexual relations" means. To follow up on a story we've been covering the past few months (here and here), SiliconValley.com is reporting that Facebook...

finding older posts on Legal Writing Prof Blog

Posted on April 28, 2009
Several of our astute readers have contacted us to ask about the blog's defective archive feature, which displays only the last week of the month. The earlier posts have not disappeared into cyberspace, but they require more work to locate....

Black's Law Dicitionary added to iTunes

Posted on April 28, 2009
You knew this was coming - West is now making Black's Law Dictionary available through iTunes. That's right, friends, you now have the ability to look up arcane legal expressions on the spot using your iPhone when the judge or...

a picture of Debbie Parker in Ireland

Posted on April 28, 2009
Katy Mercer of Case Western sent in a picture of Debbie Parker and her husband (center), along with Steve Johannsen and his wife and Katy's husband and their two girls in Ireland. Katy's comment is listed in the Sunday posting....

Twitter do's and don'ts . . . plus a new Twibe

Posted on April 28, 2009
From Steven Matthews on the Canadian legal blog Slaw, here is a great list of considerations, in the form of do's and don'ts, for lawyers (and law students) considering Twitter: A few highlights: Do recommend books and articles that you?ve...

disconnect between USNWR overall rankings and LRW rankings

Posted on April 28, 2009
Ken Adams (in his AdamsDrafting blog) has noticed the disconnect between USNWR's overall rankings of law schools and its rankings of legal writing programs. He writes: What you notice immediately is that the rankings for legal writing in no way...

Great quote about writing - it's a classic

Posted on April 28, 2009
Among my favorite legal writing quotes are Professor Joe Kimble's oft repeated "Writing is thinking in ink" and William Zinsser's "Fuzzy writing is almost always the result of fuzzy thinking." But here's an earlier variation on the same theme, this...

The most important skills law firms require new grads to possess - writing is among them

Posted on April 28, 2009
The New York Law Journal includes a special insert this week devoted to advising 3L's on how to hunt for jobs and what skills they'll need once they bag their prey. One of the articles, What Law Firms Want in...

Professionalism alert - Email etiquette for students along with book recommendation

Posted on April 28, 2009
Here's some useful advice you may want to pass along to your students (or even a colleague). It comes to us by way of the career counselor column in the Chronicle of Higher Ed. Among the nuggets of wisdom are...

obituary, memorial information for Wake Forest Prof Deborah Parker

Posted on April 26, 2009
I join my colleagues on this blog and in the legal writing community in mourning the loss of our good friend Debbie Parker. I got to know Debbie when we served together on the Board of Directors of the Legal...

Debbie Parker

Posted on April 26, 2009
Very sad news. Debbie Parker, a law professor, the Director of Legal Research and Writing, and former Associate Dean for Students at Wake Forest University School of Law in North Carolina, died unexpectedly this weekend. She was the wife of...

The blog will remain silent today in remembrance of Professor Deborah Leonard Parker

Posted on April 26, 2009
You may leave remembrances in the comment section below or at the Guest Book established by her family. With deepest sympathies to Debbie's family. The blog editors, Jim, Mark, Nancy, Sue, and Coleen. (jbl)

Go (mid)-west young lawyer - they be hirin'!

Posted on April 25, 2009
Unlike the coasts, where legal jobs are as scarce as a well-performing mutual fund, the National Law Journal is reporting that things are better in the country's mid-section. Midsize law firms in the Midwest, outside the biggest cities, are hiring...

Twitter the video: Wherein our young hero struggles against the pressure to Twitter.

Posted on April 25, 2009
You've got to watch this - a very funny video that pretty much sums up the whole Twitter 'thang for me. If the embedded video below doesn't work, here's the direct link "Pick your next words wisely!" I am the...

USNWR legal writing rankings - love or hate 'em, Deans embrace 'em

Posted on April 25, 2009
It hasn't taken long for Deans at those schools with legal writing programs ranked by USNWR to begin touting their place on the list. Here's a partial run-down of press releases: Arkansas-Fayetteville Boston College BYU Drake Lewis & Clark Oregon...

techno-differences

Posted on April 25, 2009
If you wonder just how differently Boomers, Gen Xers, and Millenials view and use technology on the job, you can see the results of a LexisNexis survey. hat tip: John Mollenkamp (spl)

LRW at OSU

Posted on April 25, 2009
Legal writing veteran, Professor Mary Beth Beazley, has won the Teacher of the Year award at Ohio State University's law school. And former legal writing teacher, Monte Smith, has won the Staff Member of the Year award at the same...

Looks like Facebook doesn't want you that much after all

Posted on April 24, 2009
Following up on a story we blogged about in February called Facebook wants you! (to help them draft a user's bill of rights) in which the social networking giant asked its members draft a new user's agreement following a PR...

Maira Kalman illustrated tribute to Justice Ginsburg

Posted on April 24, 2009
This one comes to us from Professor Mary Beth Beazley - a NYT's piece called "And the Pursuit of Happiness" which is a tribute to Justice Ginsburg and other women who have fought for the rights of others. Written and...

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