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Legal Writing Prof Blog

By law professors Coleen M. Barger, Sue Liemer and Nancy Soonpaa

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Last Entry: April 01, 2011 at 15:42:31

Law student who didn't pay back college loans denied admission to New York bar

Posted on April 21, 2009
This story comes to us from our very good buddy Professor Mitch Rubinstein at the Adjunct Law Prof blog. According to Professor Rubinstein: [The] moral of this case is that law students should expect to be required to pay back...

Role play games used to predict future of BigLaw practice and it ain't pretty

Posted on April 21, 2009
The online ABA Journal blog is reporting on role playing game experiment last weekend at Indiana's Maurer School of Law led by Professor Bill Henderson whose expertise is in the empirical analysis of the legal profession and legal education. Here...

National media picks up story of law schools trying to help deferred 3L's

Posted on April 21, 2009
The Chronicle of Higher Ed is running a story on the problem 3L law students are having either finding work or the financial strain to them caused by start dates that have been deferred until 2010 and what law schools...

China-U.S. Conference on Legal Information and Law Libraries

Posted on April 20, 2009
The inaugural China-United States Conference on Legal Information and Law Libraries is scheduled for 27-30 May 2009 in Beijing. Click here for more information. Hat tip to the International Association of Law Libraries. (mew)

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A Course in Istanbul for International Law Librarians

Posted on April 20, 2009
The International Association of Law Libraries (IALL) will hold its 28th annual course on international law librarianship in Istanbul, Turkey, on October 11-15, 2009. Click here for more information in a post on the Law Librarian Blog. Hat tip to...

Here's an essay you might find helpful: "Building a better lecture."

Posted on April 20, 2009
OK, lectures are supposed to be as passe as analog TV - so, like, last week. But the reality is that all professors still have to lecture from time to time in order to impart some foundation principles, provide important...

USNWR "Top 10" legal writing programs leaked

Posted on April 20, 2009
This list comes to us from our good buddy Professor Paul Caron at the TaxProf Blog. I can't independently verify the list, but Professor Caron says it's appears legitimate. Here it is: Seattle Mercer UNLV John Marshall (Chicago) Stetson Oregon...

The magic moment when the blog broke 200,000 - photos included

Posted on April 20, 2009
Although Professor Wojcik posted earlier today about this blog breaking the magic 200,000 hits/300,000 page views mark, I wanted all of our faithful readers to be able to share with us the excitement we felt as we watched the site-meter...

UCLA creates new "Transition to Practice" skills course for jobless graduates

Posted on April 20, 2009
This is a great idea and kudos to Dean Michael Schill at UCLA for spearheading an approach that not only responds to the (we hope) temporary economic circumstances facing new law grads but also addresses concerns raised by the Carnegie...

A primer on "deep web research" - you need to know this.

Posted on April 20, 2009
Ever hear the phrase "deep research" before? I hadn't until I read this post from the Legal Intelligencer via Law.com. "Deep research" is about accessing information within the "deep web" which is the part of the world wide web that...

The thrill of grading, the agony of da' valuations (student evals, that is)

Posted on April 20, 2009
It's that time of year again - when legal writing profs across the land immerse themselves in the end-of-the-semester grading marathon (some think of it instead as the pen and paper version of the "Bataan Death March"). And with the...

Our 200,000th Visitor!

Posted on April 19, 2009
The Legal Writing Prof Blog celebrated its 200,000th visitor earlier today. The visitor (we are not sure WHO you are, but it was someone from the United States) was drawn to our blog by a post (from March 2008) on...

The Lawyer's Editing Manual

Posted on April 18, 2009
If you are a legal writing professor looking for a reference book for students who need help with basic writing matters -- which pretty much describes every legal writing student at some moment in time -- try The Lawyer's Editing...

ah, the lowly comma

Posted on April 18, 2009
Over on his Literary Legs blog, Ben Opipari recently reported a US District Court case, in which an English professor testified about the placement of a comma and the omission of a coordinating conjunction. Despite objections from opposing counsel, this...

transforming law schools at next SALT conference

Posted on April 18, 2009
The Society for Law Teaching (SALT) has announced its next conference, on Teaching in a Transformative Era: The Law School of the Future, will take place December 10-11, 2010, at the University of Hawai?i in Honolulu. The conference will examine...

courage award

Posted on April 18, 2009
The Awards Committee of the Legal Writing Institute (LWI) has announced a call for nominations for the Terri LeClercq Courage Award for 2009. Any member of LWI may nominate someone for the award. Submit nominations directly to Susan Thrower at...

Practice pointer - how to handle citations to those pesky, disappearing websites

Posted on April 17, 2009
A few days ago, we posted about a potential problem facing attorneys who cite to online authority - it can disappear! And, indeed, it actually happened in this Florida appellate decision that cited to the website Encarta which will soon...

Vote for the best law school talent show video at ATL

Posted on April 17, 2009
The good people over at Above the Law are running a contest to vote for the best law school talent show video of the past year. We noted a couple of the contenders earlier this week but after hours and...

The job numbers are grim for 3L's

Posted on April 17, 2009
This blurb from Law.com pretty much says it all: The nation's law schools will spit out about 43,000 graduates next month, with roughly half of those lawyer-hopefuls expecting to take jobs in private practice. They will be entering an employment...

Some helpful tips from a partner to the associate on how to handle writing assignments

Posted on April 17, 2009
Here's some good advice you may want to impart to your students as they get ready to head off to their first summer job on how to handle research memo requests from the assigning attorney. As some of us remember...

Sorry folks, we may be stuck with law school rankings for a while

Posted on April 17, 2009
Given that USNWR rankings are due out next week, the timing of this story is quite appropriate. The Chronicle of Higher Ed is reporting on a conference held last week at Wake Forest called "Rethinking Admissions" during which several participants...

Professor Linda Edwards' appointment at UNLV is official

Posted on April 17, 2009
The William Boyd School of Law issued a press release today confirming that Linda Edwards' appointment as Professor of Law will commence in July, 2009. Until this point, Professor Edwards, originally a tenured professor at Mercer, has been a visitor....

Spring 2009 Newsletter for the AALS Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research

Posted on April 16, 2009
The Spring 2009 Newsletter of the Association of American Law School's Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research has just been published. To see a copy of it, click here to see the section's page on the AALS website, and...

Overdue library book finally returned, um, 52,858 days late.

Posted on April 16, 2009
Ouch! I'd hate to pay the late fees on this one. The Washington and Lee University News is reporting that a Union soldier took a book on June 11, 1864 from the Washington College (as it was then known) library...

Is I.Q. nature or nurture? More of the latter than we once thought says new book.

Posted on April 16, 2009
This is a truly interesting Op-Ed piece from today's NYT entitled How to Raise Our I.Q.that discusses new research into the roots of "traditionally" measured intelligence. Here's an excerpt: While [the] view of I.Q. as overwhelmingly inherited has been widely...

New online ABA Journal poll: What grammar or style conventions do you disagree with?

Posted on April 16, 2009
In honor of the 50th Anniversary of Strunk & White's The Elements of Style, the ABA Journal online blog is asking readers the following questions: 1. What persistent grammar or style conventions do you regularly see in others' writing and...

Undergraduate course teaches students effective study skills and motivation

Posted on April 16, 2009
The Chronicle of Higher Ed is reporting on an undergraduate skills course that purports to teach students how to ?manage their lives.? Along with the typical "array of note-taking and reading-comprehension tips," the course also covers "less-familiar lessons designed to...

A potential problem citing to online authority - it disappears.

Posted on April 15, 2009
The blog Abstract Appeal notes a potential problem lurking in all cites to virtual authorities that is underscored by Microsoft's recent decision to scuttle Encarta - the underlying authorities may simply vanish. It can happen. Last month, {Florida's] Fifth District...

Scholarship alert: new book discussing academic freedom

Posted on April 15, 2009
Two law professors, Robert C. Post - the David Boies Professor of Law at Yale, and Matthew W. Finkin - the Albert J. Harno and Edward W. Cleary Chair in Law at the University of Illinois, have just published a...

Another large firm managing partner declares BigLaw "has changed forever."

Posted on April 15, 2009
The ABA Journal Blog is reporting that Womble Carlyle, a 530 lawyer firm in the Southeast and Atlantic regions, is cutting pay an average of 10% beginning today. The pay cut is tied to performance meaning that some attorneys will...

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