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Legal Writing

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

Scholarship alert: Tapping the Human Adaptive Origins of Storytelling by Requiring Legal Writing Students to Read a Novel in Order to Appreciate How Character, Setting, Plot, Theme and Tone (CSPTT) are as Important as IRAC

Posted on April 02, 2009
Wow - that's a mouthful, but this one is sure to melt in your brain, not in your hands. Authored by Professor Bret Rappaport, a partner in private practice who is also an adjunct legal writing professor at DePaul, it's...

Ward Churchill case goes to the jury

Posted on April 02, 2009
By way of update, the Ward Churchill case was sent to the jury yesterday following closing arguments by both parties. As we previously reported, students from the University of Denver's School of Law have been blogging the case here and...

It's official - The NYT says "It's Time to Rethink the Legal Profession"

Posted on April 02, 2009
We've been saying it for months on this blog, now the New York Times adds its imprimatur to the growing number of commentators who recognize that we may be heading towards a ?a paradigm-shifting, blood-in-the-suites? change in everything from the...

The "stoned professor" update

Posted on April 02, 2009
A few days ago, we reported on the pitfalls of videotaping one's class to the extent it winds up on YouTube. To cement the point, we also blogged about a University of Florida professor who was apparently fired for appearing...

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Ward Churchill wins - jury awards him $1

Posted on April 02, 2009
This just in - the jury has returned a verdict for Professor Ward Churchill, awarding him $1 in damages. According to a law student blog, the judge has yet to rule on whether he will be reinstated to his former...

Spring 2009 issue of The Law Teacher is out now

Posted on April 02, 2009
Published by the Law Institute for Law Teaching and Learning, The Law Teacher is a twice yearly online publication that, according to its mission statement, "provides a forum for ideas for improving teaching and learning in law schools and informs...

green legal writers

Posted on April 01, 2009
Of course the first ever green legal writing conference is being held in the Pacific Northwest! Lewis & Clark Law School and the University of Oregon School of Law have teamed up to bring us a conference with the theme:...

workshop for new legal writing profs

Posted on April 01, 2009
AALS has announced this year's Workshop for Beginning Legal Writing Teachers, June 20 - 21, in Washington, D.C. You can attend just this workshop or arrive a couple of days earlier and attend the workshop geared at all new law...

job opening in L.A.

Posted on April 01, 2009
Loyola Law School-Los Angeles is taking applications for one full-time, non-tenure track position as an Associate Clinical Professor for the 2009-10 academic year, to teach the legal writing component of two sections of required first-year Legal Research and Writing and...

37,000+ Visits and 50,000+ Page Views

Posted on April 01, 2009
The Legal Writing Prof Blog is HOT! In March we had more than 37,000 visits and more than 50,000 page views. Thanks, blog readers! We appreciate your visits. Nancy, Sue, Coleen, Mark, and Jim

If April is the cruelest month, March was no walk in the park either

Posted on April 01, 2009
Especially if you're an attorney. After the dust settled in the month just passed, you could add another 3,500 attorneys and staff to the funeral pyre. All told, 7,000 have lost their jobs since January 1 and as we reported...

Martindale-Hubbell jumps into the online social networking game

Posted on April 01, 2009
And why not? Everyone else is doing it including the ABA's Legally Minded as well as a brand new social networking site just for law students called Advanced Advocates. The launch of M-H Connected is intended to, according to its...

BigLaw managing partners pessimistic about year ahead - tough times not over yet

Posted on March 31, 2009
Buckle up, folks, there's still plenty of turbulence ahead. According to Citi's private banking law division which has "for more than a quarter-century . . . analyzed the fiscal performance of law firms annually," managing partners at large firms are...

And you thought she was just taking notes . . .

Posted on March 31, 2009
Some of our law students are writing across the curriculum. That is, they are writing in all their classes. Problem is, they are writing novels, not briefs, memos, or contracts. The ABA Journal reports that a Wake Forest law student...

inaugural issue of LRWPROF-L Community News

Posted on March 31, 2009
The Legal Writing Prof Blog is happy to host the inaugural issue of the LRWPROF listserv's newsletter. Download it here: Download Lrwprof_Newsletter_Vol1_Issue_1_033109 And here is a message from the newsletter editors: A NEW NEWSLETTER FOR A CHANGING PROFESSION The emergence...

Guess what? Visual learners really do think in pictures

Posted on March 31, 2009
It comes as no news (at least it shouldn't) to any classroom teacher worth their salt that each student has a different learning style. Some are visual learners, some are kinesthetic learners, some aural, etc. So, you're now thinking to...

Eric Holder is right - we are cowards

Posted on March 31, 2009
At least according to this very thoughtful excerpt from a book by the late Professor Paul Lyons reprinted in Inside Higher Ed. We had reported earlier that another new book suggests that university faculties, in general, have become more timid...

Journal of African Communications

Posted on March 30, 2009
This may be of interest to our readers who are members of APPEAL. The Journal of African Communications welcomes articles for possible publication. Contact Andy Alali in the Department of Communications at California State University in Bakersfield, California...

The library of the future - don't count books out just yet.

Posted on March 30, 2009
The Chronicle of Higher Ed is reporting an interesting debate going on at Stanford over what the research library of the future should look like. The discussion is the result of the administration's decision in 2007 to tear down the...

Be careful when you Tweet - first Twitter lawsuit hits the courts

Posted on March 30, 2009
The ABA Journal is reporting that singer Courtney Love is being sued by a fashion designer for allegedly defamatory statements Ms. Love made about the plaintiff on Twitter and Facebook. I guess it was only a matter of time before...

New online social networking site just for law students

Posted on March 30, 2009
The Shark is reporting the launch of yet another social networking site called Advanced Advocates which hopes to be to law students what Facebook is to undergraduates. It's being touted as "a one-stop hub for briefs, outlines, student employer reviews,...

more information about Lone Star

Posted on March 29, 2009
Thinking about attending the Lone Star Legal Writing Conference at Texas Tech on May 29-30? Get more information and register by going to http://www.law.ttu.edu/op/rwc/event_details.asp. And keep checking back . . . the final schedule of presentations will be posted in...

Bar journal alert: "Using Microsoft Word's Readability Program"

Posted on March 29, 2009
Way back in time - like, last summer - when I was given the scholarship beat for this blog, I put out a call that if you had a new article you'd like me to mention, send me an email...

Lou Sirico Explains How Muddied Writing Can Cause Problems

Posted on March 28, 2009
Louis J Sirico, Jr., a professor of law and director of the legal writing program at Villanova University School of Law (and while we're at it, he was also the Immediate Past Chair of the AALS Section on Legal Writing...

jargon vs. gibberish

Posted on March 28, 2009
In yesterday's post on the Marquette University Law School faculty blog, Professor Jessica Slavin unpacks for us the difference between jargon and gibberish, as she explores The Concise Gibberish of the Law. As with many things in this life, the...

Follow up to new book on the mechanics of decision-making

Posted on March 28, 2009
Back in December, we reported on a then forthcoming book on the neuroscience of decision-making which should be of interest to any law school professor who teaches persuasion. Last Sunday's New York Times book review contained a very favorable review...

Don't try this at work! At home? Maybe.

Posted on March 28, 2009
Apropos to our blog entry a few days ago about the downside of taping one's class, this YouTube video pretty much cements the point. After this tape surfaced on the Internet, this University of Florida business professor was promptly fired...

UR RSS feeds

Posted on March 28, 2009
So how well are you using RSS feeds? If you're not sure, you likely will appreciate Professor Diane Murley's article on The Power of RSS Feeds. And if you don't even know what an RSS feed is, her article is...

Beware the pitfalls of videotaping your classes

Posted on March 27, 2009
Several law professors now tape their classes and make those videos available to students on school websites or through iTunes. However, this article from the Chronicle of Higher Education points out that when you tape a class, you expose to...

just a test

Posted on March 27, 2009
Let's see if we can get Stevie Wonder's performance of "Superstition" on Sesame Street to work as an embedded video. Enjoy. We'll take it down on Saturday. (cmb)

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