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Legal Writing Prof Blog 
By law professors Coleen M. Barger, Sue Liemer and Nancy Soonpaa
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Moot Court Results from India - Congratulations to The John Marshall Law School of Chicago
Posted on March 01, 2009Call For Proposals: Central Region Conference on Legal Research, Analysis, and Writing
Posted on March 01, 2009"Yes we scan!" - Carl Malamud wants open access for all public legal materials
Posted on February 27, 2009Law Schools Invited to Sponsor the 2010 Legal Writing Institute (LWI) Conference
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Posted on February 26, 2009According to this press release issued by the National Association of Law Placement ("NALP"). While overall legal recruiting has been down substantially, to say the least, 2L recruiting has been especially hard hit: The most dramatic impact of the current...
finishing touches
Posted on February 26, 2009Sometimes a little humor gets the point across better than any lecture. This image is bound to become a classic for all teachers of legal writing. From David E. Mills and Courtoons. (cmb) . . . . . .
AALS Section on Academic Support Invites Proposals for the 2010 Annual Meeting in New Orleans
Posted on February 26, 2009The Association of American Law Schools Section on Academic Support has issued a call for its 2010 AALS Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, during the AALS Annual Meeting to be held January 6-10, 2010. The theme of the 2009...
Some Law Schools Are Switching to Pass/Fail
Posted on February 26, 2009An article on law.com notes that several leading law schools are rethinking their grading systems and deciding to move from letter grades to pass/fail grading. Harvard and Stanford are among the schools mentioned in the article that are moving away...
Imagine that
Posted on February 25, 2009In footnote 2 of an opinion released today, Justice Samuel Alito quoted the entire lyrics of a song by a former Beatle. You may say Alito's a dreamer, but he's not the only one. Four justices concurred, and there were...
McGeorge Rethinks Its Writing Program
Posted on February 25, 2009The Pacific McGeorge School of Law, by unanimous faculty vote, converted its legal research and writing program into a two-year program entitled ?Global Lawyering Skills.? The new program will begin in the fall semester of the 2009-2010 academic year...
Follow Eric Holder's Twitter feed - NOT!
Posted on February 25, 2009I thought I made a really cool discovery when I learned that they surf at Gitmo. Turns out it's a hoax. Oh, well. Hat to the ABA Journal blog. I am the scholarship dude. (jbl)
In bad economy, undergraduate humanities suffer
Posted on February 25, 2009This may not bode well for the skill set we can expect to see in future law school applicants. The New York Times is reporting today that undergraduate humanities, which typically encompass courses with a heavy emphasis on writing and...
New study shows "stereotype threat" affects women and minorities on standardized tests
Posted on February 25, 2009A new study by researchers from Stanford and Waterloo University, publication pending in Psychological Science but available here now, suggests that minority students and women under-perform on standardized tests like the SAT due to the phenomenon of self-fulfilling negative stereotypes...
A new book on teaching with "clickers."
Posted on February 24, 2009You know them, you love them. That's right, friends - it's the "ShamWow" of the contemporary classroom: Clickers. Well, Jossey-Bass has just published what may be the first book for teachers on how to make the best use of these...
Mark your calendar - October 20 is "National Writing Day."
Posted on February 24, 2009The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE to those of us in the know) has declared October 20, 2009 as "National Writing Day" in recognition of "the remarkable variety of writing we engage in and [to] help make writers...
What it means to write in the 21st Century - a new paradigm
Posted on February 24, 2009A new report released by National Council of English Teachers calls upon writing instructors to re-think what it means to 'compose" in the digital age and to adapt our teaching methods accordingly. The report, available here, is authored by NCTE...
New Salary Categories for LRW Job Postings
Posted on February 24, 2009The Boards of the Association of Legal Writing Directors (ALWD) and the Legal Wrigint Institute have jointly to update the salary categories on the job posting forms used for posting legal writing jobs on legal writing listserves. The old salary...
Obama to Face His Toughest Critics Tonight
Posted on February 24, 2009?When President Obama speaks before Congress and the nation tonight, he will be facing some of his toughest critics. Grammar junkies.? Click here to read more from the New York Times. Hat tip to Professor Andy Starkis at Massachusetts School...
Congratulations to Laurel Oates!
Posted on February 24, 2009Congratulations to Laurel Oates for her innovative use of legal writing assignments in support of her school's immigration clinic at Seattle University School of Law. Because of her involvement and support, the students won T-visas (for victims of Trafficking) for...
A new perspective on curbing student plagiarism
Posted on February 23, 2009This week's edition of the Chronicle of Higher Education has a pair of interesting columns on student plagiarism. In the first, "Academic Integrity and Student Plagiarism: A Question of Education, Not Ethics," a professor offers her advice that the best...
bad writing in briefs
Posted on February 23, 2009Want some real-life examples of bad writing in briefs and other lawyers' reactions? Go to this blog. While the last post was in 2008, the examples are still good. Or maybe writing has improved so much that there are no...
A sobering list of BigLaw lay-offs to date.
Posted on February 23, 2009The American Lawyer has compiled a list of the top firm lay-offs including staff, associates and partners since the financial crisis took on steam this fall. It's a stark indicator of the present state of the legal marketplace. Especially when...
Blind law school applicant sues LSAC over equal access.
Posted on February 23, 2009As reported by the National Law Journal, a suit was filed last Thursday by the National Federation of the Blind on behalf of a law school applicant in a California state court. The suit alleges that the Law School Admissions...
Follow up - National Coalition of Adjunct Faculty is a reality
Posted on February 23, 2009To follow up on a story we brought you last Friday courtesy of Inside Higher Education, the National Coalition of Adjunct Faculty became a reality yesterday (Sunday, February 22, 2009) when Deborah Louis of Eastern Kentucky University and Maria Maisto...
Microsoft funds project to explore pedagogical application of video games
Posted on February 23, 2009SiliconValley.com is reporting that Microsoft has ponied up $1.5 million to start "The Games for Learning Institute," a joint venture with NYU and other colleges to see if video games can be used to better teach students math, science and...
visitorship at Baltimore
Posted on February 22, 2009The University of Baltimore School of Law has an opening for a visitor to teach the Introduction to Lawyering Skills (ILS) course next fall. The course is integrated with a doctrinal subject. The school is looking for someone to teach...
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Oh, yes. This can be taken in as so many things, especially since you had testif...
How to evict a roommate?
First, in most jurisdictions "self-help" is not a remedy available to any party ...
I have worked for this employer for only three weeks. The employer makes up his own rules as to what he chooses to report for the purpose of property taxes. He tells me to "let them come after us". He defines Entertain
He arrogantly insists, "let them come after us." Well, if you are invo...
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well if you could get him to a mental health facility they could screen him for ...
This has happened 3 or 4 times a month now- they have turned the electric off 2 days consecutively, the water off about 9 or 10 times now, and our heat has broken 5 times (once it would not shut off, and we were forced t
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