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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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Proposed enhancements to Wikipedia might convince more courts of its reliability

Posted on February 21, 2009
I can't give you a link to this one because the story comes from a subscription only service, the February 4th edition of BNA's Electronic Commerce & Law Report (although you can find another news report here). But if there...

Goodbye to (print) law reviews?

Posted on February 21, 2009
Are law reviews in print among the next victims of the nation's worsening economy? Are they still relevant in light of the ever-increasing use of electronic databases for legal research? Will creating an open-access standard bring legal scholarship out of...

job opening at Penn

Posted on February 21, 2009
The University of Pennsylvania Law School invites applications for the position of Legal Writing Lecturer, beginning in August 2009. The Legal Writing Lecturer will assist the Director and Assistant Director of Legal Writing in teaching the first-year Legal Writing course;...

Do you know the difference between "in accordance with" and "according to?"

Posted on February 20, 2009
This guy does - legal drafting scholar, consultant, and adjunct professor Ken Adams.Garner's American Usage Dictionary says that according to means (1) ?depending on?; (2) ?as explained or reported by (a person)?; or (3) ?in accordance with.? It?s used relatively...

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New scholarship alert: "The Lawyer's Moral Obligation to Write Well."

Posted on February 20, 2009
Thanks to the (new) legal writing blog for tipping me off to this new article by Professor Jack Sammons of Mercer School of Law. From the abstract available on SSRN: "In this short article, and drawing upon George Steiner's famous...

New organization forming to advocate for adjuncts

Posted on February 20, 2009
On Sunday, a new organization, tentatively called the "National Coalition for Adjunct Faculty" will form to serve as a national advocacy group for "those off the tenure track." Read about it here and here. I am the scholarship dude. Surfin'...

Law students may need to brace for "economic re-set"

Posted on February 20, 2009
Things are worse than you thought, much worse, according to this American Lawyer article suggesting that the legal marketplace may be undergoing a fundamental change that will leave many newly minted lawyers with far fewer job options at much reduced...

USNWR considers adding "ethics" to law school rankings.

Posted on February 20, 2009
As reported in the USNWR blog, as well as by the ABA Journal here, the magazine responsible for publishing the highly controversial list of law school rankings is preliminarily considering whether to also include a measure of how well schools...

Call for Proposals--AALS Academic Support--the 21st Century Law Prof

Posted on February 20, 2009
The Workshop Program Committee of the AALS Section on Academic Support has issued a Call for Proposals for the 2010 AALS Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, scheduled for January 6-10, 2010. The theme of the 2010 AALS workshop is...

two openings at Texas Wesleyan

Posted on February 19, 2009
Texas Wesleyan University School of Law is now accepting applications for two positions in the Legal Analysis, Research, and Writing program for the academic year 2009-2010. The School of Law offers a three-semester program for legal analysis, research, and writing...

opening(s) for visitor at Elon

Posted on February 19, 2009
Elon University School of Law seeks one or more visiting professors for the 2009-2010 academic year. Visiting professors will teach two courses per semester, one of which will be the first-year Legal Writing course. Other teaching may include upper-level writing...

a good source of teaching ideas

Posted on February 18, 2009
Although it's geared to K-12, the Harvard Education Letter has insightful articles for those teaching at the college or graduate level, such as teaching middle school students about internet research and plagiarism and innovative teachers who are hindered or stymied...

More scholarship on the merit of student evaluations of professors

Posted on February 18, 2009
This blog entry fits with the one below like a goatee on a bald guy. University of Denver law professor Arthur Best has just published in the Southwestern U. law review an article entitled Student Evaluations of Law Teaching Work...

New study shows college students expect good grades just for showing up

Posted on February 18, 2009
Given the interest and scholarship generated by legal writing professors regarding the reliability of student evaluations generally and, more specifically, the research showing a correlation between expected grades and student rating of professors, I thought some of you might be...

What sentence diagrams reveal about President Obama

Posted on February 18, 2009
From today's Huffington Post - brush the cobwebs off your grade school sentence diagramming skills and follow along. Hat tip to Chris Wren - legal research giant. I am the scholarship dude. (jbl)

Lexis announces pay freeze for all employees

Posted on February 17, 2009
If you haven't already been hoarding gold, ammo and potable water, you may want to start. In a sure sign that the financial apocalypse is imminent, legal research and information technology giant Lexis just announced that salaries for all employees...

When the economy sucks, it's good to be a digital archivist

Posted on February 16, 2009
As noted by Blogmeister extraordinaire Professor Sue Liemer, below, the crummy (to put it mildly) economy is even affecting academia. Well, most of it, anyway. Not surprisingly, the demand among universities for digital archivists, according to this article, is way...

Librarians reinvent themselves in the digital era.

Posted on February 16, 2009
In the third installment of a New York Times series on "The Future of Reading," the newspaper reports on how grade school librarians are reinventing themselves in the digital age: "In Web Age, Library Gets Job Update." One public school...

Is digital literacy supplanting print literacy?

Posted on February 16, 2009
In a series of thought provoking articles, the New York Times is exploring the question of whether the emerging visual society we find ourselves in is redefining the notion of literacy itself. In this second installment entitled "Using Video Games...

not recession proof

Posted on February 16, 2009
The ABA Journal is reporting that law professors, too, are feeling the effects of the recession. Given that at many law schools the legal writing professors do not have tenure-line job security and are otherwise low in the faculty hierarchy,...

Are You Going to Hire a Faculty Research Assistant?

Posted on February 15, 2009
If you are planning to hire a faculty research assistant (or if you want to have a better working relationship with your current research assistants), you might want to share this link with students who apply for the job. http://ssrn.com/abstract=1265844...

and for first year research instruction ...

Posted on February 15, 2009
Click here to link to an article reminding us of the legal research basics that first year law students ought to learn. hat tip: Prof. Candle Wester-Mittan (spl)

Research Beyond the First Year

Posted on February 15, 2009
Brooke J. Bowman at Stetson University College of Law has a new article of intererest on SSRN. The article is called Researching Across the Curriculum: The Road Must Continue Beyond the First Year and it was published in the Oklahoma...

Short list of pros and cons of online legal research

Posted on February 13, 2009
This post comes from our good buddies at the Law Librarian Blog - a short outline of the pros and cons of online legal research tools. Here 'tis:There are many advantages to having high technology at your disposal as a...

why law school library directors should be tenured

Posted on February 12, 2009
Of natural interest to legal writing professors, Spencer Simons, at the University of Houston, has written an article explaining "What Interests are Served When Academic Law Library Directors are Tenured Law Faculty? An Analysis and Proposal". Here's his abstract: "A...

kudos, Chris!

Posted on February 12, 2009
Chris Coughlin, legal writing professor extraordinaire at Wake Forest University, has received the 2008 Joseph Branch Excellence in Teaching Award. This is a university-wide award, and Chris will be recognized for her teaching at a university-wide convocation...

ABA Midyear Meeting in Boston

Posted on February 12, 2009
For the first time, proceedings of the ABA House of Delegates will be available by webcast. The House of Delegates will meet Monday, February 16, 2009 beginning at 8:00 am ET. At 1:45 pm ET, the House will consider Report...

200th Anniversary of the Birth of President (and Lawyer) Abraham Lincoln

Posted on February 12, 2009
Today marks the 200th anniversary of one of our country's greatest legal writers, Abraham Lincoln of Illinois. (mew)

call for proposals: Lone Star LRW conference

Posted on February 11, 2009
Greetings! The Lone Star Regional Legal Research and Writing Conference will be held at Texas Tech University School of Law on May 29-30, 2009. We invite proposals for presentations at this conference and welcome proposals from anyone involved in legal...

One large firm requires attorneys to use Loislaw rather than Westlaw/Lexis to save costs

Posted on February 10, 2009
Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell now requires its attorneys to use Loislaw for certain legal research tasks instead of Westlaw or Lexis in order to save money. According to a firm memo posted on AboveTheLaw.com, LLB & L favors Loislaw...

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