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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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ABA Section of Legal Education - Report of the Special Committee on Security of Position

Posted on July 18, 2008
Here is a link to the ABA Section of Legal Education Report that Suzanne Rowe discussed during the LWI meeting. Professor Rowe has prepared LWI's comments in response to this report. Click here for the ABA report. (mew)

LWI session: Life-long Legal Writing

Posted on July 17, 2008
Kris Butler and Mike Cavanaugh (Holland & Knight LLP) and Kathleen Dillon Narko (Northwestern) discussed law firm recruiting needs and the gap between law school education and practice needs in skills training. Mr. Cavanaugh spoke about recent grads' lack of...

interested in joining an LWI committee?

Posted on July 17, 2008
Kirsten Dauphinais (UND) chaired the Welcome Fair held Wednesday afternoon at LWI. The committee accepted about 80 Committee Interest Forms from members interested in serving on LWI committees. What a great response! The Welcome Fair Committee included Gail Stephenson, Kirsten...

Learning Theory and Student Expectations - Tips From Three Experts

Posted on July 17, 2008
Three superstars of the legal writing field are Sonia Bychkov Green, Maureen Straub Kordesh, and Julie Spanbauer, all of The John Marshall Law School in Chicago. They presented a well-attended program this morning on how to incorporate learning theory and...

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Teaching Civil Law Students About the Common Law; Teaching Common Law Students About the Civil Law

Posted on July 17, 2008
Teresa Brostoff and Ann Sinsheimer presented on how to teaching international students about common law reasoning using civil law cases. They described how their original course in English for Lawyers (designed for students entering LL.M. programs in the United States),...

All About India

Posted on July 17, 2008
Professor Marilyn Walter discussed her experiences teaching at law schools in India. She said that law schools in India are interested in improving their instruction in legal writing, and that there are many opportunities for U.S. professors to teach legal...

All About Grading

Posted on July 17, 2008
Timothy D. Blevins of Florida A&M presented on "Grading: Using Spreadsheets and Rubrics." Breaking down the points per category can convey a greater sense of fairness in grading. He also recommended reserving a percentage of the assessment total for an...

Electronic Commenting on Student Papers

Posted on July 16, 2008
Linda Hiemer (pictured at right) and Jane Wise of Concord Law School presented a session on how to comment on papers using VoiceLynx technology. Their law school (Concord Law School) is a completely online law school founded in 1988. In...

Scholarship Dude

Posted on July 16, 2008
Jim Levy of Nova Southeastern University School of Law Shepard Broad Law Center in Fort Lauderdale Florida has generously agreed to become a contributing editor of this blog. Although you may see him posting on a number of subjects, he...

Grumpy Ed Explains the "Grammar Bee"

Posted on July 16, 2008
More from the Legal Writing Institute Conference in Indianapolis. William Blais of DePaul University College of Law gave some interesting grammar tips in his presentation on A Narrative Approach to Teaching Grammar. Here are some of the tips he shared:...

Live Grading

Posted on July 16, 2008
There was a lively debate last night during the "popcorn session" on live grading. We discussed its uses, benefits, and dangers for an hour and a half in a well-attended session. What do students think about live grading? Click here...

Effective Methods for Teaching Legal Writing on Online

Posted on July 16, 2008
For the millennial generation, technology is not a separate idea. It's more like air or water--something that is plentiful and constantly surrounding us. The millennial generation also believes that e-mail is for old people. They text, they IM (instant message),...

poster presentations at LWI

Posted on July 16, 2008
At this year's LWI conferen ce, poster presentations offered a new way for participants to share their research. Judith Fischer of Louisville (she's on left side of the picture on the left) explained her work on "Judges and Gender-Neutral Language:...

Plenary Session at LWI

Posted on July 16, 2008
The LWI Conference started off with a humor-filled presentation on the "Divine Secrets of the Ha-Ha Sisterhood"--tips on using humor in the classroom. Sheila Simon of Southern Illinois, Mary Beth Beazley of Ohio State, and Hollee Temple of West Virginia...

Sidney Portier versus Burt Reynolds

Posted on July 15, 2008
Michael Higdon and Rebecca Scharf of the University of Nevada at Las Vegas gave a standing room only presentation on non-verbal communication in the classroom. It was called "Harnessing the Power of Nonverbal Persuasion: How You Can Make Your Students...

The Science and Ethics Behind the Americans with Disabilities Act

Posted on July 15, 2008
Suzanne E. Rowe of the University of Oregon School of Law presented on The Science (and Ethics) Behind the Americans with Disabilities Act. She began with the idea that well-intentioned but excessive accommodations in law school might produce graduates whose...

Visitors from Africa at the LWI Conference

Posted on July 15, 2008
Eight visiting scholars from Africa are attending the LWI conference. Please seek them out, welcome them to the United States, and ask them about what they are learning here at the LWI conference. You'll double your own learning by engaging...

Learning from Canadians

Posted on July 15, 2008
Erika Abner and Shelley Kierstead presented results of an extensive survey they conducted of practitioners in Canada on ways to improve the teaching of legal writing. Among the survey results that they shared: Remember that legal writing is a reflection...

Live from LWI

Posted on July 15, 2008
We invite all of our readers who are attending the Legal Writing Institute Conference to send us emails with notes from sessions you attend. We will try to post conference highlights here (and not just raves about this morning's presentation...

Journal of Legal Writing

Posted on July 14, 2008
In addition to all of the public events at the LWI conference, there is much LWI business to report this week. The LWI Board approved the selection by the Board of Editors of the Journal of Legal Writing to name...

Legal Writing Institute Conference

Posted on July 14, 2008
A great opening day at the LWI Conference in Indianapolis, with a great reception and awards presentations at the Arts Garden. This is the largest LWI Conference ever, with 617 attendees. Award presentations included the LeClercq Award to Ralph Brill...

Wojcik appointed to UN observer post

Posted on July 13, 2008
T he American Bar Association has just named this blog's contributing editor, Mark Wojcik, to be the ABA's Alternate Observer to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. Felicitations! Bravo! Way to go! hat tip: Molly Lien (cmb)

the informal curriculum

Posted on July 13, 2008
There are a lot of things that law students need to pick up over the course of three years of law school that are not part of the formal curriculum: how to eat at a formal dinner, how to negotiate...

CNN recently reported on a judge's

Posted on July 13, 2008
CNN recently reported on a judge's decision that a 465 page complaint was too long. The concluding paragraph of the decision was in the form of a limerick: "Plaintiff has a great deal to say, But it seems he skipped...

Molly Lien

Posted on July 12, 2008
Molly Lien, Professor of Law and Director of the Lawyering Skills Program at The John Marshall Law School in Chicago, announced this week that she was stepping down as director of The John Marshall Law School Lawyering Skills Program and...

The Google Generation and Legal Research

Posted on July 12, 2008
And further to the post below . . . perhaps the winner in Westlaw versus Lexis is Google? Click here for a link to the Google Generation and Legal Research. Hat tip to our friends at the Law Librarian Blog...

Westlaw versus Lexis

Posted on July 12, 2008
Westlaw versus Lexis? Which one wins? Click here to see a post on the Law Librarian Blog about two recent surveys. Hat tip to our friends at the Law Librarian Blog. (mew)

A New Edition of the Bluebook

Posted on July 12, 2008
A new edition of the Bluebook is scheduled to be released in Summer 2010. Woo-hoo! Hat tip to Dean Tracy McGaugh (mew)

multi-tasking & learning

Posted on July 10, 2008
The London Times is reporting findings about students multi-tasking on-line while trying to learn. The comments posted after the report are interesting, too. hat tip: Professor R.J. Robertson, Southern Illinois University (spl)

screencast-o-matic

Posted on July 10, 2008
I couldn't make up the name if I tried. If you go to the website for Screencast-o-Matic, you will learn (for free) how to capture a sequence of computer screen shots as a little video. This can be really handy...

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