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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

job opening at University of San Diego

Posted on April 25, 2008
The University of San Diego School of Law invites applications for full-time as well as part-time instructors in its directorless legal research, writing, and analysis program, Lawyering Skills I (LSI), to begin in the fall of 2008. The Instructors? responsibilities...

does everybody in Canada agree with their Department of Justice?

Posted on April 25, 2008
News on the grammar front. The Canadian Department of Justice (le Ministère de la Justice) has endorsed use of the pronoun "they" to refer to a singular indefinite noun. Linguists often use the term "epicene," or genderless, to refer to...

Bluebook Editors Ask for Input on the Next Edition

Posted on April 25, 2008
The editors of The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation are preparing the next edition of their citation guide. They are asking users to complete a rather long and tedious survey on what to improve in The Bluebook. I made...

Scholarship and Tenure Standards

Posted on April 24, 2008
The Law School Innovation Blog has a new posting on the anguish of tenure standards and the expectations to produce scholarship. Mark Osler writes that he sees three groups involved in the process: the teaching faculty, the deans/department chairs, and...

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LWI Conference - Did You Book a Hotel Room?

Posted on April 24, 2008
We hear that hotel rooms are no longer available at the Hyatt in Indianapolis. The Legal Writing Institute has secured a block of rooms at the Omni Severin, which is about two blocks south of the Hyatt. A special rate...

great standards of review outline

Posted on April 23, 2008
Here's a post from another blog that could be helpful in teaching standard of review. I wasn't familiar with the Ninth Circuit Outlines, but I will be using this next year!! hat tip: Mark Herrmann, blog editor, Drug and Device...

Congratulations, Ruth Ann McKinney and Scott E. Childs!

Posted on April 22, 2008
Ruth Ann McKinney took on a co-author for the fifth edition of her book, Legal Research: A Practical Guide and Self-Instructional Workbook, published by Thomson/West. Ruth Ann is a Clinical Professor of Law and director of the Writing and Learning...

Texas Supreme Court hears arguments at Texas Tech

Posted on April 22, 2008
Looking for oral arguments online? Today Texas Tech celebrated its fabulous new 34,000-square-foot addition with the Texas Supreme Court sitting in the new "courtroom of the future" to hear oral arguments. Video of the arguments is available, as are summaries...

lead article award for Jane Kent Gionfriddo

Posted on April 21, 2008
Congratulations to Jane Kent Gionfriddo, Associate Professor of Legal Reasoning, Research & Writing, Boston College Law School, who recently won a Texas Tech Law Review lead-article award for her piece titled "THINKING LIKE A LAWYER: THE HEURISTICS OF CASE SYNTHESIS...

LWI Conference Preview - Session 1

Posted on April 21, 2008
The 13th Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing Institute will soon be here. After the opening plenary session with the Ha-Ha Sisterhood, we'll travel to the conference site for the first session of the Legal Writing Institute. Programs during this...

A Debate on Electronic Course Materials?: Faculty are Urged to Sign Up for the Affordable Textbook Campaign; A University is Sued for Electronically Distributing Copyrighted Materials

Posted on April 20, 2008
The Law School Innovation Blog describes a campaign for affordable textbooks. The campaign is collecting names (online, of course) to promote online textbooks that students can access for free, or that could be printed in various formats at low cost....

Congratulations, Tom McDonnell!

Posted on April 19, 2008
Thomas McDonnell, Chair of the Criminal Law/Legal Writing Program at Pace Law School, was elected as a Co-Chair of the American Society of International Law (ASIL)Teaching International Law Interest Group (TILIG). He replaces . . . me! I served as...

job opening at Idaho

Posted on April 19, 2008
The University of Idaho College of Law invites applications for the position of Legal Research and Writing Instructor for the 2008-09 academic year. The position is a one-year, full-time, contract position. The Legal Research and Writing course is a two-semester,...

J. ALWD call for articles on best practices in persuasion

Posted on April 19, 2008
The Journal of the Association of Legal Writing Directors (J. ALWD) invites submission of articles for its Fall 2009 Best Practices in Persuasion issue. The Journal encourages authors to submit articles addressing the "best practices" theme as well as articles...

Congratulations, Mimi Samuel!

Posted on April 17, 2008
Mimi Samuel of Seattle University has won the Bronson-Dillehay Award for Research, Scholarship, and Education in Procedural Justice. She won the award for her forthcoming article in the Brooklyn Law Review, called "Focus on Batson: Let the Cameras Roll...

Congratulations, Richard Neumann and Sheila Simon!

Posted on April 17, 2008
Richard K. Neumann, Jr. (Hofstra University) and Sheila Simon (Southern Illinois University) are co-authors of a new legal writing book called, oddly enough, Legal Writing. It is published by Aspen Publishers (part of Wolters Kluwer Law & Business). It looks...

roundtable lunch planned for legal writing profs of color

Posted on April 16, 2008
Faculty of color attending this summer's Legal Writing Institute conference in Indianapolis, Indiana, are invited to attend a roundtable lunch on Tuesday, July 15, 2008. The goals of the roundtable are to build community, to exchange ideas, and to start...

University of Denver revamps upper-level writing program

Posted on April 16, 2008
The faculty of the University of Denver's Sturm College of Law have voted to accept the recommendations of consultants and professors Ralph Brill of Chicago-Kent and Karin Mika of Cleveland-Marshall to not only revise its upper-level writing (ULW) curriculum, but...

more on and/or

Posted on April 16, 2008
A few days ago, we posted links to a couple of judicial opinions addressing the ambiguities created by the "and/or" conjunction. For the writing expert's take on the topic (and you can discern his position from the title), read Joe...

opening for visitor at Denver

Posted on April 16, 2008
The University of Denver Sturm College of Law invites applications for a one-year visitor teaching position in its first-year legal research and writing program, known as Lawyering Process, to begin in the 2008-2009 academic year. The opening is classified as...

More than 80,000 visits to the Legal Writing Prof Blog

Posted on April 15, 2008
A short time ago the Legal Writing Prof Blog had its 80,000 visit. Wow. Watch out, Tax Prof Blog! (And happy 4th year anniversary to you as well from the Legal Writing Prof Blog!) (mew)

list of Plain Language columns

Posted on April 15, 2008
From Joe Kimble of Thomas Cooley: Here's a list of almost 25 years' worth of Plain Language columns in the Michigan Bar Journal. Most of the more recent ones have links to the articles. Thanks, Joe!! (njs)

One of my favorite diversions from grading . . .

Posted on April 15, 2008
One of my favorite diversions from grading is an internet game called Travel IQ. In the game, you have to locate countries, capitals, cities, famous monuments, and other such things around the world. You can pick the whole world or...

a symbol for sharing

Posted on April 14, 2008
Legal writing professors are among the most generous of educators, freely sharing their ideas, opinions, and teaching materials via their organizations' listservs and the Legal Writing Institute's IdeaBank. From one of our podium brethen comes another idea for indicating one's...

Do You Subscribe to Perspectives?

Posted on April 14, 2008
Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing is now in its 16th edition. It is published and mailed for free by West Publishing ("as a service to the Legal Community," as it says on the front cover). It is a great...

Are You a Member of the Legal Writing Institute?

Posted on April 14, 2008
We don't assume that everyone who visits this Blog is a member of the Legal Writing Institute, but since membership in the LWI is free, there is no reason not to join. (And a reminder to faculty teaching legal research,...

contraction reaction

Posted on April 13, 2008
What's What is your take on the use of contractions in formal writing? The California Blog of Appeal wants to know. And if you disapprove in general, would you react badly to a brief that referred to an event occurring...

and/or revisited

Posted on April 13, 2008
About this time last year, blog co-editor Sue Liemer posted this item about an Eighth Circuit case discussing the problems created by the "and/or" construction. Now the Florida Supreme Court has issued an opinion that also addresses the ambiguities created...

New Blog for Clinicians

Posted on April 13, 2008
Hey, there's a new blog for clinicians. Have a look. Hat tip to Ruth Anne Robbins (mew)

Should We Involve Students When Drafting a Statement of Facts for a Memorandum Problem?

Posted on April 13, 2008
Karin Mika at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in Ohio has an interesting essay on the subject of Developing Internal Consistency in Writing Assignments by Involving Students in Problem Drafting. It appeared in the Winter 2008 issue of Perspectives: Teaching Legal...

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