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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

Happy Law Day!

Posted on May 01, 2010
Happy "Law Day" to all of our readers! Nancy, Sue, Coleen, Mark, and Jim

Travel Options for Marco Island

Posted on April 30, 2010
If (like me) you haven't yet finalized your travel arrangements for the LWI Conference on Marco Island, here is a link to our earlier post about travel options to get there. (mew) Photo of the Marco Island Resort by Suzanne...

Tell your students to keep in mind the cost of commercial legal research

Posted on April 29, 2010
Because you don't want them to run into this problem with their first employer; a partner having a conniption because some associate did an inefficient search that requires the firm to write off a large Wexis bill. Our good buddy...

Guess How Much the Fourth Edition of the ALWD Manual Weighs?

Posted on April 29, 2010
I was an early fan of the ALWD manual as a substitute for the Bluebook. But I've just received the fourth edition of the ALWD Manual and my first impression is that it has almost become a monster. It is...

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legal writing professors on ABA site teams

Posted on April 28, 2010
The office of the ABA Consultant on Legal Education recently mailed out its annual report for academic year 2008-2009. Among the items reported were listings of the site teams who visited law schools on fact finding missions as part of...

More than 300 People Have Already Registered for the LWI Conference at Marco Island

Posted on April 28, 2010
Here's an update on the Legal Writing Institute Summer Conference -- more than 300 people have taken advantage of the early bird registration fees and already registered for the LWI Conference at Marco Island, Florida. That conference begins on Sunday...

congratulations are in order

Posted on April 27, 2010
Washburn University School of Law has granted tenure to legal writing director extraordinaire Lyn Goering. She has been a force of nature within the legal writing community, quickly joining the new generation of legal writing leaders when she joined our...

Scholarship alert: "Developing a comprehensive approach to teaching lawyering skills: a response to the MacCrate Report, fifteen years later"

Posted on April 27, 2010
This article come to us from Professor Scott Thompson of Liberty University School of Law and can be found at 3 Liberty U.L. Rev. 47 (2009). From the introduction: In 1992, the American Bar Association Section of Legal Education and...

A "Virtual Legal Writing Conference"

Posted on April 26, 2010
On Thursday April 29, 2010, Stetson University College of Law's Project for Excellence in Legal Communication will present what it is calling a "Virtual Legal Writing Conference: Annual Scholarship Highlights--New Voices and New Ideas in Legal Communication...

The future of legal education according to HLS Dean Martha Minow (and what it may mean for LW Profs)

Posted on April 26, 2010
Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow recently addressed the HLS community in a speech titled "The Past, Present, and Future of Legal Education" during which she described reforms presently contemplated by legal educators as historical significant as the case method...

one approach to bridging the gap

Posted on April 26, 2010
In "Skills Without Stigma: Using the JURIST Method to Teach Legal Research and Writing", Abigail Salisbury, the Executive Director of JURIST, offers an approach to bridge the gap between law school legal writing programs and legal writing on the job....

Summer Conference on Teaching Law Practice Across the Curriculum (and a list of articles from the current issue of "The Law Teacher")

Posted on April 25, 2010
The Institute for Law Teaching and Learning Summer Conference will be held June 17-18, 2010 at Washburn University School of Law in Topeka, Kansas. (This is just before theLegal Writing Institute Conference in Marco Island.) The Institute for Law Teaching...

Summer Conference on Teaching Law Practice Across the Curriculum (and a list of articles from the current issue of "The Law Teacher")

Here's an argument that writing-across-the-curriculum helps faculty too

Posted on April 25, 2010
Although still not prevalent in law schools, the writing-across-the-curriculum movement has served students very well at the undergraduate level for the past 30 years or so. If you're trying to convince your faculty to move in that direction, here's a...

LWI Conference in Marco Island

Posted on April 23, 2010
Do you still need to register for the Legal Writing Institute Conference at Marco Island? Click here for more information. (mew)

LWI President-Elect Ken Chestek

Posted on April 22, 2010
Ken Chestek (Indiana University of Indianapolis) will be a Visiting Lawyering Process Professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law in the Fall 2010 Semester. Ken will be teaching two sections of the first-year LRW course at that...

new ALWD officers and directors

Posted on April 22, 2010
The following legal writing directors were elected to lead the Association of Legal Writing Directors in the next academic year: President-elect: J. Lyn Entrikin Goering, Washburn University School of Law Treasurer: Wanda Temm, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law...

A new study explaining how successful law students read

Posted on April 22, 2010
LW Professor Leah Christensen has authored several articles on the reading strategies of successful law students including her most recent article we blogged about a few weeks ago here. Earlier this week, the online ABA Journal sought Professor Christensen's comment...

being prepared

Posted on April 21, 2010
This transcript of a case Download Case from Florida offers a great teaching moment about preparation, among other issues. It will also fit well with teaching first semester civil procedure SJ motions. The judge and one lawyer are prepared. The...

The Second Draft celebrates LWI's 25th

Posted on April 21, 2010
The Legal Writing Institute's 25th anniversary is celebrated in the Spring 2010 edition of its newsletter, The Second Draft. The articles remind us of how far things have come in the professional academic field of legal writing in the last...

Talk about typos! This is a big one.

Posted on April 21, 2010
Thanks to our good buddy Raymond Ward at the (new) legal writer blog for bringing this one to our attention courtesy of the "You Don't Say" blog. The Australian arm (or is that fin?) of Penguin Books had to recall...

A punchlist of law student writing errors

Posted on April 21, 2010
This one comes to us from our sister publication The Legal Profession Blog via a tip of the hat to Above the Law. In the post, Suffolk Law Prof Jeff Lipshaw tells us: I have just gone through a difficult...

legal writing at the forefront of multi-cultural legal education

Posted on April 20, 2010
Joahnna Dennis at Vermont Law School has written an article challenging legal writing professors on another front: "Ensuring a Multicultural Educational Experience in Legal Education: Start with the Legal Writing Classroom". Here's her abstract: "Legal educators have an obligation to...

Expert tips on excellent oral advocacy

Posted on April 20, 2010
SCOTUS Justice Scalia and Black's Law Dictionary EIC and President of LawProse offered the following advice to those interested in improving their advocacy skills: "practice, practice, practice." Both were plenary speakers during last week's National Legal Malpractice Conference sponsored by...

are law schools dinosaurs?

Posted on April 19, 2010
Over on the idealawg, Stephanie Allen continues to report on a recent conference that looked at how behind the times our law schools are now. Some of this gloom and doom appears to be coming from people who are looking...

LWI Writers Workshop

Posted on April 19, 2010
There are still a few openings in the LWI's Writers Workshop, being held June 26th and 27th in Marco Island, Florida, right before the LWI bi-ennial conference. This workshop is open to any member of the Legal Writing Institute who...

Congratulations, Susan Stuart!

Posted on April 18, 2010
Valparaiso has awarded Susan Stuart the Swygert Teaching Fellowship, a two-year appointment established to "reward individual faculty members for achieving and demonstrating the highest standards in teaching and in scholarship and the advancement of knowledge, and to encourage the attainment...

2009 Scribes student article winner nabs prestigious Bristow Fellowship

Posted on April 16, 2010
Congratulations to Michelle Renee Shamblin, 2009 LSU Law Grad and winner of the Scribes Law Review Award for best written student article on receiving one of the 2010 Bristow Fellowships to work in the U.S. Solicitor General's Office. The Bristow,...

quotable

Posted on April 16, 2010
"If you think that you can think about a thing, inextricably attached to something else, without thinking of the thing it is attached to, then you have a legal mind." ~ Henry C. Blinn

spot for a legal writing article

Posted on April 15, 2010
Every year, the Mercer Law Review reserves a spot for an article on a topic related to the teaching, study, or practice of legal writing. The Law Review editors are now seeking articles on legal writing topics, and they welcome...

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