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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

finding scholarships via Twitter

Posted on August 11, 2009
Law students may be able to find more leads for financial assistance via a listing of 50 Tips and Tools to Find Scholarships on Twitter. Law professors who don't Twitter can learn a lot about the many things one can...

Are Textbooks Too Expensive?

Posted on August 10, 2009
Click here for a short rant on the high cost of an international law casebook. And once you read that post (on the International Law Prof Blog, please come back here to leave a comment on the Legal Writing Prof...

kudos, Michael Higdon

Posted on August 10, 2009
As he leaves UNLV (Boyd) to join the faculty at the University of Tennessee, we learn that Michael Higdon has been named the 2009 William S. Boyd School of Law Alumnus of the Year. Michael joined the UNLV faculty in...

the next SEALS conference

Posted on August 10, 2009
With this summer's SEALS conference just recently completed, the call for papers has already gone out for next summer's conference, which will take place from July 29 to August 5, 2010, at The Breakers, Palm Beach, Florida. Your submission may...

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writers workshop photo gallery

Posted on August 09, 2009
Click on the photos above to see legal writing professors hard at work during the LWI Writers Workshop. That final group photo was taken outdoors, with Mt. Hood in the background; it's not a studio backdrop. photos by: Ken Chestek...

LWI writers workshop success

Posted on August 09, 2009
The sixth annual LWI Writers Workshop took place July 25th through 27th, at The Resort at the Mountain, carved in the foothills of Mt. Hood, Oregon. A dozen legal writing professors who were working on law journal articles gathered with...

Yes, the Legal Writing Prof blog now has a fully functioning index

Posted on August 09, 2009
A big thank you to blogmeister extraordinaire Joe Hodnicki at the Law Librarian Blog (who, along with Paul Caron of the TaxProf Blog, are the hosts of the Law Professors Blog network) for fixing the blog bug that prevented us...

job opening at Arizona State

Posted on August 08, 2009
The Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University, invites applications for the full-time position of Clinical Professor of Law beginning with the 2010-2011 academic year. Responsibilities include teaching in the legal research and writing program...

director opening at Vanderbilt

Posted on August 08, 2009
Vanderbilt University Law School seeks applicants for a full-time, non-tenure-track faculty position as Director of Legal Research & Writing Program, with appropriate professorial title. Candidates should have substantial experience teaching in such a program and preferably would have experience directing...

More Friday fun - 10 rounds with Kindle versus the book

Posted on August 07, 2009
This is a really clever series of videos that pits the upstart challenger Kindle against the reigning champ, the book. It's a scheduled 10 round bout that's now in round three. Can the champ go the distance? Is Kindle a...

Is all the talk about more "practice oriented" law schools bad for students and the profession?

Posted on August 07, 2009
Here's an interesting and provocative blog post from Professor Michael Livingston of Rutgers-Camden School of Law who argues that all the current talk about reforming the law school curriculum to focus more on practice will widen the divide between the...

Another law firm hops onto the "apprenticeship" bandwagon

Posted on August 07, 2009
The law firm Day Pitney will move towards a summer apprenticeship program next year. According to an internal firm memo, the program is intended to be an eight-week course designed to prepare law students for the practice of law through...

Friday fun - if Facebook featured Shepards (or Keycite)

Posted on August 07, 2009
This one from Courtoons speaks for itself. Enjoy! Hat tip to Above the Law. I am the scholarship dude. (jbl)

Here's an index to help you find older blog posts

Posted on August 07, 2009
We appreciate our loyal readers and recognize there's a bug in the blog platform that prevents us from offering a fully functional index for older posts. While we continue to address this problem, here is a temporary fix - an...

One small law firm goes paperless leading to many cost and client advantages

Posted on August 07, 2009
According to this report from Law.com's Legal Tech column, a small Delaware firm that handles hundreds of social security benefit cases found that client hard files were outpacing its storage abilities as well as turning into the firm's major overhead...

Congratulations to Ruth Vance!

Posted on August 06, 2009
Ruth Vance has been named the recipient of the 2009 Distinguished Faculty Award at Valparaiso University School of Law. Ruth is an extraordinarily generous colleague, helping the field of legal writing in countless ways, large and small. She has previously...

Writing good cover letters for your article submissions

Posted on August 06, 2009
This one comes to us via our very good friend Raymond Ward at the (new) legal writer blog (sorry, Raymond, I wasn't receiving the feed from your excellent blog while I was away this summer). The original post is from...

Legal Writing Prof blog makes list of top 35 blogs edited by law professors

Posted on August 06, 2009
A big thank you to our good buddy Professor Paul Caron at the Tax Prof Blog for bringing this top 35 list to our attention. And an even bigger thanks to all of you, our loyal readers! Here's the complete...

Scholarship alert: Several articles on the precedential status of unpublished opinions

Posted on August 06, 2009
My good colleague at NSU, Professor David Cleveland, has either published, or is in the process of publishing, four articles that discuss various aspects of unpublished opinions. They've been generating a lot of cyber-buzz and we wanted you to know...

finding balance in legal education

Posted on August 05, 2009
Bruce Winick (University of Miami) has announced that the Association of American Law Schools has approved the petition for permanent section status for the Section on Balance in Legal Education. As Bruce, the section's Chair, put it, the section has...

Happy Birthday, Coleen Barger!

Posted on August 05, 2009
We wish a happy birthday to blog co-editor (and citation fan) Coleen Barger! Nancy, Sue, Mark, and Jim

One young associate to another: "Suck it up!"

Posted on August 05, 2009
In keeping with our military theme this afternoon (below), this story courtesy of Lawjobs.com is straight out of the Lee Ermey school of management. It's also consistent with this very popular story we recently ran about work-life balance in the...

Marines (and NFL) ban Twitter, Facebook and other social networking sites.

Posted on August 05, 2009
The few, the proud, the silent - at least according to this report from Cnet.news. Some segments of the military still feel that "loose lips sink ships" and hence have decided to make discretion mandatory in an age when most...

Top 100 blogs for law students

Posted on August 05, 2009
We'd previously published such a list many moons ago but since our good buddy Professor Paul Caron at the Tax Prof Blog recently saw fit to publish an undated list, we thought we'd pass it along to all of you....

Computers learn creative writing

Posted on August 05, 2009
Given the recent academic conference on the potential threat of artificial intelligence, can Skynet be far behind? Maybe not according to this story from the Chronicle of Higher Ed reporting that students at New York University this summer taught computers...

New Edition of Judge Aldisert's Book on Opinion Writing

Posted on August 04, 2009
Judge Ruggero J. Aldisert is one of the persons recognized by the Legal Writing Institute with its prestigious Golden Pen Award. He is Chief Judge Emeritus and Senior U.S. Circuit Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third...

APPEAL conference photo gallery

Posted on August 04, 2009
Click on these images to see legal writing professors and others exchanging ideas at the University of Pretoria last month. photos by Larry Cunningham & Cynthia Adams (spl)

successful APPEAL conference

Posted on August 04, 2009
From July 1 to 4, the Conference on Promoting the Teaching of Legal Writing in South Africa, organized by APPEAL, and supported by ALWD and LWI, took place at the University of Pretoria. At the conference, U.S. and African participants...

tenure-track and teaching fellow job openings at Thomas Jefferson School of Law

Posted on August 04, 2009
Thomas Jefferson School of Law anticipates hiring one or more persons to teach Legal Writing beginning in Fall 2010. Tenure-Track Position: Thomas Jefferson's legal writing program is taught primarily by tenure line faculty members. More information regarding the program can...

rules for using the reference desk

Posted on August 04, 2009
With the imminent arrivals of 1Ls, you are probably preparing syllabi, lesson plans, assignments, even orientation materials. You might want to add this animated video clip by Mary Rumsey (Minnesota), setting out her "rules" for using the reference desk...

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