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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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Law prof uses wiki in lieu of traditional textbook

Posted on July 21, 2009
The Chronicle of Higher Ed is reporting that University of Iowa law professor Lea VanderVelde has chosen to use a wiki as her employment law text rather than a more traditional textbook: When Ms. VanderVelde was preparing to teach a...

The world's smallest law office?

Posted on July 21, 2009
Let's file this one under "Friday Fun - a few days early." This may be the world's smallest law office - in Okeechobee, Florida at the corner of 3rd and Park, to be exact. Sent to me by a colleague,...

legal storytelling

Posted on July 21, 2009
Tomorrow evening starts another summertime conference, Applied Legal Storytelling Chapter Two: Once Upon a Legal Story. Chapter One took place in 2007, at City Law School in London, and was so successful, the host organization, the Legal Writing Institute, has...

new jargon for the field

Posted on July 20, 2009
Not surprising for a group as adept at metaphor as legal writing professors, the ALWD conference has left in its wake some new jargon for our field: The first term that seemed to catch on like wildfire was "Jack," used...

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what about foreign citations?

Posted on July 20, 2009
While at the ALWD conference this weekend, I got a copy of the Guide to Foreign and International Legal Citations (Aspen 2009). If you are a U.S. lawyer or legal scholar who often needs to cite to non-U.S. cases and...

ALWD conference pictures . . . .

Posted on July 20, 2009
Left, Craig Smith (Vanderbilt)) and Kristin Gerdy (BYU) pose at the Liberty Memorial, site of Friday night's dinner. Right, Mary Beth Beazley (Ohio State) and Nancy Soonpaa (Texas Tech) enjoying a fine dinner inside at the World War I Museum....

ALWD conference pictures . . .

Posted on July 20, 2009
Linda Fowler and Gail Stephenson of Southern with the Jazz Cow in front of the Jazz Museum before the closing dinner of ALWD.

the other ALWD conference hot topic

Posted on July 19, 2009
In addition to experiential learning, the other hot topic heard throughout the ALWD conference was outcome assessments. The new interest in outcome assessments is driven in part by the ABA's broad review of all its standards and the philosophies behind...

the ALWD conference plenary

Posted on July 18, 2009
The ALWD conference started in earnest this morning with a warm greeting from UMKC School of Law dean, Ellen Suni, who once upon a time was a legal writing program director. Her comments were right on the mark, and she...

live blogging from ALWD Conference: Experiential Learning

Posted on July 18, 2009
At the ALWD Conference taking place this weekend at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Maria Crist (Dayton) is presenting on experiential learning. The components of experiential learning are that learner are willing to be actively involved, able to reflect on...

Continuing the Silver Anniversary Celebration of the Legal Writing Institute: Another LWI History Video

Posted on July 18, 2009
Here is another video from Karin Mika in the series of videos that is documenting the history of the Legal Writing Institute. Click here to read more about that project (and to see another video in this series). In the...

supervising upper-division student writing

Posted on July 17, 2009
Andrea McArdle (CUNY) is leading a discussion about the ABA upper-level writing standard, 302(a)(3), requiring "at least one . . . rigorous writing experience after the first year." Andrea referred to extensive data from the 2007 ALWD/LWI Survey of Legal...

liveblogging from ALWD conference

Posted on July 17, 2009
In a breakout session led by Anthony Niedwiecki (Nova), participants are discussing ways to build relationships with faculty and administration. Session attendees are discussing ways they are improving their visibility and educating faculty colleagues about the legal writing programs...

One more time, with feeling: "Teaching with Technology: Is the pedagogical Fulcrum Shifting?"

Posted on July 17, 2009
The New York Law School faculty is on fire this week. This article is by Professor Camille Broussard and can be found at 53 N.Y.L. Sch. L. Rev. 903 (2008/09) Technology continues to change the way we teach law, practice...

Scholarship alert part II: "The Decline and Fall of the Dominant Paradigm: Trustworthiness of Case Reports in the Digital Age"

Posted on July 17, 2009
This one also comes to us from a New York Law School professor - this time Professor William Mills - and can be found at 53 N.Y.L. Sch. L. Rev. 917 (2008/09). From the introduction: It is axiomatic that our...

Scholarship alert: "Podcasts, PowerPoint, and Pedagogy: Using Technology to Teach the Part-Time Student"

Posted on July 17, 2009
By Professor Joyce Saltalamachia of New York Law School and published at 53 N.Y.L. Sch. L. Rev. 893 (2008/09). From the abstract: This essay will explore the use of various types of technology in order to assist part-time first-year law...

One BigLaw firm announces no OCI this fall and no summer program next year

Posted on July 16, 2009
National firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius just announced that it will not be conducting any on-campus interviews this fall and thus has cancelled next year's summer associate program due to lack of work. You can read the rest of the...

ALWD conference under way!

Posted on July 16, 2009
The bi-iennial conference of the Association of Legal Writing Directors started this afternoon, at the University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law. The ALWD Board of Directors and officers met for over two hours to take care of...

More advice to pass along to your students about how to find a law job

Posted on July 16, 2009
The job market for lawyers is terrible so our students need every bit of advice we can give them. A place to start is the The Legal Blog Watch which has compiled advice from several sources here. Harvard Law School...

Kindle law books go for a higher price

Posted on July 15, 2009
The amazing reading hardware from Amazon, Kindle, has begun to make some legal publications available to subscribers. But not for the same kind of discount that its other e-books deliver to readers. According to a July 10, 2009, story from...

AALS call for scholarly papers

Posted on July 15, 2009
Just a reminder, the deadline is August 15, 2009, to submit a paper to the AALS call for scholarly papers. Legal writing professors don't generally submit papers, but as the saying goes, "you have to be in it to win...

Georgia Supreme Court to decide if lawn mower is motor vehicle

Posted on July 14, 2009
Attention all LRW profs - this case has got "good hypo material" written all over it. After all, a lawn mower, like a car, has an engine, four wheels, brakes and a throttle. The question is being raised in the...

Salary gap widens between law grads headed for BigLaw and everyone else

Posted on July 14, 2009
So reported the online ABA Journal recently. Here are the details: A survey of the class of 2008 shows 23 percent of the graduates made $160,000, the amount the big law firms paid to newly minted associates, according to a...

Professor Sarah Ricks interviewed by Politifact.com re: Sotomayor's role in Ricci decision

Posted on July 14, 2009
Rutgers professor Sarah Ricks gave an online interview last Friday to the website Politifact.com offering balance to political pundit Anne Coulter's criticism of Sotomayor's role in the Second Circuit's handling of the Ricci case, recently overturned by SCOTUS...

Are there too many law schools turning out too many law grads?

Posted on July 12, 2009
It's a question the Legal Writing Prof blog has been asking for months. The New York Times picked up on the story back in March and now the most widely read university-level educational journal, The Chronicle of Higher Ed., is...

The blogosphere debate on the adequacy of law school training

Posted on July 12, 2009
The discussion begun by Paul Lippe, founder of the attorney networking site Legal OnRamp, criticizing the adequacy of law school training, which we first reported here, has finally gained traction and is now running hotter than a nitro-methane funny car...

What some law schools are doing to help grads find jobs

Posted on July 12, 2009
The Minnesota Lawyer is reporting the measures four schools in that state are taking to help current students maintain morale and help recent grads find jobs. Among the strategies: 1. School funded, post-JD fellowships for graduates who haven't found jobs...

Justice Ginsburg discusses the importance of a woman's perspective on the Supreme Court

Posted on July 12, 2009
In a Q & A in today's magazine section of the NYT's, Justice Ginsburg talks about the importance of having women on the SCOTUS both in terms of public perception and influence on the decision-making. Her remarks were made in...

Ward Churchill gets "zip" - Judge throws out jury verdict

Posted on July 12, 2009
In case you haven't already heard, in a case we've been following for months that arguably tested the limits of academic freedom (at least according to the plaintiff), the Colorado trial judge that presided over the Ward Churchill case has...

And you thought you knew Haiku . . . .

Posted on July 12, 2009
By way of explanation for our loyal blog readers who are not legal writing profs, a couple of times each year - usually around grading season - a few LRW profs post haikus on the Legal Writing Institute listserv. Others...

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