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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

On Twitter - "It's a man's world!"

Posted on June 05, 2009
According to a new study by Harvard, unlike other social networking sites, men tend to have more followers on Twitter and also tend to have more same gender reciprocal relationships than do women. Further, 90% of Twitter content is generated...

final official report from Lone Star . . .

Posted on June 05, 2009
As the day ended and the local/regional participants headed off to the airport to catch their flights home, our participants from states such as New York, Illinois, and Minnesota were invited to choose from one of three West-Texas-themed dinner excursions...

report #8 from Lone Star

Posted on June 05, 2009
Our last two presenters of the day spoke on quite different topics: developing an appellate brief problem based on the rules of evidence and the uses and implications of social networking sites. Robert Holland (South Texas College of Law), Building...

report #7 from Lone Star

Posted on June 05, 2009
After lunch, Sonia Bychkov Green (at left in photo) and Mary Nagel (at right) (The John Marshall Law School) spoke on "Drop and give me 15 . . . minutes of argument.": Channeling Tom Landry for (Moot Court) Coaching Success....

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report #6 from Lone Star

Posted on June 05, 2009
Our luncheon speaker was Justice Ann McClure of the 8th Court of Appeals in El Paso. After having mingled with the group since the evening before, she had an excellent sense of her audience! Justice McClure spoke on "Appellate Advocacy...

report #5 from Lone Star

Posted on June 05, 2009
Our next two concurrent sessions featured a discussion of academic support and of an integrated LRW program. Marta Miller (Texas Wesleyan) described her presentation as follows: This presentation will introduce and provide instruction on how to implement a one-to-one peer...

report #4 from Lone Star

Posted on June 05, 2009
After our break, we had several concurrent sessions. Michaela Cashen of SMU presented on using Word's Table of Authorities feature in brief writing. As she described her presentation, Using Microsoft Word?s automated TOA feature, Michaela Cashen will demonstrate how to...

Global Legal Skills Conference

Posted on June 04, 2009
The fourth Global Legal Skills Conference (GLS IV) starts this afternoon at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington D.C. and continues through Saturday. (mew)

Tips for a successful summer clerkship you can pass along to your students

Posted on June 03, 2009
These come to us courtesy of the New York Law Journal. As for work assignments, make sure to double and triple check the details. Use spell check and compare assignments to other similar work product in the document management system....

Tech advice - how to deal with corrupt documents

Posted on June 03, 2009
This is too technical for me to summarize in a line or two. So if you're interested in learning how to better deal with the dreaded "this document is corrupt" prompt, read on. I am the scholarship dude. (jbl)

One hi-tech way to enforce the ABA's attendance rule - track students with iPhones

Posted on June 03, 2009
One Japanese school is already doing it - using the iPhone's built-in GPS technology to track students' whereabouts and thus prevent absenteeism. Could this be the end of circulating attendance sheets? Read the whole story right here. I am the...

Classroom technology alert: Some profs consider free blogs better alternative to commercial coursepages

Posted on June 03, 2009
Most law profs who maintain coursepages use either Westlaw's TWEN product or LexisNexis's Blackboard. Well, some undergraduate profs who also use Blackboard are questioning whether blogs can more efficiently perform the same functions as the stuff made by the big...

Chicago associates think $100k pay cut in exchange for 12 months of guaranteed work is good deal

Posted on June 03, 2009
In another sign 'o the economic times for recent law grads, one BigLaw Chicago firm has offered junior associates guaranteed employment for one year as in-house counsel for the firm's clients in exchange for a $100,000 pay cut. As the...

report #4 from Lone Star

Posted on June 03, 2009
Saturday morning started off with a trio from Arkansas, Karen Koch, Kim Coats, and Kathryn Sampson, who talked about using a "test issue" to assess students' progress towards writing independence. In their words, How much guidance should a first year...

LWI Conference on Marco Island

Posted on June 03, 2009
Marco Island is lovely. It will be a fantastic location for next year's Legal Writing Institute Conference. Proposals for presentations at the 2010 Conference are due in less than two weeks, on June 15, 2009. Click here for an earlier...

chip precedent

Posted on June 02, 2009
The Brits are not the only ones interested in the provenance of Pringles. A federal district court held similarly in Potato Chip Institute v. General Mills, 333 F. Supp. 173 (D. Neb. 1971). (Potato chips have institutes? Who knew?) hat...

on the strict construction of "potato chip"

Posted on June 01, 2009
It took three levels of British courts to determine that a Pringle is a potato chip, which apparently matters because of taxes. You can read the New York Times report here. And then you can use it to explain to...

Northwest Regional Legal Writing Conference

Posted on June 01, 2009
Registration is now open for the Northwest Regional Legal Writing Conference, which will take place in Portland, Oregon, on August 28 and 29, 2009. The conference organizers are encouraging everyone who plans to attend to please register as soon as...

Do we undermine ourselves by using the term "Legal Writing Profs" rather than "law teachers?"

Posted on May 31, 2009
Author of Best Practices in Legal Education and practicum expert (I don't want to call him a "clinician") Professor Roy Stuckie seems to suggest so according to his recent post on the Best Practices for Legal Education blog. As he...

Librarian sues Facebook for failing to protect users from computer viruses

Posted on May 31, 2009
It might make a good writing hypothetical if you change the language of the user's agreement to omit the limitation on liability that Facebook includes for purposes of preventing suits like this. Or, you could have students research and write...

The skinny on law school cheating

Posted on May 31, 2009
The National Law Journal reports that according to a 2006 study, 45% of law students admit to cheating at least once in the past year. And while, according to this source, the percentage of law students who cheat has remained...

How well do attorneys use technology to "teach" their case to the jury?

Posted on May 31, 2009
Trial lawyers, like teachers, are trying to help jurors both understand the case before them as well as persuade jurors that one party's position is the better than the other. If you're with me so far, then you might find...

Challenging the stereotype of male students - "I need love and affection, not the house of correction!"

Posted on May 31, 2009
Granted, a white male who raises gender issues is like playing hopscotch in a minefield while blindfolded - it won't take long to set off the explosions. Casting caution to the wind, here's a very interesting story from Inside Higher...

Report #3 from Lone Star

Posted on May 31, 2009
After a fajitas dinner, Karen Mika led the group in "Legal Writing Fun and Games." Here is her description of her presentation: This presentation will demonstrate the game "Legal Apples," an offshoot of the popular game "Apples to Apples." In...

report #2 from Lone Star

Posted on May 31, 2009
After Rob's presentation, everyone moved to the Lanier Center Atrium for a drinks and TexMex reception, followed by a pre-dinner greeting from Tech's own Dean Walter Huffman. In welcoming everyone, he recalled an incident from his first semester of law...

report from Lone Star

Posted on May 31, 2009
The Lone Star Legal Research & Writing Conference started on Friday afternoon with a presentation from Texas Tech's Director of Advocacy Programs, Rob Sherwin. Rob described his program as follows: Moot court is among the oldest of institutions in American...

AALS Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research

Posted on May 31, 2009
Did you miss the Spring 2009 Newsletter for the Association of American Law Schools Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research? Click here for a copy! Mark E. Wojcik, Secretary of the AALS Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research

Judgepedia

Posted on May 30, 2009
I'm not quite sure what to make of this. It's a wiki about judges. Click here to visit Judgepedia. (mew)

Graduation: It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye

Posted on May 29, 2009
Here's a legal writing hypothetical for you. The Chronicle of Higher Education is reporting on the dangers of the traditional mortarboard toss at graduation. Apparently, someone did indeed almost lose an eye as the result of a flying mortarboard. Thankfully,...

Scholarship alert: "Training field supervisors to be efficient and effective critics of student writing"

Posted on May 29, 2009
This article, by Professor Bernadette Feeley of U. Suffolk Law School, is from a conference called "Externships 4: A Bridge to Practice." It's available at 15 Clinical Law Review 211 (2009). From the abstract: This article discusses how law student...

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