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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

George Gopen wins the Golden Pen Award!

Posted on November 05, 2010
The President of the Legal Writing Institute, Ken Chestek, has just released this announcement: "It give me great pleasure to announce that the 2011 recipient of LWI's Golden Pen Award is Prof. George Gopen, Professor of English at Duke University....

Congratulations Sheila!

Posted on November 05, 2010
It's not every day that you get to type a blog post like this: Legal writing professor Sheila Simon is going to be the next Lieutenant Governor of the state of Illinois. As Sheila herself would say, woo hoo! To...

LWI One-Day Workshops (Mostly on December 3)

Posted on November 04, 2010
Here's a reminder about the Legal Writing Institute one-day workshops. Most of the workshops are on Friday December 3. One is on December 4 and another on December 10. The cost of the workshops is a modest $100, which goes...

visiting scholar in rhetoric and writing

Posted on November 04, 2010
Vermont Law School has posted a glowing description of Terri Phelps's visit there. The post notes that: "Her visit to VLS was funded by a grant from the Journal of the Association of Legal Writing Directors' Visiting Scholars in Rhetoric...

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Call for Proposals: Empire State 2011

Posted on November 02, 2010
From the Empire State Legal Writing Conference Planning Committee: CALL FOR PROPOSALS The Second Annual Empire State Legal Writing Conference will be held at the St. John?s University campus in lower Manhattan on Friday, May 13, 2011. We invite proposals...

Call for Proposals: Rocky Mountain 2011

Posted on November 02, 2010
From Sara Gordon at UNLV: The Eleventh Annual Rocky Mountain Legal Writing Conference will be held on March 25 & 26, 2011 at The University of Nevada Boyd School of Law in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Program Committee invites participants...

Postcard from the Edge (of the Country)

Posted on November 02, 2010
I just received a lovely postcard from the University of Oregon School of Law, highlighting six of its faculty members who teach legal writing: Elizabeth Frost Rebekah Hanley (soon going on sabbatical) Lance Long (visiting from Stetson) Megan McAlpin Joan...

LWI One Day Workshops in December (includes link to updated list of speaker names)

Posted on October 30, 2010
The Legal Writing Institute will hold 16 one-day workshops across the country. Most of the workshops are on Friday December 3. One is on December 4 and another on December 10. The cost of the workshops is a modest $100,...

Friday Fun: So You Want to Go to Law School

Posted on October 29, 2010
An attorney asks questions of a woman who is going to law school . . . Hat tip to Deborah Borman (mew)

Southeast Regional Legal Writing Conference

Posted on October 29, 2010
Call for Proposals 2011 Southeast Regional Legal Writing Conference Opening the Lens: Re-Visions in Legal Writing Teaching, Theory, & Practice Mercer University School of Law Macon, GA April 15-16, 2011 By ?opening the lens? to let in interdisciplinary theories and...

the five stages of grading

Posted on October 25, 2010
Everyone knows about the psychological stages of grieving. Well, not uncoincidentally, the stages of grading are much the same. Click here for the full story. hat tip: Sarah Klaper (spl) ?

Fellows Versus Faculty

Posted on October 25, 2010
PrawfsBlog is debating legal writing fellows versus legal writing faculty. Click here to read the post (and to add your own comments) to that discussion. Hat tip to Michael HIgdon (mew)

Applied Legal Storytelling -- Chapter 3!

Posted on October 24, 2010
Applied Legal Storytelling Call for Proposals LWI and CLEA are co-sponsoring the third biennial International Applied Storytelling Conference, July 8-10, 2011 at University of Denver, Sturm College of Law. This is a very collegial and supportive conference, and they welcome...

so you want to go to law school?

Posted on October 21, 2010
If you know someone contemplating going to law school, you might direct them to this link. You may laugh, and then again, you may cry. hat tip: Stephanie Allen (spl)

International Law Moot Court

Posted on October 19, 2010
Are you coaching the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition? Or serving as a judge? Or maybe you participated as a law student? There is a group on LinkedIn for Fans of the Philip C. Jessup International Law...

"unusually high quality" was the tip-off to plagiarism

Posted on October 18, 2010
A court has sanctioned an attorney after the "unusually high quality" of his brief raised questions as to its authorship. And sure enough, 17 of 19 pages were taken from a law review article. The attorney admitted what he had...

2nd annual Colonial Frontier Legal Writing Conference

Posted on October 18, 2010
The Second Colonial Frontier Legal Writing Conference will be held on Saturday, March 5, 2011, at the Duquesne University School of Law in Pittsburgh, PA. The theme of the conference will be The Arc of Advanced Legal Writing: From Theory...

procrastination explored

Posted on October 18, 2010
Our writing specialist just shared with me a New Yorker review (October 11, 1020, "Later: What does procrastination tell us about ourselves? by James Surowiecki) of a new book on procrastination, "The Thief of Time," edited by Chrisoula Andreou and...

What Does the LWI Have to Say to the ABA Standards Review Committee?

Posted on October 18, 2010
The Legal Writing Institute is an organization of nearly 2,700 legal writing professionals, most of whom work in U.S. law schools. The LWI has just submitted its views to the American Bar Association on the draft on measuring outcomes in...

D.C. LRW conference

Posted on October 16, 2010
The George Washington University Law School will be hosting the First Annual Capital Area Legal Writing Conference, February 25 - 26 in Washington, DC. Legal writing professionals from around the country -- even around the world -- are welcome to...

Classic Essays on Legal Advocacy

Posted on October 13, 2010
I recall pretty vividly a few times in my life when an unexpected gift arrived in the mail, because they were such pleasant surprises. Receiving a comp copy of a law book in the office mail usually does not rank...

what color is your pen?

Posted on October 12, 2010
For an article on how the color of the pen you use to grade papers makes a difference, see The pen is mightier than the word: Object priming of evaluative standards, by Abraham Rutchick, Michael Slepian, and Bennett Ferris. Here?s...

more tenure-track legal writing jobs

Posted on October 11, 2010
The John Marshall Law School in Atlanta is taking applications for tenure-track faculty appointments in legal skills, to begin August 1, 2011. Applicants must meet high standards of professional accomplishment and superior academic performance, as reflected by achievements such as...

AALS section secretary nominations

Posted on October 10, 2010
The AALS Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research, has announced a call for nominations for the office of Secretary for 2011. The Secretary prepares the AALS Section newsletter, which is published online twice annually. The Secretary automatically becomes the...

tenure-track legal writing job

Posted on October 07, 2010
UNIVERSITY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA DAVID A. CLARKE SCHOOL OF LAW (UDC-DCSL) invites applications to fill the tenure-track position of Director of Legal Writing.?We will consider exceptionally talented applicants at either the assistant or associate professor level...

Scribes Book Award Goes to "The Last Lawyer"

Posted on October 07, 2010
Scribes?The American Society of Legal Writers recently named The Last Lawyer: The Fight to Save Death Row Inmates as the best law book of the year. The Last Lawyer is the true story of a team of idealistic attorneys and...

LWI One-Day Workshops on December 3, 2010 (And one on Dec. 4th, and one on Dec. 10th!)

Posted on October 06, 2010
The Legal Writing Institute will hold one-day workshops at 16 locations across the country. Most of the workshops will be on Friday, December 3, 2010. One will be held on December 4th and one on December 10th. Here's the list...

cell phone solution

Posted on October 05, 2010
To see one way to handle the situation when a student?s cell phone goes off in class, click here.? Apparently there?s a federal judge in the Eastern District of California who has taken the same approach. hat tips: Karin Mika,...

new section 1983 decisions website

Posted on October 04, 2010
Info just received from UMKC: "In time for the opening of the Supreme Court?s new term, David Achtenberg, University of Missouri?Kansas City School of Law, is rolling out the Petition to Decision website. Petition to Decision is a comprehensive digital...

a quiz for first Monday

Posted on October 03, 2010
In honor of the new Supreme Court term beginning tomorrow, the Sunday issue of The Washington Post has several articles. The most fun feature is an interactive game challenging players to seat the justices on the bench in order of...

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