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Legal Writing Prof Blog

By law professors Coleen M. Barger, Sue Liemer and Nancy Soonpaa

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calendaring

Posted on July 27, 2008
In a 1L skills course, we expect to teach legal research, legal analysis, and legal writing. Some of us also introduce our students to skills like client interviewing, negotiations, and oral argument. But sometimes we need to back up and...

Arthur Miller's views on the teaching of legal research

Posted on July 26, 2008
The Law Librarian Blog has posted two videos of NYU Professor Arthur Miller's recent statements about the declining quality of legal research (and its teaching) that were shown during a "town hall" meeting in Portland sponsored by West. He describes....

LWI Joins Boycott of Manchester Grand Hyatt

Posted on July 25, 2008
The Legal Writing Institute--one of the largest associations of legal academics with more than 2,100 members--has joined the boycott of the Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel in San Diego. Doug Manchester, owner of that hotel, had donated $125,000 to help put...

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Scribes Will Honor Scalia at the ABA Meeting in New York

Posted on July 25, 2008
The Scribes 2008 Annual Luncheon will honor U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia with a Lifetime-Achievement Award. Scribes will also present its book award and brief-writing awards. The event will be held during the ABA Annual Meeting in New York...

new titles for your late summer reading

Posted on July 25, 2008
Check out the following recently published articles -- probably one or more of interest to this blog's audience: Gerald Lebovits, Alifya V. Curtin & Lisa Solomon, Ethical Judicial Opinion Writing, 21 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 237 (2008). Richard J. Lazarus,...

quotable

Posted on July 25, 2008
"It's a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word." ~ Andrew Jackson (spl)

Kordesh named interim director at John Marshall

Posted on July 25, 2008
Maureen Straub Kordesh, who directed writing programs at The John Marshall Law School (Chicago) from 1996 to 2004 and Widener from 1991 to 1996, has been named as John Marshall's Interim Director of Lawyering Skills. Pictured here (in the photo...

100 "awesome" library videos

Posted on July 25, 2008
Accredited Degrees (a distance-learning blog) has listed 100 links to YouTube videos and tutorials on various library topics, from using online catalogs to RSS and blogging to discouraging children from bringing cookies into the library (the real, not the virtual,...

identifying the gap

Posted on July 24, 2008
At the AALL conference in Portland, Oregon last week, Thomson West issued a white paper entitled Partnership and Solutions for Preparing Job-Ready Attorneys. This paper is based on a survey of 224 people who are law firm librarians, development directors,...

"The Virtual Chase" closing shop

Posted on July 24, 2008
For fans of online legal research, one of the venerable (and educational) sites has been librarian Genie Tyburski's The Virtual Chase. Today Tyburski announced that after 12 years, she is shutting down the website so that she can devote her...

job openings at Windsor (Canada) and Roger Williams (Rhode Island)

Posted on July 24, 2008
The University of Windsor, Faculty of Law, has announced that two of the school's three existing Legal Research and Writing positions were converted from limited term contract positions to tenure track positions. The third position is scheduled to be converted...

your teaching potential

Posted on July 23, 2008
There is still plenty to report from the LWI conference last week, and we'll keep posting it here as our time allows. On the last day of the conference, Professor Mary Garvey Algero from Loyola-New Orleans and Professor Robin Wellford...

quotable

Posted on July 23, 2008
Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself?it is the occurring which is difficult. ~ Stephen Leacock (cmb)

Welcome Jim Levy, Scholarship Dude

Posted on July 23, 2008
As you can see in the column to the left, Jim Levy has officially joined the Legal Writing Prof Blog as a contributing editor. Although it doesn't say so on the left, he'll officially be known here as "the Scholarship...

Presenting Multiple Characters in a Statement of Facts

Posted on July 23, 2008
The New Legal Writer Blog has an interesting post on how to present a number of characters in a judicial decision or memorandum. The suggestion spares readers the dreaded parenthetical accompanying each character?s introduction (e.g. ?... Coastal Marine Service of...

Persuasion in Legal Writing and Lawyering

Posted on July 23, 2008
Wyoming meets New Jersey! Rutgers-Camden and the University of Wyoming College of Law will hold a one-day conference on Friday, September 19, 2008 on the topic of ?Persuasion in Legal Writing and Lawyering.? The conference will be a series of...

SEALS Conference

Posted on July 22, 2008
The Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) is about to have its annual meeting in Palm Beach, Florida, from July 27 to August 2, 2008. Click here for more information about the conference. I will be speaking on a panel...

the 2008 survey results are here!

Posted on July 22, 2008
The 2008 ALWD-LWI Survey Results are now available, just by clicking on the link in this sentence. Once again, over 90% of ABA accredited law schools responded to the survey, making this data highly reliable. It includes a wealth of...

LWI Conference Presentation - Here on the Blog! The Role of LRW in Pro Bono Service

Posted on July 21, 2008
Professor Prof. Deborah Schmedemann of the William Mitchell College of Law has generously shared her powerpoint presentation from the Legal Writing Institute Conference. In her presentation she shared the results of empirical research into pro bono service, involving more than...

teaching grammar

Posted on July 21, 2008
Everyone who has taught legal writing for a number years knows that, year by year, each incoming class arrives with weaker grammar skills. At the LWI conference last week, two professors presented ideas for helping students learn or recall the...

Religious Lawyering and Legal Writing

Posted on July 20, 2008
At the LWI conference last week, Professor Ted Becker from the University of Michigan gave a thought-provoking presentation on Religious Lawyering and Legal Writing, or, Do Religious Perspectives Help Teach Students Anything about IRAC? He first gave the audience a...

Links to LWI Conference Handouts

Posted on July 19, 2008
Here is a link to the handout that Prof. Joseph Kimble distributed during his presentation at the LWI Conference. Techniques for Better Legal Drafting: Lessons from the New Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. (Note: click on the columns for September...

LWI Conference Photos

Posted on July 19, 2008
Professor Karen Mika of the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law did a magnificent job in her remarks on Monday evening when announcing the LeClercq Courage Award, which was presented to Ralph Brill and Molly Lien. . Karen sent me these photos...

Send a Letter

Posted on July 19, 2008
Suzanne Rowe of the University of Oregon posted a message reminded those who attended the Legal Writing Institute Conference to write a quick letter. She suggested doing one of these: Pick your favorite presentation, and tap out a short note...

poster presentations at LWI, take three

Posted on July 19, 2008
Chris Rollins, who presented her poster on Thursday afternoon, has asked that her poster-- Download rollins_posters.pdf -- and handouts-- Download handouts_lwi_2008_rollins.doc -- be made available to those who are interested. Her topic was how to teach CREAC to all types...

LWI Conference Posts

Posted on July 19, 2008
There are MANY posts from the Legal Writing Institute Conference, including panel discriptions, photos, and links to handouts. To see them, click on the weekly archive for the week of July 13, 2008. Click here or click on the link...

poster presentations at LWI, take two

Posted on July 18, 2008
Jennifer Horn (Texas Tech) discusses her poster presentation, "Not-So-Magnificent Obsession: Performance vs. Professionalism." Her research focused on the way that individuals approach learning (with a learning orientation or a performance orientation) and how a student's orientation shapes the reaction to...

reunion picture of Nairobi conference participants

Posted on July 18, 2008
Here's a reunion picture of American and African law professors who attended the March 2007 skills conference for African legal academics in Nairobi and/or are members of APPEAL, an interest group formed after the conference. The fund-raising efforts and donations...

said what?

Posted on July 18, 2008
From an actual sheriff's office's motion for contempt for failure to pay after a sheriff's sale: ?That afterwards, the said Sheriff having duly made return of said writ with the report by him of said sale to the said court,...

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