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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

David Thomson, Legal Writing Director . . . and Photographer!

Posted on April 13, 2008
Dave Thomson, recently appointed as director of the writing program at the Sturm College of Law at the University of Denver, is a photographer of some quite beautiful outdoor scenes (and some indoor scenes, too from London). Click here to...

LWI Indianapolis -- Advice for New (and Experienced) Panel Chairs

Posted on April 13, 2008
The Chronicle of Higher Education has some advice for panel chairs. Tracy McGaugh suggests that it might be a good article for those who will be chairing panels for the first time in Indianapolis. I think that the article has...

legal writing consultants

Posted on April 12, 2008
A new article by Joan Blum and Kathleen Elliott Vinson, Teaching in Practice: Legal Writing Faculty as Expert Writing Consultants to Law Firms, explores an interesting and growing trend. According to the article abstract on SSRN, the authors address not...

peculiarities of court dress

Posted on April 12, 2008
If you've ever wondered why judges wear robes--and in some countries, wigs--you may enjoy following the links below to learn something of the history of these traditions. http://www.cardozo.yu.edu/life/spring1999/wigs/ http://www.edeandravenscroft.co...

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reducing citation anxiety

Posted on April 12, 2008
Let's see . . . is it S.W.3d or S.W. 3d? Do I need to include the cert. denied history? Do citations look the same in footnotes and text? Aaaarrrgghhhh! As the due dates approach for law students' final semester...

No Rodney Dangerfields at the "ideal law school"

Posted on April 12, 2008
Responding to an invitation by the Madisonian blog to describe the "ideal law school," UNLV Professor Nancy Rapoport (formerly dean at Nebraska and at Houston) contributed a post titled, "What kind of faculty would I want in the ideal law...

LWI Conference Preview - Part 1

Posted on April 11, 2008
The Legal Writing Institute Biennial Conference is the single most important legal writing event in our community. Over the next few weeks, we'll post descriptions of some of the events, presentations, and panels that will be given in Indianapolis. The...

Milani Brief Writing Competition

Posted on April 11, 2008
Mercer University School of Law and the American Bar Association host an annual writing competition in honor of Mercer?s former legal writing professor, Adam Milani. The competition is one of the few student competitions for brief writing rather than for...

Thank You to Our Readers

Posted on April 11, 2008
Visits to the Legal Writing Prof Blog have increased tremendously in the past few months. We thank you for visiting and hope to continue providing you with interesting posts. Please remember that the Legal Writing Prof Blog is an authorized...

Computers in the Classroom

Posted on April 10, 2008
The Chicago Daily Law Bulletin is reporting today that the University of Chicago Law School "has removed Internet access in most of its classrooms because of a growing problem of students surfing the Web on laptops during lectures." Read more...

more from Rocky Mountain . . .

Posted on April 09, 2008
Another fine presentation at the Rocky Mountain conference: Hillary Burgess, an adjunct professor at Rutgers School of Law - Camden and Rowan University, presented " Facilitating Structured Peer Group Work and Enhancing Thorough and Efficient Grading Using Wiki Technology in...

a better way to proofread

Posted on April 09, 2008
Don't you just hate it when you have e-mailed, filed, or otherwise dispatched some piece of writing, only to spot a glaring error that you overlooked? Or if your job description includes reviewing the work of others (ahem, legal writing...

LWI Conferences

Posted on April 09, 2008
The Legal Writing Institute Site Evaluation Committee has announced a fantastic conference schedule for the upcoming years: Indianapolis in 2008, Marco Island, Florida in 2010, and Desert Springs, California in 2012. Here's the details for each of those conferences (jot...

Law School Rankings and "The Rankings Czar"

Posted on April 09, 2008
The ABA Journal has a cover story in its latest issue about the "Rankings Czar" at U.S. News and World Report. You may have seen the print version of the article already. The electronic version of the article has comments...

AALS - Open Source Proposal Deadine Approaching

Posted on April 08, 2008
Open source programs are those that are not sponsored by any Section of the Association of American Law Schools. It is meant to provide presentation opportunities for faculty members who have an innovative topic that they would like to present...

you know you're getting old when . . .

Posted on April 08, 2008
you cheerfully ask your students to pull out a piece of paper for a quick exercise and most of them not only have no paper, but no writing implement either. I guess it WAS a heartening sign of collegiality when...

Justice Scalia to appear on "60 Minutes"

Posted on April 08, 2008
According to veteran court-watcher Tony Mauro, it's now certain that Justice Antonin Scalia will appear-- "voluntarily," says Mauro--on the CBS news program "60 Minutes" on April 27, 2008. Correspondent Lesley Stahl will interview the Justice about his new book, co-authored...

welcome to new officers and directors of ALWD (photos, too)

Posted on April 08, 2008
The Association of Legal Writing Directors has announced the results of its recent elections for officers and members of the Board of Directors. The new President-elect is Associate Professor of Law Mary Beth Beazley of The Ohio State University, Moritz...

more from Rocky Mountain . . .

Posted on April 07, 2008
Here's a summary of yet another fine Rocky Mountain presentation: "Joe Williams' Little Red Schoolhouse Goes to Law School." Hillary Burgess, an adjunct professor at Rutgers School of Law - Camden and Rowan University, presented "Little Red Schoolhouse Goes to...

Election Results for LWI Board of Directors (with photos!)

Posted on April 07, 2008
The Legal Writing Institute announced the names of those who were elected to four-year terms on the LWI Board of Directors. 24 persons were candidates for the LWI Board, in one of the largest LWI elections ever held. Here are...

getting sued

Posted on April 07, 2008
J. Craig Williams, the author of one of my favorite blogs, May It Please the Court, has written a new book (coming out in June) that is certain to get a lot of attention. Its title? How to Get Sued....

recently published works of interest

Posted on April 05, 2008
Recent publications of note: Robert F. Blomquist, Concurrence, Posner-Style: Ten Ways to Look at the Concurring Opinions of Judge Richard A. Posner, 71 Alb. L. Rev. 37 (2008). Jane Kent Gionfriddo, Thinking like a Lawyer: The Heuristics of Case Synthesis,...

Appellate Briefs - A Reader's Perspective

Posted on April 02, 2008
It's often difficult to put yourself in the reader's shoes, especially if been working for a while on only one side of a case. That's one of the messages that Professor David Sorkin of The John Marshall Law School includes...

great changes at John Marshall (Atlanta)

Posted on April 02, 2008
Michelle Butts of John Marshall (Atlanta) announces the following exciting developments: The JMLS faculty recently voted to put all Legal Skills faculty members onto the tenure-track. Last week, the JMLS Board of Directors officially approved the status change...

AALS Names New Executive Director

Posted on April 01, 2008
The Association of American Law Schools announced today that its next Executive Director will be Susan Westerberg Prager, a former dean of the University of California at Los Angeles. Her appointment will become effective in September. She will succeed Carl...

ideal vacation spot for legal writing profs

Posted on April 01, 2008
You've been grading papers, conducting conferences, organizing legions of judges for oral arguments. You need a vacation. And we have just the place for you . . . the islands of San Serriffe. Wikitravel has an excellent article devoted to...

legal writing software

Posted on March 31, 2008
Want to transform your ordinary writing into legal writing? This software will help!! It "helps you write any legal document with the correct terminology. By adding legal-based terminology, WhiteSmoke Legal writing version makes your writing more precise, persuasive and credible...

Teach Law in Asia

Posted on March 31, 2008
Brady Coleman submitted this entry: Beginning September 1, 2008, teach law at one of Asia's most elite graduate law schools, in Seoul, Korea. Expanding global campus in Seoul, Europe, China and the U.S. See www.tlbu.ac.kr Language of instruction (and all...

U.S. News and World Report Rankings - Legal Writing

Posted on March 31, 2008
U.S. News and World Report lists a number of specialty areas in which faculty members who teach in that particular field list the "best" programs. The fields include such ones as intellectual property law, international law, and legal writing. We...

the rest of the ranked LRW programs

Posted on March 31, 2008
11 Indiana University--Indianapolis 12 Ohio State University (Moritz) 13 University of Denver (Sturm) University of Michigan--Ann Arbor 15 University of Baltimore Villanova University 17 Southern Illinois University--Carbondale 18 Arizona State University (O'Connor) Lewis and Clark College (Northwestern) 20 Rutgers, the...

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