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Global Legal Skills Conference III - Mexico

Posted on January 14, 2008
Are you g oing to the Global Legal Skills Conference next month in Monterrey Mexico? If so, you should be sure to send in your hotel reservation by tomorrow (January 15) to get the special conference rate. The conference website...

one minute late . . .

Posted on January 14, 2008
A motion filed late by one minute may cost a client payment of attorney's fees of potentially $1 million. The excuse? Traffic. As reported in the January 9 Wall Street Journal, the courier service had 45 minutes to get to...

Filling in for Sue Liemer

Posted on January 13, 2008
Sue Liemer has just shared with you the news that I have agreed to fill in for her on this website while she is on sabbatical. I'm happy to help out, and I'm always happy when legal writing professors get...

on blogging

Posted on January 13, 2008
Want to know how hard it is to blog? Attorney Mark Herrmann explains it well in Blogging Lessons Learned, published by The National Law Journal on January 10th. hat tip: Diane Murley, Arizona State University And that dear readers, provides...

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stand here, please

Posted on January 12, 2008
In the months ahead, law students across the country will venture into the world of appellate advocacy. Too often, they approach the briefs as they approach final exams--trying to spot every possible issue, demonstrating how thoroughly they know the law,...

outsourcing "LR&R"

Posted on January 11, 2008
A blog named Legal Process Outsourcing has a guest post by a gentleman named Tariq Hafeez, describing services his company offers for those wishing to outsource legal research and writing (shortened by Hafeez to the acronym "LR&R," which reminds me...

a pre-orientation reading

Posted on January 11, 2008
Professor Orin Kerr at George Washington University has written an excellent article to include in whatever packet of reading material is snail-mailed or electronically posted for your incoming 1L's over the summer: How to Read a Legal Opinion, 11 Green...

Arkansas Supreme Court maintains prohibition on citation of unpublished opinions

Posted on January 11, 2008
As noted in an earlier post, the Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday, January 10, 2008, issued a per curiam opinion concerning proposed amendments to several court rules. One of the proposals sought to change a provision in Arkansas Supreme Court...

Arkansas Supreme Court nixes Bluebook-only proposal

Posted on January 10, 2008
Today the Arkansas Supreme Court published a per curiam opinion adopting and declining to adopt various proposed changes to the Arkansas court rules. Among the changes the court declined to adopt was a proposed amendment to Arkansas Supreme Court Rule...

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