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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

non-verbal communication skills workshop

Posted on April 01, 2011
These days legal writing professors teach a wide range of skills, including non-verbal communication skills. For law professors and lawyers who would like to learn more about non-verbal communications, there will be a full-day workshop before the Global Legal Skills...

Details in legal writing

Posted on March 31, 2011
A recent case reinforces the need for careful attention to details in legal writing. BMS Natural Resources, Inc., v. Martin Co. Land Co. LLC, Civil Action no. 3:10-1261, 2011 WL 227646 (S.D.W. Va. Jan. 21, 2011). Because of spelling and...

New Book on "Classical English Rhetoric"

Posted on March 30, 2011
We note the publication of a new book that may be of interest to readers of this blog. It is Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric, authored by Ward Farnsworth, Professor at Boston University School of Law. Now, I haven't yet seen...

A Reminder about the LWI Writers' Workshop

Posted on March 28, 2011
The Legal Writing Institute announced that the eighth LWI Writers? Workshop will take place on July 11-13, 2011 at the Colorado Chautauqua at the foot of Boulder?s Flatiron Mountains. The workshop will give up to twelve Legal Writing faculty the...

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Results from Stetson International Environmental Moot Court Competition

Posted on March 28, 2011
The Stetson International Environmental Moot Court Competition was originally started by a couple of legal writing professors (Royal Gardner and Darby Dickerson). The competition has now been held for 15 years, and students now compete in regionals in Africa, Asia,...

New York Times cites Susan Duncan

Posted on March 28, 2011
Legal writing professor Susan Duncan of the University of Louisville was cited by the New York Times on Sunday. In an article titled "States Struggle with Minors' Sexting," author Jan Hoffman cited Duncan's Oregon Law Review article that calls for...

Who Won Jessup This Year?

Posted on March 28, 2011
The University of Sydney (Australia) beat Columbia Law School (USA) in an incredibly close final round of the 2011 International Rounds of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition. The final round was presided over by Thomas Buergenthal...

Important News for Jessup Moot Court Coaches

Posted on March 28, 2011
The 2012 Jessup Problem will involve a dispute between two states over the destruction of a cultural site of great importance and the important question of who gets to represent a state internationally in the immediate aftermath of a coup...

Rocky Mountain Report #3

Posted on March 26, 2011
I'm not going to tell you anything about the sessions I attended. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. (mew)

report from Rocky Mountain #2

Posted on March 26, 2011
In the second session, I sat in on two great presentations on tips related to teaching oral argument effectively. Deborah Borman and Dana Hill (Northwestern) talked about using improvisational theatre games to help prepare students for oral arguments...

report from Rocky Mountain

Posted on March 26, 2011
On an unusually cool and windy day in Las Vegas, the Rocky Mountain regional LRW conference started off with a full slate of sessions at 2 pm. Susan Wawrose, Victoria VanZandt, and Sheila Miller (Dayton) spoke on using focus groups...

Professional dress

Posted on March 24, 2011
This Wall Street Journal article raises some interesting issues about young women and provocative dress. It focuses on teenagers, but some of its points may be of interest as law students prepare for oral arguments and job interviews. (jdf)

Map of Law Schools in the United States

Posted on March 23, 2011
Hey! Where are law schools in the United States? Have a look at this map to see where ABA-approved law schools are located in the United States. (mew)

in praise of checklists

Posted on March 22, 2011
The reason I love giving my students checklists is because simply putting something on a checklist makes it much less likely I will need to comment on it repeatedly on my students' papers when I critique them. Of course checklists...

The Evolved Appellate Brief

Posted on March 22, 2011
If you get the ABA Litigation magazine, take a look at The Evolved Appellate Brief by Larry A. Klein (Fall 2010, Vol. 37 No.1). The article contains advice that legal writing professors give in class and follow in their own...

Intriguing case names

Posted on March 21, 2011
For a little mid-semester humor, check the February 2011 Texas bar Journal, where John G. Browning presents some interesting case names. His article, Saying it with Style, includes some aptly paired party names, like Plough v. Fields, Silver v. Gold,...

If you want to see these cherry

Posted on March 21, 2011
If you want to see these cherry blossoms in person, plan to attend the Southeast Regional Legal Writing Conference hosted by Mercer Law School on April 15-16. The opening colloquium will focus on the relationship of critical theories to law...

Global Legal Skills Conference VI

Posted on March 20, 2011
A reminder: The sixth Global Legal Skills Conference will be held at The John Marshall Law School in Chicago on May 5-7, 2011. (mew)

kudos, Duquesne!

Posted on March 19, 2011
Congratulations to the legal writing faculty at Duquesne University! As of July 1, 2011, Julia Glencer, Erin Karsman, and Tara Willke will have their ABA 405(c) positions converted to tenure-track faculty positions.? The director of the program, Jan Levine, says,"They're...

Scribes - The American Society of Legal Writers

Posted on March 18, 2011
Scribes -- the American Society of Legal Writers -- meets this weekend in San Diego, California. The meeting is hosted by Steve Smith, Dean of the California Western School of Law, who is the new president of Scribes. Today, three...

Email or E-mail?

Posted on March 18, 2011
The publishers of the AP Stylebook announced today that the the abbreviated term for electronic mail is losing a hyphen, which is described as "a relic of a simpler time when internet technology needed to be explained very carefully." Click...

Here's what happens when you file an overlength brief with the 7th Circuit . . .

Posted on March 11, 2011
And do it while certifying that it is compliant in length. The Court is NOT amused. (Words and phrases like "rambling" and "flagrancy of the violation" and "district court summarily affirmed" make its lack of amusement abundantly clear!) (njs)

lack of ellipses leads to sanction

Posted on March 11, 2011
An attorney who omitted language from a trial judge's statement of facts without so indicating when including that material in his appeal has been sanctioned by the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers. (njs)

Susan Duncan to become Associate Dean

Posted on March 10, 2011
The University of Louisville's Brandeis School of Law has exciting news! Legal Writing professor Susan Duncan will become the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Faculty Development on July 1. Susan has served the legal writing community in many capacities,...

Investigating Crimes in Kenya

Posted on March 09, 2011
Six high-ranking Kenyan officials, including a deputy prime minister, two ministers and a police chief, have been summoned to appear before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in connection with possible crimes against humanity committed in post-electoral violence three years ago...

Short diagnostic test on grammar and apostrophes

Posted on March 09, 2011
An article in the February 2011 issue of The Practical Lawyer contains a quick test on grammar and apostrophe usage. Author Michael G. Walsh adapted examples from a 1928 textbook into an up-to-the-minute diagnostic. Walsh apologizes to readers who find...

LWI Writers' Workshop

Posted on March 07, 2011
The Legal Writing Institute announced that the eighth LWI Writers? Workshop will take place on July 11-13, 2011 at the Colorado Chautauqua at the foot of Boulder?s Flatiron Mountains. The workshop will give up to twelve Legal Writing faculty the...

Another critique of WestlawNext

Posted on March 07, 2011
A recent article in the Student Lawyer provides a short critique of West?s new research system, WestlawNext. Author Shawn Nevers, a legal librarian at Brigham Young University, calls WestlawNext a ?smarter search engine? and reports that it produced good results...

WestlawNext, WestSearch, and the Secret Recipes for Coca-Cola, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and McDonald's Special Sauce

Posted on March 06, 2011
Ronald E. Wheeler, the Director of the Dorraine Zief Law Library and Associate Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco School of Law, has written up his thoughts on Westlaw Next in an article called "Does WestlawNext Really...

Do you allow laptops in class?

Posted on March 05, 2011
Kristen Murray, at Temple University, has written an article to try to persuade all of us to "Let Them Use Laptops: Debunking the Assumptions Underlying the Debate Over Laptops in the Classroom". Here's her premise, in her own words: "Law...

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