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new book on legal analysis

Posted on July 10, 2008
Carolina Academic Press has just announced publication of a new book, A Lawyer Writes: A Practical Guide to Legal Analysis. Co-authors are Christine Coughlin (Wake Forest), Joan Malmud (Oregon), and Sandy Patrick (Lewis & Clark). From CAP's announcement: "A Lawyer...

Grace Tonner named associate dean at UC-Irvine; Philip Frost promoted to director at Michigan

Posted on July 10, 2008
Grace Tonner, legal writing director at Michigan since 1995, has been named as a member of the founding faculty and Associate Dean of Lawyering Skills at the University of California-Irvine's new law school. Click here to read Grace's profile, and...

LWI Conference - Thursday Session 4

Posted on July 09, 2008
The fourth session on Thursday, July 17, 2008 comes just after the Hoosier Cookout Lunch on Thursday. The session will run from 1:30 to 2:15 p.m. After that, an ice cream social. How great is that going to be? A...

LWI Conference - Thursday Session 3

Posted on July 09, 2008
This post continues the preview of sessions at the upcoming Legal Writing Institute summer conference in Indianapolis. We're almost done! The third session on Thursday, July 17, 2008 (the last day of the conference) will be from 11:30 a.m. to...

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LWI Conference - Thursday Session 2

Posted on July 09, 2008
This post continues the preview of the upcoming Legal Writing Institute Conference. The second session on Thursday, July 17, 2008 will be from 10:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. R2A Steve Johansen (Director of Legal Writing and Professor of Law at...

LWI Conference - Thursday Session 1

Posted on July 09, 2008
This post continues the preview of this summer's Legal Writing Institute Conference in Indianapolis. The Thursday morning sessions on Thursday, July 17, 2008 wisely start at 9:30 instead of 9:00 a.m. They go until 10:15 a.m. R1A Mitchell J. Nathanson...

LWI Silver Anniversary Celebration

Posted on July 09, 2008
Next year the Legal Writing Institute will be celebrating the 25th Anniversary of its first national conference in Seattle. The anniversary celebration will begin at the Golden Pen and Blackwell Award Ceremonies in San Diego on the evening of Friday,...

Global Legal Skills Conferences -- Dates Set for Numbers 4 and 5

Posted on July 09, 2008
The first two Global Legal Skills Conferences were held in Chicago. The third was held in Monterrey Mexico. Here are the dates of the next two. GLS-IV will be held at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington DC on...

A note to our readers

Posted on July 09, 2008
We've had a massive number of posts this week in anticipation of next week's LWI Conference. To see all of the posts, you should click here or click on the WEEKLY ARCHIVE list (in the right hand column) for this...

LWI Conference - Wednesday Evening Museum Gala

Posted on July 09, 2008
The Wednesday evening event at the Legal Writing Institute Conference will be a Gala Celebration at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art. The museum, which opened in 1989, showcases Western and Native American art and cultural objects...

LWI Conference - Wednesday Session 5

Posted on July 09, 2008
The fifth session on Wednesday will be from from 3:30 to 4:15 p.m. I only have the titles of the three sessions, but these titles are fairly descriptive. W5A - Getting Involved with LWI: Committee Fair W5B - Traveling with...

LWI Conference - Wednesday Session 4

Posted on July 09, 2008
The fourth round of sessions on Wednesday, July 16, 2008 will be held from 2:30 to 3:15 p.m. W4A is a session where Richard Neumann (Hofstra) will provide an ABA Update, followed by a presentation by Ralph Brill (Chicago-Kent College...

The New LWI Logo

Posted on July 09, 2008
Here is the new logo for the Legal Writing Institute. It's to be officially unveiled next week, and we were not going to post it until then, but copies appeared today on the Legal Writing Listserve so our self-imposed ban...

LWI Conference - Tuesday Evening POPCORN SESSIONS!!!

Posted on July 08, 2008
"Popcorn Sessions" are a new feature of the Legal Writing Institute Conference. These are longer, informal sessions (90 minutes!) with lots of group conversation and interactions. The purpose is to foster more dialogue among conference attendees. These sessions will be...

LWI Conference - Tuesday Evening New Member Dinners

Posted on July 08, 2008
uesday evening features "New Member Dinners," starting at 5:30 p.m. This is when more experienced LWI members take new members out to dinner so that the new members can feel more personally welcomed into the legal writing community. Ruth Anne...

LWI Conference - Tuesday Session 4

Posted on July 08, 2008
Here are the presentations being held during th e fourth round of sessions on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 at the Legal Writing Institute Conference in Indianapolis. These sessions are from 2:30 to 3:15 p.m., so you have to pick just...

LWI Conference - Tuesday Session 3

Posted on July 07, 2008
This post continues the preview of sessions at the Legal Writing Institute Conference in Indianapolis. These are the seven choices for session 3 on Tuesday (1:30 to 2:15 p.m.). T3A: There are two presentations in session T3A. The first is...

LWI Conference - Moot Court Lunch

Posted on July 07, 2008
On Tuesday, July 15, from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m., a lunchtime roundtable about moot court-related issues will be held at the LWI Conference. This roundtable discussion will be led by Melissa Greipp of Marquette University School of Law, Coleen Barger...

LWI Conference - Pink Ink Lunch on Tuesday

Posted on July 07, 2008
Pink Ink is the LGBT caucus of the Legal Writing Institute. In addition to the Diversity Luncheon on Tuesday, there will also be a Pink Ink luncheon. I think it will work the same way (you pick up a box...

LWI - Tuesday Lunch - Legal Writing Faculty of Color

Posted on July 07, 2008
After a full morning program (with a plenary and then two sessions) it will be time to eat! One of the lunch breakout sessions will be a roundtable luncheon to discuss issues facing legal writing faculty of color on Tuesday,...

LWI Conference - Tuesday Session 2

Posted on July 07, 2008
Session 2 on Tuesday of the Legal Writing Institute Conference offers seven concurrent programs. Read the descriptions below and pick the one that you'll attend. Each of the following programs will be from 11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. on Tuesday,...

LWI Conference - Tuesday Session 1

Posted on July 07, 2008
The 13th Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing Institute is fast upon us. After the opening plenary session with the Ha-Ha Sisterhood, we'll travel to the conference site for the first session of the Legal Writing Institute. Programs during this...

LWI Conference - Opening Plenary at 8:00 a.m. Tuesday

Posted on July 07, 2008
The opening plenary of the Legal Writing Institute Conference begins at 8:00 a.m. on Tuesday Morning, July 15. Keep that early time in mind when you decide how late you are going to stay out celebrating Bastille Day the night...

the plural of thesaurus?

Posted on July 06, 2008
I once cited to an edition of Webster's dictionary in a brief to a state supreme court, to bolster a plain-meaning-of-the-language argument. But I have never thought to cite to a thesaurus. And I counsel my first-year law students who...

state constitutions

Posted on July 05, 2008
When you least expect it, a question of state constitutional law may come up in teaching or in practice. An excellent source for any U.S. state constitution you may ever need to consult, including historic ones, is made available by...

ideas for legal writing problems

Posted on July 05, 2008
If you're looking for ideas for legal writing problems, take a look at Kathleen Miller's article on Creating an Appellate Brief Assignment. The first section of her article explains the various sources of ready-made appellate brief problems, which often can...

no rocket surgery

Posted on July 04, 2008
As legal writing professors, we occasionally get into heated discussions on our listservs about grammar and usage. We aren't the only ones who get worked up about others' indelicate errors or downright awful transgressions. Following the recent Bashman/Posner debate about...

LRW-related panel at ABA meeting in August

Posted on July 04, 2008
At the ABA meeting in August, there will be a panel presentation that includes a speaker from Great Britain, Louise Stoker, who will be talking about the qualifications process required before practicing there and the outcomes-based process to legal education...

tempted to "edit" your student evals?

Posted on July 03, 2008
Student evaluations sometimes seem like the bane of the law professor's existence, and it might be just barely understandable that one might be tempted to "edit" one's student evaluations. Well, here's a really good example of why that would be...

Another "thank you" in advance to the LWI Conference Team

Posted on July 02, 2008
Legal Writing Institute Conferences are big events. Huge. And a lot of fun. But behind the scenes there is always a lot of work that got done to make the conference a success. So here, in advance, are the names...

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