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

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200 Law Schools Now Approved by the ABA

Posted on June 17, 2008
Last week the American Bar Association granted provisional accreditation to two law schools in North Carolina, making them numbers 199 and 200 in the list of accredited or provisionally accredited law schools in the United States. The newest law schools...

Using a Cell Phone to Buy Drugs - Circuits Are Split on Whether This Violates

Posted on June 17, 2008
A guy uses his own cell phone to purchase drugs. Does he commit a separate statutory violation by using his own phone? The Statutory Construction Blog tells us that circuits are split on the application of 21 USC 843(b) to...

LWI Conference - Here is a list of the people who put the conference together

Posted on June 17, 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...

LWI - Membership Meeting

Posted on June 17, 2008
The Legal Writing Institute will have a Membership Meeting on Wednesday, July 16, 2008, at 1:00 pm in the Moot Court Room (Room 100) at Indiana University School of Law in Indianapolis. The meeting will be videocast if there aren?t...

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moot court roundtable

Posted on June 16, 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...

news from Drake

Posted on June 16, 2008
Here's some news from John Edwards, Associate Dean for Information Resources and Technology and Professor of Law at Drake University Law School: ***** Drake has been selected as a 2008 recipient of the American Bar Association's Gambrell Professionalism Award...

resources to help law students' writing skills

Posted on June 16, 2008
The LAWPROF listserv has a thread--started by a non-LRW law prof--on incorporating grammar, punctuation, and other writing skills into a seminar course in which students write a substantial scholarly paper. Here are some of the resources suggested by other law...

advice for those being edited

Posted on June 16, 2008
Professor Doug Abrams at the University of Missouri writes an advice column, Writing It Right, in the Missouri Bar's quarterly magazine, Precedent. His latest advice, We Are the Products of Editing, 2 Precedent 12-14 (Spring 2008), can help all legal...

info on submitting your work to law journals

Posted on June 16, 2008
Professors Allen Rostron and Nancy Levit, at the University of Missouri in Kansas City, have updated their chart of Information for Submitting Articles to Law Reviews and Journals. This chart contains very helfpul details about each U.S. law journal's preferences...

To Our Friends at the University of Iowa

Posted on June 16, 2008
We send our best wishes to our friends at the University of Iowa and others affected by the floods in Iowa. (mew)

An Appellate Brief Problem for Our Friends in Florida

Posted on June 15, 2008
Professor Colin Miller at the Evidence Prof Blog has a post on a new case that reveals interesting distinctions between impeachment under the Florida Rules of Evidence and the Federal Rules of Evidence. Have a look at his post, and...

LWI Conference Preview - Thursday Session 3

Posted on June 15, 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...

LRW news from Case

Posted on June 15, 2008
Starting with the next academic year, the legal writing professors at Case Western Reserve University School of Law will be able to vote on almost everything that comes up at faculty meetings, with the exception of tenure and promotion decisions....

writing resources for international students

Posted on June 14, 2008
An excellent list of resources for international law students is A Sampling of Legal Writing and Research Texts for International Students, by Mary Hotchkiss at the University of Washington School of Law in Seattle. You can find it by clicking...

future accreditation standards for law schools

Posted on June 14, 2008
The ABA has been considering revising its law school accreditation standards, which have evolved into a bit of a hodge podge over the years. Committees have now issued reports on three separate topics: Outcome Measures Security of Position Transparency Click...

Happy Flag Day!

Posted on June 14, 2008
You can read about the history of the United States flag, including relevant laws, at The Library of Congress's website. Once there, click on the link for "June 14, 1777." Then click on the link for the actual "Page image."...

Rutgers job opening for 2009

Posted on June 14, 2008
The information below comes from Professor Sarah Ricks: Rutgers School of Law - Camden is conducting a national search to fill a 405(c) clinical professor position in our Legal Analysis, Research, and Writing Program (LAWR). Each LAWR clinical professor teaches...

Comment on a Work in Progress

Posted on June 13, 2008
Legal writing scholarship is a wonderful thing. It is great to read the interesting articles our colleagues publish in journals such as ALWD, Legal Writing, Scribes, Clarity, The Second Draft, and even mainstream law reviews. But I find that I...

Same-Sex Marriage and Legal Writing Problems

Posted on June 13, 2008
Thousands of same-sex couples will start to marry in a few days in California. It is for me and for many readers of this blog a wonderful event, no matter what your sexual orientation or affectional preference may be. Because...

Congratulations to Bob Sachs

Posted on June 13, 2008
Rutgers-Camden announced that Robert A. Sachs will be a Visiting Clinical Associate Professor of Law for the 2008-09 year, teaching in its first-year legal writing program. He joins Rutgers after three years of teaching in the Legal Skills program at...

Congratulations to Evangeline Abriel and Santa Clara University School of Law

Posted on June 13, 2008
Congratulations to Evangeline Abriel, who was chosen as the new Director of the Legal Analysis, Research and Writing Program at Santa Clara University School of Law. Evangeline joined Santa Clara University School of Law as a LARAW instructor in the....

NOW they get it

Posted on June 12, 2008
This is the time of year that I get e-mails from some of my previous students, acknowledging (and sometimes thanking me for) all that they learned in the legal writing class, as they're now using those skills at work. I...

online sources for information on U.S. federal, state judicial systems

Posted on June 12, 2008
Civics quiz: How much do your incoming students know about the federal and state judicial systems of the United States? While some professors have sought teaching materials to offer foreign students coming to study law in America, such materials are....

Popcorn Session on Getting Published

Posted on June 11, 2008
We have a new description for one of the popcorn sessions on Tuesday evening, July 15, 2008 at the summer conference of the Legal Writing Institute. Here it is: A panel of experienced editors representing several major legal writing publications...

Jurors Playing Sudoku

Posted on June 11, 2008
This news might be somewhat related to the post below on laptops in classrooms . . . A judge in Australia aborted a drug conspiracy trial this week after some of the jurors were found playing the puzzle game while...

Laptops in Classrooms

Posted on June 11, 2008
The Chronicle of Higher Education has another story this week on a favorite debate item among law school (and business school) faculties -- whether to ban laptops from classrooms. The article is called Law Professors Rule Laptops Out of Order...

Legal Scholarship Blog

Posted on June 11, 2008
The Legal Scholarship Blog is asking for readers to take a quick survey about how they use that blog and any suggestions you might have to improve it. Click here. We don't have a similar survey for this blog, but...

kudos to Michael Smith!

Posted on June 10, 2008
The Wyoming School of Law has named legal writing professor extraordinaire Michael Smith as the Winston S. Howard Distinguished Professor of Law. This endowed professorship is named after one of the two founders of Denver?s oldest law firm, Sherman &...

like, uh, like

Posted on June 10, 2008
If you are stunned by the frequency with which the newest generation of law students uses the word "like" in their spoken language, you might appreciate an article entitled Like: The Discourse Particle and Semantics, 19 Journal of Semantics 35-71...

LWI Journal call for articles

Posted on June 10, 2008
Speakers making presentations at this summer's Legal Writing Institute conference are invited to submit articles on their presentations for upcoming Volume 15 (proceedings issue) of Legal Writing, the Journal of the Legal Writing Institute. Manuscripts will be accepted until September...

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