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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

latest issue of Legal Writing features storytelling

Posted on June 10, 2008
Volume 14 of Legal Writing, the Journal of the Legal Writing Institute, is now available online. The issue features a tribute to Joseph Williams by Chris Rideout, as well as articles from LWI's 2007 symposium on storytelling (articles in pdf):...

Getting It

Posted on June 09, 2008
Here's a link to a post from Sue Liemer about students who "get" it. (mew)

LWI Conference - Monday Night Awards

Posted on June 08, 2008
Here's a reminder of the awards being presented on Monday evening during the Legal Writing Institute Conference in Indianapolis. These awards will be presented at the Indianapolis Arts Garden from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. on July 14, 2008. It should...

Legal Skills Conference in Istanbul

Posted on June 07, 2008
The program for the Legal Skills Conference in Istanbul is now available. Click here for more information. The conference will be August 4-8, 2008. (mew)

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a move & an opening

Posted on June 07, 2008
Professor Elizabeth Keith, the Assistant Director of the Legal Research, Writing, and Analysis Program at George Mason Law School, is moving to the Legal Rhetoric Program at American University Washington College of Law. It's hard to imagine two law schools...

from legal writing director to dean

Posted on June 07, 2008
Pace University School of Law has announced that Professor Michelle Simon has been named its new Dean. Michelle was previously the Director of Legal Writing at Pace, and this past academic year she served as the law school's Interim Dean....

Got news?

Posted on June 06, 2008
Professor Stephanie Hartung (Suffolk Law School) has asked for news and calendar events to include in the next issue of The Second Draft, the newsletter of the Legal Writing Institute. This is an opportunity for legal writing professionals to spread....

AALS - Call for Papers (International Law Section)

Posted on June 06, 2008
The Association of American Law Schools Section on International Law has issued a call for papers for possible presentation at the 2009 annual meeting in San Diego. Click here for more information. (mew)

2009 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition

Posted on June 06, 2008
The schedule for the 2009 Jessup Moot Court Competition is now available. Click here for more information. (mew)

Don't throw out old editions of textbooks & teacher's manuals.

Posted on June 05, 2008
If you have any older editions or duplicates of law books taking up too much space on your bookshelf, consider donating them to APPEAL (Academics Promoting the Pedagogy of Effective Advocacy in Law). This organization is partnering with Boeing to...

ordering a compromise

Posted on June 05, 2008
You gotta love this judge's attitude toward feuding attorneys . . . and football. In a case pending in federal district court in Texas, the parties could not agree whether to take the deposition of a corporate Wal-Mart executive in...

mark your calendar

Posted on June 05, 2008
Stetson University College of Law has announced that it will host the next Southeast Regional Legal Writing Conference -- on September 11 and 12, 2009. Although it's over a year away, this is a conference worth marking on your calendar...

Marquette uses endowed chair for visiting legal writing professors

Posted on June 05, 2008
Dean Joseph Kearney has announced that in the fall semester of 2008 Marquette University Law School will begin hosting a series of distinguished legal writing professors, each of whom will serve as the Boden Visiting Professor of Law. The Boden...

LWI Silver Anniversary Celebration (2009-11)

Posted on June 04, 2008
Here's a news exclusive on the Legal Writing Prof Blog! 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...

Congratulations to Steven Schwinn

Posted on June 02, 2008
Steven Schwinn, who teaches Lawyering Skills and Constitutional Law at The John Marshall Law School in Chicago, has won a trade adjustment assistance case before the U.S. Court of International Trade. Click here to read more. (mew) . .

Penalties for Verbose Legal Writing

Posted on June 02, 2008
Here's a post that Sue Liemer shared on this blog back in 2005. It's still good . . . and be sure to click on the link to a copy of the 412-year-old judgment. (mew) =================================================================== Everyone who teaches legal...

quotable

Posted on June 02, 2008
"Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking." - Jessamyn West (spl)

Legal Writing Conference in Turkey

Posted on June 01, 2008
If you're going to the Legal Writing Conference in Istanbul this coming August, you might like it there so much that you will want to stay in Turkey. Here's a job posting for a new law school in Turkey that...

LWI Conference Preview - Thursday Session 2

Posted on May 31, 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...

Laptops in Classrooms

Posted on May 31, 2008
A question posted on the Legal Writing Professor listserve asked about writings on computers in classrooms. A number of helpful answers appeared, so we're collecting them here. University of Chicago bans internet from most of its classrooms Coopting the Laptop...

International Students in U.S. Law Schools

Posted on May 31, 2008
How are U.S. law schools meeting the needs of students from other countries? Click here to download an article by Julie Spanbauer, who surveyed LL.M. programs in the United States and how they handle students who speak English as a...

bibliography on converting to tenure track

Posted on May 31, 2008
The following bibliography was compiled for a law school faculty committee looking at the possibility of turning contract-term legal writing jobs into tenure-line positions. These publications contain information, data, and ideas that may help others working on the same issue...

Yoknapatawpha law

Posted on May 31, 2008
We know that some of you writing types are also literature buffs (i.e., former English majors) or film buffs. You may enjoy reading this new article by Michael Allan Wolf: William Faulkner, Legal Commentator: Humanity and Endurance in Hollywood's Yoknapatawpha,...

LWI Conference Preview - Thursday Session 1

Posted on May 30, 2008
This post continues the preview of this summer's Legal Writing Institute Conference in Indianapolis. We've made up it to the last day of the conference in these previews. The Thursday morning sessions on Thursday, July 17, 2008 wisely start at...

Favorable Attention for the ALWD Manual

Posted on May 30, 2008
Professor Judy Fischer at the University of Louisville sends this heads-up: The ALWD Citation Manual, authored by the Association of Legal Writing Directors and Darby Dickerson, is mentioned favorably in Justice Antonin Scalia and Bryan Garner?s new book...

COCAL VIII

Posted on May 30, 2008
Some legal writing professors may be interested in the Coalition of Contingent Academic Labor?s eighth annual conference, COCAL VIII. The conference takes place August 8 - 10, 2008, at San Diego State University in California. The many session topics include:...

And yet another fact pattern for a legal writing problem?

Posted on May 30, 2008
Here's another fact patter for a legal writing problem. An LGBT group in Idaho has been allowed to march in a parade, as long as they don't use their name or distribute literature on HIV prevention. Here's the press release...

A Good Fact Pattern for a Legal Writing Problem?

Posted on May 30, 2008
A lawyer was suspended for two years for reading his wife's emails and the email messages of seven other lawyers in his law firm. Although there was no harm done (other than reading the messages), the court found that behavior...

Another fact pattern for a legal writing problem?

Posted on May 30, 2008
Should there be a wrongful incarceration exception to attorney-client confidentiality? Click here to download a forthcoming article that might give you some ideas for a legal writing problem. It is based on the case of a man who was wrongfully...

LWI Conference Preview - Wednesday Evening Gala

Posted on May 29, 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...

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