Legal Writing Prof Blog
Is devoted to legal writing news, issues, war stories and continuing education opportunities.
Author: Nancy Soonpaa is associate dean for student affairs, professor of law, and director of the Legal Practice Program at Texas Tech University School of Law; Sue Liemer is an assistant professor of law and director of lawyering skills at Southern Illinois University School of Law; Coleen M. Barger is an associate professor of law at UALR Bowen School of Law; and Mark E. Wojcik is a law professor and director of the Global Legal Studies Program John Marshall Law School. Contributing editor James B. Levy is an associate professor at Nova Southeastern University School of Law.
Blawg Related Categories: Law Practice Management • Law Professors • John Marshall Law School • Nova Southeastern University • Southern Illinois University-Carbondale • Texas Tech University • University of Arkansas, Little Rock, Bowen School of Law • Law Professor • Legal Research and Writing
Recent Posts from Legal Writing Prof Blog
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How to get students to read
The problem with law students may not be that they don't read (it's pretty hard to avoid it in law school although many still try), but reading comprehension. Thus, this article from Inside Higher Ed…
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Google Scholar enters the open access legal research game
Both the Law Librarian and the Adjunct Law Prof blogs have been following the big story this week that cases and statutes are now searchable through Google Scholar. From the Official Google Blog: Currently, Google…
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Student who filed suit over his legal writing grade loses
Brother Mitch Rubinstein over at the Adjunct Law Prof blog sent me this link to a story he's been following about a New York Law School student who sued his school because he believed his…
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job opening at Texas Tech
Texas Tech University School of Law seeks applicants for an opening in its nationally ranked Legal Practice Program for the 2010-11 school year. The successful applicant will join a program that comprises four other full-time…
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recent scholarship
Thanks to LWI's cooperation with LSN, a division of SSRN, we have these reports on recent legal writing related scholarship, with each author's abstract: "Thorough Academic Legal Research Will Improve Your Papers" Student Lawyer, Vol.…
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West makes textbook on persuasion available for Kindle
This one comes to us from our good buddy Mitch Rubinstein of the Adjunct Law Prof Blog (which was recently named one of the 10 best blogs for legal news written "by and for law…
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AALS Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research
Here is a link to the Fall 2009 Newsletter of the Association of American Law Schools' Section of Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research. Download AALS Legal Writing Newsletter Fall 2009 FINAL (mew)
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The words (and phrases) we love to hate
In this recent column by Professor Stanley Fish in the NYT, the author catalogs several contemporary expressions that give us fits like "Your call is important to us" (yeah, right) or "Please listen carefully as…
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Professionalism alert: Tell your students that when it comes to their resumes, don't "gild the lily."
The National Law Journal reports that given how desperate some job seekers have become in this market, employers are seeing much more resume fraud. Here are some of the more egregious examples cited by the…
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a rule is like . . .
In a recent class, a student was confused about the difference between the rule and the rule explanation/proof, and a classmate offered this explanation: The rule is like describing the forest, and the rule explanation…