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The Bar Exam Taught Me Something! Or How Bar Prep Advice Helps Me Manage Life In Lockdown, Heather Varanini
The Bar Exam Taught Me Something! Or How Bar Prep Advice Helps Me Manage Life In Lockdown, Heather Varanini
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There’s a refrain from most law school graduates: law school taught me nothing about the practice of law and the bar exam didn’t test any of the skills that will make me a good lawyer. But what about the other things you learned in the process?
This Book Is Just My Type, Jennifer Babcock
This Book Is Just My Type, Jennifer Babcock
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Jennifer Babcock reviews Typography for Lawyers by Matthew Butterick (2d ed., O'Connor's 2015), 240 pages.
Improve Your Legal Writing, Christine C. Pagano
Improve Your Legal Writing, Christine C. Pagano
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Christine Pagano of Golden Gate University School of Law suggests some helpful resources for attorneys wishing to hone their drafting skills.
Form And Substance: Standards For Promotion And Retention Of Legal Writing Faculty On Clinical Tenure Track, Melissa H. Weresh
Form And Substance: Standards For Promotion And Retention Of Legal Writing Faculty On Clinical Tenure Track, Melissa H. Weresh
Golden Gate University Law Review
This Article first briefly traces the development of legal writing programs and the various forms of job security currently afforded to legal writing faculty. It then examines standards for promotion and retention of legal writing faculty eligible for long-term contracts under 405(c), specifically in terms of titles, rank, and term of employment contracts, and the categories of criteria applicable to promotion for each term of employment. Finally, the Article examines some of the procedural aspects associated with promotion and retention of legal writing faculty under a 405(c) model, particularly in terms of evaluation and objection procedures.
The Renaissance Road: Redesigning The Legal Writing Instructional Model, Johanna K.P. Dennis
The Renaissance Road: Redesigning The Legal Writing Instructional Model, Johanna K.P. Dennis
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The status quo in the required legal writing curriculum of legal education is a two-semester program in the first year of law school. However, this program requires that students simultaneously rethink and develop their legal writing skills while being taught an entirely new language - the language of the law. This program expects mastery from all students without accounting for their necessary rebirths or providing multiple opportunities for depth on various assignments. By contrast, institutions can rethink how they educate future lawyers and transition to a three-semester program, which allows more opportunity for horizontal growth and vertical advancement beyond the …
Ensuring A Multicultural Educational Experience In Legal Education: Start With The Legal Writing Classroom, Johanna K.P. Dennis
Ensuring A Multicultural Educational Experience In Legal Education: Start With The Legal Writing Classroom, Johanna K.P. Dennis
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This Article discusses the two-fold nature of multicultural education- educating on multicultural topics and educating multicultural students. By examining eight different law schools, the Author discusses current efforts in each law school that impact the educational experience, the shortfalls in these efforts, the need for first-year integration of multicultural topics, and how an educator in the legal academy can ensure that her students receive a well-rounded multicultural educational experience. In particular, the Article addresses multicultural education through the lens of a legal writing professor, whose role entails instructing students on predictive and persuasive writing over the course of the first …
Assessing Student Learning Through Powerpoint 'Games', Johanna K.P. Dennis
Assessing Student Learning Through Powerpoint 'Games', Johanna K.P. Dennis
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It is undisputed that technology has the potential to change the law school classroom and to impact the educational experience. In the legal writing classroom, the use of PowerPoint-based "games" can create a dynamic learning environment enabling a professor to better assess student progress.
Roadmapping And Legal Writing, Deborah Nicole Behles, Bradley G. Clary
Roadmapping And Legal Writing, Deborah Nicole Behles, Bradley G. Clary
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