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Jane Kent Gionfriddo

Legal Education with a specific focus on Analysis and Writing

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A Methodology For Mentoring Writing In Law Practice: Using Textual Clues To Provide Effective And Efficient Feedback, Jane Gionfriddo, Daniel Barnett, E. Joan Blum Dec 2008

A Methodology For Mentoring Writing In Law Practice: Using Textual Clues To Provide Effective And Efficient Feedback, Jane Gionfriddo, Daniel Barnett, E. Joan Blum

Jane Kent Gionfriddo

Becoming a successful legal writer is a process that begins in law school and continues intensively during the beginning years of a lawyer's career. Throughout this process, in both contexts, a writer benefits enormously from feedback on his analysis, and how that analysis is conveyed, from those more experienced. Much has been written about how legal educators should respond to student written work, yet little addresses the role that supervising attorneys can play in mentoring the writing of less experienced colleagues. This article therefore proposes a methodology to help supervisor-mentors provide, in an efficient manner, effective feedback on junior lawyers' …


Monograph Series Of The Legal Writing Institute, Jane Gionfriddo Dec 2007

Monograph Series Of The Legal Writing Institute, Jane Gionfriddo

Jane Kent Gionfriddo

Editor-in-Chief, Monograph Series of the Legal Writing Institute, 2008 to 2010


[Contributing Author], Jane Gionfriddo Dec 2005

[Contributing Author], Jane Gionfriddo

Jane Kent Gionfriddo

The aim of the Sourcebook on Legal Writing Programs establishes the parameters and common features that define successful programs for teaching legal writing skills in law school and to help improve the quality of legal writing programs across the country. The Sourcebook is the primary reference source for those designing, directing and teaching in legal writing programs.


The Second Draft: Bulletin Of The Legal Writing Institute, Jane Gionfriddo, E. Joan Blum Dec 1993

The Second Draft: Bulletin Of The Legal Writing Institute, Jane Gionfriddo, E. Joan Blum

Jane Kent Gionfriddo

With E. Joan Blum, editors. The Second Draft: Bulletin of the Legal Writing Institute 9-14 (1994-2000).