Legal Writing and Research Commons^™

Research Strategy And Assignment Intake Tips, Amy Wright

Amy J. Wright

This presentation covers development of a sound research strategy, alerts students to common assignment pitfalls, and provides pointers on bringing research to a close.

One Small Step For Legal Writing, One Giant Leap For Legal Education: Making The Case For More Writing Opportunities In The "Practice-Ready" Law School Curriculum, Sherri Lee Keene

Faculty Scholarship

Legal writing is more than an isolated practical skill or a law school course; it is a valuable tool for broadening and deepening law students’ and new attorneys’ knowledge and understanding of the law. If experienced legal professionals, both professors and practitioners alike, take a hard look back at their careers, many will no doubt remember how their work on significant legal writing projects advanced their own knowledge of the law and enhanced their professional competence. Legal writing practice helps the writer to gain expertise in a number of ways: first, the act of writing itself promotes learning; second, close ...

Maine State Law And Legislative Reference Library, John Barden

Maine Policy Review

The Maine State Law and Legislative Reference Library provides reference assistance to legislators, the judiciary, state agencies, members of the bar, and citizens across the state of Maine and beyond from its rich and unique collection of legal and legislative materials.

Teaching Business Law In The New Economy; Strategies For Success, Kamille Wolff Dean

Journal of Business & Technology Law

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Teaching Amidst Transformation: Integrating Global Perspectives On The Financial Crisis Into The Classroom, Shruti Rana

Journal of Business & Technology Law

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Book Review - Henke: California Law Guide, Second Edition, Nancy J. Kitchen

Pepperdine Law Review

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Motions In Motion: Teaching Advanced Legal Writing Through Collaboration, Richard Strong, Elizabeth Shaver, Sarah Morath

Richard Strong

Legal education is at a crossroads. Practitioners, academics, and students agree that more experiential learning opportunities are needed in law school.

In 2007, the Carnegie Foundation report, Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law (Carnegie Report), called for law schools to provide apprentice experiences to better prepare prospective attorneys for the world of practice. That same year, the Best Practices in Legal Education advocated for “experiential education” and “encourage[d] law school[s] to expand its use.” More recently, in August 2011, the American Bar Association adopted a resolution sponsored by the New York Bar Association summoning law schools ...

Motions In Motion: Teaching Advanced Legal Writing Through Collaboration, Elizabeth Shaver, Sarah Morath, Richard Strong

Elizabeth Shaver

Legal education is at a crossroads. Practitioners, academics, and students agree that more experiential learning opportunities are needed in law school.

In 2007, the Carnegie Foundation report, Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law (Carnegie Report), called for law schools to provide apprentice experiences to better prepare prospective attorneys for the world of practice. That same year, the Best Practices in Legal Education advocated for “experiential education” and “encourage[d] law school[s] to expand its use.” More recently, in August 2011, the American Bar Association adopted a resolution sponsored by the New York Bar Association summoning law schools ...

Motions In Motions: Teaching Advanced Legal Writing Through Collaboration, Sarah J. Morath, Elizabeth Shaver, Richard Strong

Sarah J Morath

Legal education is at a crossroads. Practitioners, academics, and students agree that more experiential learning opportunities are needed in law school.

In 2007, the Carnegie Foundation report, Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law (Carnegie Report), called for law schools to provide apprentice experiences to better prepare prospective attorneys for the world of practice. That same year, the Best Practices in Legal Education advocated for “experiential education” and “encourage[d] law school[s] to expand its use.” More recently, in August 2011, the American Bar Association adopted a resolution sponsored by the New York Bar Association summoning law schools ...

Nine Secrets For Living With Judges , J.P. Vero

Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary

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Res Ipsa Non Loquitur: The Writing Of Opinions, Harold H. Kolb Jr.

Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary

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Professional Legal Writing Declaring Your Independence, Patrick R. Hugg

Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary

This article proposes two controversial assertions about the writing of many lawyers and judges today and offers a central theme for improving that writing. These bold propositions are offered in an effort to awaken and perhaps inspire the legions of overworked, harried legal scriveners inhabiting our legal community to adopt a new methodology of writing. Too many legal writers today are forced by the various (nefarious) circumstances of their work to crank out reams of hastily conceived and poorly edited text. The time has arrived for us to admit to this unacceptable state of affairs and to declare independence from ...

Administrative Decision Writing , Irvin Stander

Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary

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Professional Writing Methodology , Patrick R. Hugg

Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary

Characterizing attorneys as professional writers, in the literary sense, who just happen to work in the legal milieu, this article discusses the author’s principles of “Professional Writing Methodology.”

Style In Judicial Writing, Griffin B. Bell

Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary

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The Unseen Hand In Administrative Law Decisions: Organizing Principles For Findings Of Fact & (And) Conclusions Of Law, Michael Frost

Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary

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Evidence Column, Paul R. Troeh Jr

Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary

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The Art Of Legal Writing, Thomas E. Spahn

Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary

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Mobile Apps For Legal Research On The Go, Wiener-Rogers Law Library, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School Of Law

Nevada Legal Research Guides / Reference Desk Guides

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A Brief Guide To Finding International Treaties, Jennifer Sekula

Library Staff Publications

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