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Plain English For Lawyers, Richard C. Wydick Berkeley Law

Plain English For Lawyers, Richard C. Wydick

California Law Review

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Pointing Out The Power Of Prezi, Part Ii: Learning To Use Prezi, Paul M. Birch University of Richmond

Pointing Out The Power Of Prezi, Part Ii: Learning To Use Prezi, Paul M. Birch

Law Faculty Publications

This article introduces Prezi, the online presentation software which has emerged as a most promising alternative to Microsoft PowerPoint. Part II provides a tutorial designed to acquaint the user with the basic steps in creating a presentation, and offers additional advice for effective use of Prezi.

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Grades Matter; Legal Writing Grades Matter Most, Jessica L. Clark Georgetown University Law Center

Grades Matter; Legal Writing Grades Matter Most, Jessica L. Clark

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

In this study of 380 students in a law school’s 2011 graduating class, the data demonstrates a strong correlation between high performance in legal writing courses and high performance in non-legal writing courses. There is also a strong correlation at the opposite end: low performers in legal writing courses are low performers in non-legal writing courses. This article provides the hard data to support the significance of writing skills by demonstrating the correlation between performance in legal writing courses and performance in other law school courses by comparing grades and Grade Point Averages (GPAs). Of course grades and GPA ...

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Dialogue On Private Property, Felix S. Cohen Yale Law School

Dialogue On Private Property, Felix S. Cohen

Faculty Scholarship Series

Private Property and Communism
C. Mr. Allen, do you believe in the American form of government?
A. I certainly do.
C. And do you disapprove of communism?
A. I do.
C. Then you must believe that there is an important difference
between communism and our American form of government.
A. Yes. I believe there are many important differences. For one
thing, we have a democratic form of government in this country, and
under communism there is a dictatorship.
C. That is certainly an important difference, but it would be just
as applicable to Fascist or feudal dictatorships as to a ...

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Gaining Compliance Through Non-Verbal Communication , Pamela Peters Pepperdine University

Gaining Compliance Through Non-Verbal Communication , Pamela Peters

Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal

This article will examine the often de-emphasized and overlooked nonverbal aspects of communication. Understanding the impact of non-verbal messages sharpens one's ability to view seemingly superficial mannerisms and movements as potential cues. Further, this article is designed to prompt individual assessment and increase awareness of one's personal non-verbal mannerisms. This article is intended to encourage members of the ADR and legal communities to thoughtfully observe those around them and implement purposeful movements into their interactions, ultimately becoming more powerful and effective communicators and professionals. This article will consider two methods of gaining compliance through non-verbal signals. The first ...

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Legal, Factual And Other Internet Sites For Attorneys And Legal Professionals, Timothy L. Coggins University of Richmond

Legal, Factual And Other Internet Sites For Attorneys And Legal Professionals, Timothy L. Coggins

Law Faculty Publications

This listing of Internet sites for legal, factual, and other research presents a variety of sources for attorneys, law students, law librarians, and others who use the Web. Initially developed for an Advanced Legal Research course and a continuing education session for legal assistants and paralegals, the listing includes sites for primary authorities, both federal and state, as well as URLs for other types of information such as names of possible expert witnesses and biographical and background information about individuals.1

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Book Review: Legal Writing: Getting It Right And Getting It Written By Mary Barnard Ray And Jill J. Ramsfield, Ruth C. Vance Seattle University School of Law

Book Review: Legal Writing: Getting It Right And Getting It Written By Mary Barnard Ray And Jill J. Ramsfield, Ruth C. Vance

Seattle University Law Review

Legal Writing: Getting It Right and Getting It Written is a legal writing aid that is in a class by itself. This book does not fall neatly into the five predictable classifications of legal writing texts: those on legal research, those devoted to brief writing and oral argument, those on how to take law examinations and brief cases, those aimed at polishing grammar and style, and those that treat the subject generally. While there is still no single text that will completely cover any legal writing course, the references in Legal Writing obviate the need for a grammar and style ...

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Finding Legal, Factual, And Other Information In A Digital World, Timothy L. Coggins University of Richmond

Finding Legal, Factual, And Other Information In A Digital World, Timothy L. Coggins

Law Faculty Publications

This updated listing of Internet sites for legal, factual, and other research offers a combination of more established sites and newer sites developed since the publication of the previous listing. The article began as a comprehensive bibliography of research and other sites for an Advanced Legal Research course and a series of continuing education sessions for legal assistants and paralegals.1 The current version includes sites for primary authorities, both federal and state, as well as URLs for other types of information, such as sites that assist in finding expert witnesses and biographical and background information about individuals.

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Health Care Dollars And Regulatory Sense: The Role Of Advanced Practice Nursing, Barbara J. Safriet Yale Law School

Health Care Dollars And Regulatory Sense: The Role Of Advanced Practice Nursing, Barbara J. Safriet

Faculty Scholarship Series

Our current health care "system" has been criticized for providing too little
care, too late, for too few people, at too high a cost. In this Article, Dean
Safriet argues that these problems require a fundamental restructuring of
existing health care delivery systems and more effective utilization of all health
care personnel. Dean Safriet urges immediate legislative reform to reduce the
restrictions that currently constrain advanced practice nurses, especially nurse
practitioners and certified nurse-midwives. Advanced practice nurses have
demonstrated repeatedly that they can provide cost-effective, high-quality
primary care for many of the neediest members of society, but their role in ...

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Deconstructing Crac: Teaching Proposed Findings Of Fact And Conclusions Of Law In A First-Year Legal-Writing Program, Larry Howell The University of Montana School of Law

Deconstructing Crac: Teaching Proposed Findings Of Fact And Conclusions Of Law In A First-Year Legal-Writing Program, Larry Howell

Faculty Law Review Articles

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The Open Access Advantage For American Law Reviews, James M. Donovan, Carol A. Watson, Caroline Osborne 2015 University of Kentucky

The Open Access Advantage For American Law Reviews, James M. Donovan, Carol A. Watson, Caroline Osborne

James M. Donovan

Open access legal scholarship generates a prolific discussion, but few empirical details have been available to describe the scholarly impact of providing unrestricted access to law review articles. The present project fills this gap with specific findings on what authors and law reviews can expect.

Articles available in open access formats enjoy an advantage in citation by subsequent law review works of 53%. For every two citations an article would otherwise receive, it can expect a third when made freely available on the Internet. This benefit is not uniformly spread through the law school tiers. Higher tier journals experience a ...

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Understanding Political Systems: A Comment On Methods Of Comparative Research, T. Koopmans 2015 Court of Justice of the European Communities

Understanding Political Systems: A Comment On Methods Of Comparative Research, T. Koopmans

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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Answering The Call: Flipping The Classroom To Prepare Practice-Ready Attorneys, Alex Berrio Matamoros 2015 CUNY Queens College - School of Law

Answering The Call: Flipping The Classroom To Prepare Practice-Ready Attorneys, Alex Berrio Matamoros

Alex Berrio Matamoros

In the rough and changing landscape of the legal job market, legal employers have called on law schools to prepare “practice ready” attorneys — newly minted members of the bar with better honed practical skills than the first year lawyers of the past. The increasing emphasis on legal skills sheds light on an interesting paradox within legal education; in legal skills courses, those that best lend themselves to active learning experiences, instructors frequently fill valuable classroom time with passive lectures to convey the related theory and best practices. Recently, several legal skills instructors have adopted a flipped classroom model to remedy ...

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Drafting New York Civil-Litigation Documents: Part Xxxviii—Motions To Vacate Default Judgments, Gerald Lebovits 2015 Columbia, Fordham & NYU Law Schools

Drafting New York Civil-Litigation Documents: Part Xxxviii—Motions To Vacate Default Judgments, Gerald Lebovits

Gerald Lebovits

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Protecting The Watchdog: Using The Freedom Of Information Act To Preference The Press (Draft), Erin C. Carroll 2015 Georgetown University Law Center

Protecting The Watchdog: Using The Freedom Of Information Act To Preference The Press (Draft), Erin C. Carroll

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

The fourth estate is undergoing dramatic changes. Many newspaper reporters, already surrounded by a growing number of empty desks, are shifting their focus away from costly investigative reporting and towards amassing Twitter followers and writing the perfect “share line.” Newspapers’ budgets can no longer robustly support accountability journalism and pitching fights against the government. And so, while this busier and noisier media environment may have a desirable democratizing effect—more of us are able to participate in analyzing, debating, and perhaps even making the news—it has not succeeded in filling a role that print journalists have traditionally played well ...

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Popular Culture's Portrayal Of Attorney Decision-Making And It's Consequences- An Analysis Of An Attorney's Internal Ethical Conflict In Film, Tara M. Parente 2014 Barry University

Popular Culture's Portrayal Of Attorney Decision-Making And It's Consequences- An Analysis Of An Attorney's Internal Ethical Conflict In Film, Tara M. Parente

Tara M. Parente

This paper explores how popular culture portrays attorney decision-making and its consequences. This paper compares and contrasts two films in order to exemplify how attorneys are portrayed throughout film and how this carries over into real life. Attorneys are faced with ethical dilemmas at all times, especially throughout career advancement and the decisions made tend to affect every aspect of an attorney's life.

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Book Review: Stalking Phaedrus: International Legal Structures. David Kennedy. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 1987. Pp. 294. 69,-Dm., David J. Bederman 2014 Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, The Hague

Book Review: Stalking Phaedrus: International Legal Structures. David Kennedy. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 1987. Pp. 294. 69,-Dm., David J. Bederman

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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Improving Legal Writing: A Life-Long Learning Process And Continuing Professional Challenge, Kathleen Elliott Vinson 2014 Suffolk University Law School

Improving Legal Writing: A Life-Long Learning Process And Continuing Professional Challenge, Kathleen Elliott Vinson

Touro Law Review

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You've Got Rhythm: Curriculum Planning And Teaching Rhythm At Work In The Legal Writing Classroom, Debra Moss Curtis 2014 Nova Southeastern University Law School

You've Got Rhythm: Curriculum Planning And Teaching Rhythm At Work In The Legal Writing Classroom, Debra Moss Curtis

Touro Law Review

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Fostering A Respect For Our Students, Our Specialty, And The Legal Profession: Introducing Ethics And Professionalism Into The Legal Writing Curriculum, Melissa H. Weresh 2014 Drake University Law School

Fostering A Respect For Our Students, Our Specialty, And The Legal Profession: Introducing Ethics And Professionalism Into The Legal Writing Curriculum, Melissa H. Weresh

Touro Law Review

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Pride And Prejudice: Lessons Legal Writers Can Learn From Literature, Michele G. Falkow 2014 St. Johns University Law School

Pride And Prejudice: Lessons Legal Writers Can Learn From Literature, Michele G. Falkow

Touro Law Review

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"I See And I Remember; I Do And Understand": Teaching Fundamental Structure In Legal Writing Through The Use Of Samples, Judith B. Tracy 2014 Boston College Law School

"I See And I Remember; I Do And Understand": Teaching Fundamental Structure In Legal Writing Through The Use Of Samples, Judith B. Tracy

Touro Law Review

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Students As (Re)Visionaries: Or, Revision, Revision, Revision, Susan M. Taylor 2014 University of Notre Dame Law School

Students As (Re)Visionaries: Or, Revision, Revision, Revision, Susan M. Taylor

Touro Law Review

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Increased Importance Of Legal Writing In The Era Of “The Vanishing Trial”, Edward D. Re 2014 Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center

Increased Importance Of Legal Writing In The Era Of “The Vanishing Trial”, Edward D. Re

Touro Law Review

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Book Review: Guide To International Legal Research. The George Washington Journal Of International Law And Economics. Salem, New Hampshire: Butterworth Legal Publishers, 1990., Carol A. Watson 2014 University of Georgia School of Law

Book Review: Guide To International Legal Research. The George Washington Journal Of International Law And Economics. Salem, New Hampshire: Butterworth Legal Publishers, 1990., Carol A. Watson

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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Drafting New York Civil-Litigation Documents: Part Xxxvii—Motions To Reargue And Renew Continued, Gerald Lebovits 2014 Columbia, Fordham & NYU Law Schools

Drafting New York Civil-Litigation Documents: Part Xxxvii—Motions To Reargue And Renew Continued, Gerald Lebovits

Gerald Lebovits

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Empirical Law And Economics, Jonah B. Gelbach, Jonathan Klick 2014 University of Pennsylvania Law School

Empirical Law And Economics, Jonah B. Gelbach, Jonathan Klick

Faculty Scholarship

Empirical work has grown in importance in law and economics. This growth coincides with improvements in research designs in empirical microeconomics more generally. In this essay, we provide a stylized discussion of some trends over the last two or three decades, linking the credibility revolution in empirical micro to the ascendancy of empirical work in law and economics. We then provide some methodological observations about a number of commonly used approaches to estimating policy effects. The literature on the economics of crime and criminal procedure illustrates the ways in which many of these techniques have been used successfully. Other fields ...

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Scholarly Incentives, Scholarship, Article Selection Bias, And Investment Strategies For Today's Law Schools, Dan Subotnik, laura ross 2014 touro law center

Scholarly Incentives, Scholarship, Article Selection Bias, And Investment Strategies For Today's Law Schools, Dan Subotnik, Laura Ross

Touro Law Review

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Books Received, Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law 2014 University of Georgia School of Law

Books Received, Georgia Journal Of International And Comparative Law

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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Book Review: Sources Of State Practice In International Law, Anne Burnett 2014 University of Georgia School of Law

Book Review: Sources Of State Practice In International Law, Anne Burnett

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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Popular Authors

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Paul Birch University of Richmond

Jessica Clark Georgetown University Law Center

Taryn Rucinski Pace University

Zygmunt Plater Boston College Law School

Larry Howell The University of Montana School of Law

Kristen Robbins-Tiscione Georgetown University Law Center

Kristen Robbins-Tiscione Georgetown University Law Center

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John Feerick Fordham Law School

Suzanne Graham University of Georgia School of Law

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