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A Proposal To The Aba: One Required Legal Writing Course For All Six Semesters Of Law School, Adam Lamparello
A Proposal To The Aba: One Required Legal Writing Course For All Six Semesters Of Law School, Adam Lamparello
Adam Lamparello
If you decide to run a marathon, but stop training after the eighth week of a sixteen-week training schedule, you will not finish. Why? Your muscles atrophied, and your stamina declined. If you stop writing after the second or third semester of law school, you will not become a good legal writer. Why? Your skills atrophied. You did not develop mental memory—just like the marathon runner did not develop muscle memory.
Why did the marathon runner stop? Maybe life got in the way, or training became too hard. But it’s the difficult moments—the grind—that separates the marathon runner from the …