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Breaking Bad Briefs, Heidi K. Brown Apr 2017

Breaking Bad Briefs, Heidi K. Brown

Articles & Chapters

This article focuses on the practical effects of bad briefing on our legal process and suggests a holistic remedy: a system-wide commitment to striving to instill in law students and lawyers a respect for legal writing as, not only a fundamental competency of our chosen profession, but a talent that requires initial training, focused study, repeated practice, and conscious evolution throughout the arc of one’s legal education and career. Effective brief-writing is not as simple as a quick cut-and-paste job, a template download, or a stream-of-consciousness exercise, even for lawyers who repeatedly practice one type of case. Part I of …


Experiential Legal Writing Before Law School: Undergraduate Judicial Opinions, Tom Rozinski Jan 2017

Experiential Legal Writing Before Law School: Undergraduate Judicial Opinions, Tom Rozinski

Journal of Experiential Learning

No abstract provided.


Bluebook Bootcamp Spring 2017 Jan 2017

Bluebook Bootcamp Spring 2017

Presentations

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Not So Very Bad Beginnings: What Fiction Can Teach Lawyers About Beginning A Persuasive Legal Narrative Before A Court, Cathren Koehlert-Page Jan 2017

Not So Very Bad Beginnings: What Fiction Can Teach Lawyers About Beginning A Persuasive Legal Narrative Before A Court, Cathren Koehlert-Page

Faculty Scholarship

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Fifth Colonial Frontier Legal Writing Conference Drafting Statutes And Rules Pedagogy, Practice, And Politics (Foreword), Jan M. Levine Dec 2016

Fifth Colonial Frontier Legal Writing Conference Drafting Statutes And Rules Pedagogy, Practice, And Politics (Foreword), Jan M. Levine

Jan M. Levine

On December 3, 2016, the Duquesne University School of Law hosted the first national conference on drafting statutes and rules, as our fifth biennial conference on legal writing pedagogy, resulting in this issue of the Duquesne Law Review. The conference theme and agenda was developed by the faculty of the Legal Research and Writing Program and was supported by our law school administration and our generous alumni, with additional assistance from LexisNexis and Wolters Kluwer Legal Education. The theme of this conference was “Statutes and Rules: Pedagogy, Practice, and Politics.”


Bluebook Bootcamp Spring 2017 Dec 2016

Bluebook Bootcamp Spring 2017

Khelani Z.A. Clay

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