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I'M A Lawyer Too--Memoirs Of The Ambitious Legal Writing Professor, Prentice L. White

Prentice L White

I’M A LAWYER TOO—MEMOIRS OF THE AMBITIOUS LEGAL WRITING PROFESSOR ABSTRACT Legal Writing professors are faced with so many challenges and hurdles in the world of academia. Our salaries are lower, our offices are smaller, and our work schedules with students are much more tedious than that of tenure and tenure-track faculty members. However, there is another hurdle that is not as obvious as the other challenges, but it is the most serious hurdle we have ever faced—proving that we too are lawyers and not simply writing teachers. There are so many stereotypes in our profession that we sometimes have …