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"Reality Legal Writing": Using a Client Interview for Establishing the Facts in a Memo Assignment

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Ben Bratman

Brutal Choices in Curricular Design ...

Using Both Nonlegal Contexts and Assigned Doctrinal Course Material to Improve Students' Outlining and Exam-Taking Skills

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Charles R. Calleros

Teachable Moments for Teachers ...

Failing My ESL Students: My Plagiarism Epiphany

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Alison Craig

Writers' Toolbox ...

The Semicolon's Undeserved Mystique

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Anne Enquist

Teachable Moments for Students ...

Finding Low-Cost Supreme Court Materials on the Web

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Beth Youngdale

Toto, I Don't Think We're in Practice Anymore: Making the Transition from Editing as a Practitioner to Giving Feedback as a Legal Writing Professor

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Emily Zimmerman

Adding Method and Alleviating Madness: A Process for Teaching Citation

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Joan Malmud

Don't Judge a Course by Its Credits: Convincing Students That Legal Writing Is Critical to Their Success

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Christine G. Mooney

Tools for Teaching the Rewriting Process

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Jennifer Brendel

Writing Tips ...

Client Communications:
Delivering a Clear Message

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Joseph M. Williams and Gregory G. Colomb

Legal Research and Writing Resources

Recent Publications

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Donald J. Dunn

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