13th Biennial Conference
Legal Writing Institute
July 14-17, 2008
Indiana University
 School of Law-
Indianapolis

530 W. New York St.
Indianapolis, IN
46202

2008 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

Please review the schedule below before registering. Each presentation can be identified with a program code in parentheses following the title. We ask that you let us know which of the programs you are most likely to attend by noting the program codes on your registration form. If you have any questions about the program, please contact Co-Chairs Ruth Anne Robbins (ruthanne@camden.rutgers.edu) or Mel Weresh (melissaweresh@drake.edu).

Special Critiquing Workshop (Wednesday):

There will be a Critiquing Workshop on Wednesday of the conference that requires additional advance registration (the workshop will last from approximately 8:30am - 2:30pm):

Workshop on Critiquing Student Work - Presented by Joan Malmud, University of Oregon. The Workshop on Critiquing Student Work is part of the New Teacher's Track. This workshop, based on Dan Barnett's Triage in the Trenches, 38 U Toledo L. Rev 651 (2007), is especially designed for newer teachers looking for hands-on suggestions from some of the Institute's most experienced teachers. The workshop will include:

8:30 - 9:30
The first draft: Critiquing organization and analysis
9:45 - 11:45
Practice critique and small group discussion
2:30 - 3:30
The rewrite: Critiquing writing skills

This schedule includes a session on providing effective written feedback and small group break-out sessions during which participants will work together on critiquing student samples. Participants will receive materials to prepare for the workshop when they register.

Space is limited and advance registration is required. To register for the workshop, please fill out the registration form at: https://www.law.uoregon.edu/faculty/jmalmud/lwiworkshop.php.

POSTERS: Detailed information on posters can be found on the LWI Biennial Poster Committee Site, located on TWEN. To access the site, log onto TWEN, click on "Add a Course," and scroll down to "National TWEN Courses." Click on "LWI Biennial Poster Committee Site" and check the box to add the site to your TWEN courses.

Monday, July 14, 2008 Printable Schedule (PDF)

9:00am-12:30pm LWI Board Meeting
2:00pm ALWD Membership Meeting
5:00pm-7:00pm Opening Reception at the Indianapolis Artsgarden
 (sponsored by Thomson West)
Scholarship & Awards Presentation, Poster Openings

Tuesday, July 15, 2008 Printable Schedule (PDF)

8:00am Breakfast, Welcome & Plenary in the Hyatt Regency Ballroom
 (sponsored by LexisNexis)
Divine Secrets of the Ha-Ha Sisterhood

Sheila Simon, Mary Beth Beazley, Hollee Temple [summary]
9:30am Transfer to the IU School of Law-Indianapolis
Session 1 - 10:30-11:00am
T1A    Advice From the Editors: Getting Your Legal Writing Article Published
James B. Levy, Kristin Gerdy, Coleen M. Barger, Michael R. Smith [summary]
T1B    The Changing Nature of Legal Research and Legal Authority in the Electronic Age
Ellie Margolis [summary]
T1C    An Exploration of the Elements of Expert Performance in Legal Writing
Shelly Kiierstead [summary]
T1D    We're Quacking as Fast as We Can: Building a Tenure-Track Legal Writing Program from the Ground Up
Terry Seligmann, Kevin Oates, Emily Zimmerman [summary]
T1E    Beyond Chalk and Talk: Active Learning Activities for the Classroom
Karen Sneddon [summary]
T1F    Class in the Classroom
Lucille Jewel [summary]
T1G    Using "Real World" Documents to Teach Persuasive Writing
Beth Hirschfelder Wilensky [summary]
Session 2 - 11:30am-12:15pm
T2A    Responding to Academic Misconduct of Millennial Students
Tracy L. McGaugh [summary]
T2B    Demystifying the SSRN Process: How to Make it Work for You
Susan H. Duncan [summary]
T2C    "The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades": A Study of Hope, Optimism and Well-Being in Law School
Allison Martin & Kevin Rand [summary]
T2D    Life-long Legal Writing: Developing Attorney Writing Skills Within Law Firm Practice
Kris Butler, Mike Cavanaugh, Kathleen Dillon Narko [summary]
T2E    Law Students' Case Reading and Reasoning Study: Final Results and Tools for Legal Writing Teachers
Dorie Evensen & Jim Stratman [summary]
T2F    Enhancing the Pedagogy of Oral Argument and First-Year Moot Court
Mary S. Lawrence, Thomas McDonnell, Henry T. Wihnyk [summary]
T2G    The Science Behind the ADA
Suzanne E. Rowe [summary]
12:15-1:30pm Lunch & Lunchtime Discussion Roundtables:
• Legal Writing Professors of Color
• Pink Ink
• Moot Court Advisors

Session 3 - 1:30-2:15pm
T3A    "Have You Got a Minute to Talk?": How Novice and Experienced Legal Writing Professors Can Learn From Each Other
Terry Pollman, Sara Gordon [summary]
Forming a Clinical/Legal Writing Scholarship Colloquium
Harriet N. Katz [summary]
T3B    Accomplishment, Independence, and Assessment: Final Exams in the Legal Writing Context
Suzanne Rabe [summary]
Incorporating Performance Exams into a Legal Writing Course
Cristina Knolton [summary]
T3C    Putting the R in LRW
Rebecca S. Trammell, Brooke J. Bowman [summary]
T3D    Integration of Statutory-Interpretation Skills into Your Existing Writing and Analysis Curriculum: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives
Mark Burge, Roger Simon [summary]
Analysis as More Than Case Synthesis: Teaching Statutory Analysis in a First Year Legal Writing Course
E. Joan Blum [summary]
T3E    Ethics and Professionalism in Legal Writing: Blawgs, Briefs, and Professional Identity
Carol McCrehan Parker, Judy M.Cornett, Penny J.White [summary]
T3F    Posters: Detailed information on posters can be found on the LWI Biennial Poster Committee Site, located on TWEN. To access the site, log onto TWEN, click on “Add a Course,” and scroll down to “National TWEN Courses.” Click on “LWI Biennial Poster Committee Site” and check the box to add the site to your TWEN courses.
Portrait of a Writing Specialist
Kim M. Baker [summary]
Judges and Gender-Neutral Language: Whether They Use It and What We Can Learn from Their Practices
Judith D. Fischer [summary]
"Plays Well with Others": What Contract-drafting Exercises Can Teach First-Year Students about the Practice of Law and Themselves
Travis Dale Jones, Rosemary L. Dillon [summary]
Student Body Diversity: A View from the Trenches
Gail S. Stephenson [summary]
T3G    Advanced Writing Instruction in Small Group Sessions
David Ritchie, Suzianne Painter-Thorne, Jennifer Sheppard [summary]
Session 4 - 2:30-3:15pm
T4A    Changing Schools, Changing Lives: How to Get Out There, Get Noticed, and Get the Job You Want
Linda Edwards, Lisa McElroy, Kirsten Davis, Molly Lien [summary]
T4B    Bar Exam Prep Course Seeking Long Term Relationship: Legal Writing, Academic Support, Both, or Something Else
Ben Bratman, Susan Bakhshian [summary]
T4C    Harnessing the Power of Nonverbal Persuasion: How You Can Make Your Students Better Advocates and Yourself a Better Teacher
Michael Higdon & Rebecca Scharf [summary]
T4D    Sex, Lies, and Law Reviews: Uncovering the Mysteries of Those Who Have All the Power -- Student Editors
Julie Oseid, Leah M. Christensen [summary]
T4E    Anatomy of an Appellate Brief Problem
Amy Neville [summary]
Mapping The Way: A Guide to Creating Memorandum Assignments
Judy Rosenbaum [summary]
T4F    Grade Disputes: How to Prevent (or Win) Them
Melody Richardson Daily [summary]
T4G    Engaging, Entertaining, and Effective: Using Handheld Response Pads in the Legal Methods Classroom
Susan Chesler, Ann Fruth, Amanda Smith [summary]
T4H    Taking Off in a New Direction: Ground Rules and Flight Plans for Legal Writing Specialists
Mary Barnard Ray, Anne Enquist [summary]
3:30pm • Association of Legal Writing Specialists Meeting
• Board of Editors of the Journal of the Legal Writing Institute
• LWI Idea Bank Committee Meeting

5:30pm New Member Dinners
Session 5 - 8:00pm-9:30pm
"Popcorn Sessions"
These will be informal presentations with a lot of group conversations and interactions. The purpose is to foster more dialogue among conference attendees. These sessions will be conducted at the Hyatt hotel.

T5A    Live Grading
Mark E, Wojcik [summary]
T5B    Publishing Books in LRW and Beyond: How We Did It and How You Can Too
Sarah Ricks, Michael D. Murray, Christy DeSanctis, Ruth Ann McKinney [summary]
T5C    Racing to Excellence:
Beyond Caps and Long Term Contracts -- the Path to Full Status
Darby Dickerson, Sue Liemer [summary]
The Transition to a Directorless Program
Susan DeJarnatt, Kim Flanery Coats, Daniel Barnett [summary]
T5D    Additional Q&A about Journal of Legal Writing issues

Wednesday, July 16, 2008 Printable Schedule (PDF)

8:15am-9:30am Breakfast at the Law School
Session 1 - 9:30-10:15am
W1A    Geek 101: Using Technology Effectively (Without Having to Learn the Difference Between Star Wars and Star Trek)
Jan Levine, Kenneth D. Chestek, John Mollenkamp [summary]
W1B    Taming Hubris: Using Feedback Theory to Ease the Triumphant Undergraduate Writers Transition to Novice Legal Writer
Sheila Rodriguez [summary]
W1C    The Student Initiative
Jill Ramsfield [summary]
W1D    "A Matter of Style": Preparing First-Year Law Students to Write to Audiences with Distinct and Diverse Stylistic Preferences
Jennifer Murphy Romig [summary]
W1E    Mind the Gaps: Teaching Students to Recognize and Address Flaws in their Analysis
Christopher R. Trudeau [summary]
W1F    Priming for Pro Bono and Public Service: LRW's Role
Deborah Schmedemann [summary]
W1G    The Embedded Rule
David S. Romantz [summary]
Session 2 - 10:30-11:15am
W2A    Playing With Fire: The Science of Confronting Negative Information in Persuasive Legal Writing
Kathy Stanchi [summary]
W2B    Effective Methods for Teaching Legal Writing Online
David Thomson [summary]
W2C    Clearly, Using Intensifiers Is Very Bad
Lance N. Long [summary]
W2D    Teaching How Legal Writing Fits into Law Practice
Louis Sirico, Nancy Schultz, Libby White [summary]
W2E    Techniques for Better Legal Drafting: Lessons from the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
Joseph Kimble [summary]
Lessons Learned from Administrative Law Writing
Elizabeth Fajans [summary]
W2F    Politics & Persuasion: Lessons in Logic & Argument from Political Communication
Kris Panikowski, Nicola Kean [summary]
W2G    Religious Lawyering and Legal Writing, Or, Do Religious Perspectives Help Teach Students Anything About IRAC?
Ted Becker [summary]
Session 3 - 11:30am-12:15pm
W3A    Developing a Methodology for Comparing Discourse Communities
Richard K. Neumann, Jr., Amy K. Langenfeld [summary]
W3B    Teaching to Different Learning Styles in the LR&W Classroom
Catherine Cameron, Jeff Minneti, Robin A. Boyle [summary]
W3C    From Aristotle to Abraham Lincoln to Clarence Darrow and Everything In Between: Bringing Persuasive Techniques Alive in the Classroom by Using and Analyzing Political Speeches, Courtroom Arguments, Supreme Court Briefs, and Historical Reenactments as Teaching Tools
Rachel Croskery-Roberts [summary]
W3D    Podcasting in LRR&W: Downloading the Greatest Hits
Kathleen Elliott Vinson, Judith B. Tracy [summary]
W3E    Teaching the Unwritten Rules of Lawyering
Ursula Weigold [summary]
W3F    A Narrative Approach to Teaching Grammar
William E. Blais [summary]
The “Grammar Bee” – Taking the Pain Out of One-Ls’ Grammatical Deficiencies
Ed Telfeyan [summary]
W3G    Using Live Cases to Teach Legal Research, Analysis, and Communication: Problem-Based Service Learning
Tracy Bach [summary]
12:15-1:30pm Lunch
1:30-2:15pm LWI Membership Meeting
Session 4 - 2:30-3:15pm
W4A    ABA updates
Richard K. Neumann, Jr.
ABA site teams
Ralph Brill, Mary Beth Beazley
W4B    Redesigning the Mold: An Alternative Approach to Teaching First Year Legal Skills
Amy Vorenberg, Sophie Sparrow et al. [summary]
W4C    Legislative Writing: Why the "New" Legal Writing Frontier Should Be Explored
Meredith L. Schalick [summary]
W4D    The YouTube of Professional Practice -- Instant Oral Advocacy Review and Feedback thru Revolutionary Web-Based Technology
Mark E. Hoch, Grace H. Barry, William Monroe [summary]
W4E    Race and the Law School Classroom
William Y. Chin [summary]
W4F    VoiceLynx - a PAR 83 course: Tee-ching Through Time Saving Technology
Linda J. Hiemer, Jan Wise [summary]
W4G    Posters:
From One Part-Time Student to Another: A Lesson Plan From the Trenches
Ann Picard [summary]
Statutory Construction and the Life Cycle of Disability Definition
Kathryn A. Sampson [summary]
Illustrated Instruction: Using Images to Help Teach Basic Organizational Structures of Legal Writing
Craig T. Smith [summary]
Session 5 - 3:30-4:15pm
W5A    Getting Involved with LWI: Committee Fair
W5B    Traveling with LWI (Writers Workshop, other conferences)
W5C    Show Me the LWI Money (grants, innovations)
6:00-11:00pm Dinner at the Eiteljorg Museum (sponsored by Aspen Publishers)

Thursday, July 17, 2008 Printable Schedule (PDF)

8:15am-9:30am Breakfast at the Law School
Session 1 - 9:30-10:15am
R1A    Defining the Purpose and Parameters of Scholarship for Legal Writing Professors
Mitchell Nathanson, Kristen Triscione, Linda Berger [summary]
R1B    The Real World: Law School: Professionalism in Electronic Communication
Melissa H. Weresh, Lisa Penland [summary]
R1C    Mapping Thoughts and Deepening Student Analysis Via Diagramming
Laurie C. Kadoch [summary]
R1D    They're Not Enemies, They're Untapped Allies: Strategies for Handling Disruptive, Disaffected, and Plain-Old Bad Students
Allison Ortlieb, Susan Thrower [summary]
R1E    Co-dependent No More? When Teaching Becomes Enabling
Lisa Eichorn, Jan Baker [summary]
R1F    Finding Time for Scholarship
Dorothy Bisbee [summary]
Grading: Using Spreadsheets and Rubrics
Timothy D. Blevins, Brenda Gibson [summary]
Effective and Efficient Electronic Commenting
Christine E. Rollins [summary]
R1G    Posters:
Connecting the Dots: Using Connected Legal Writing Assignments to Help Students Think outside the Assignment and About the Bigger Picture
Candace Mueller Centeno [summary]
Moving From First to Final Draft -- An Empirical Study on Motivating Students to Move Through the Writing Process
Carol Wallinger [summary]
Not-So-Magnificent Obsession: Performance vs. Professionalism
Jennifer B. Horn [summary]
Session 2 - 10:30-11:15am
R2A    Was Colonel Sanders a Terrorist? The Ethics of Storytelling in Litigation
Steve Johansen [summary]
R2B    Effective Presentation of Statistics in Legal Writing
Danton Asher Berube [summary]
R2C    "You Had Me at 'Hello'" -- Structuring the Classroom Experience to Optimize Learning
Wanda M. Temm, Barbara E. Wilson, Judith Popper [summary]
R2D    Goodbye to Kingsfield? Increasing Student Autonomy in the Legal Writing Classroom
Deanne Lawrence Andrews [summary]
R2E    Dealing with Race, Culture and Gender in the Classroom
Kathryn Mercer [summary]
Gender and Law School Performance: How Legal Writing Professors Can Bolster the Performance of Women Law Students
Christine Ventner [summary]
R2F    Using Comparative Legal Principals to Teach International Students in U.S. Law
Teresa Brostoff, Ann Sisheimer [summary]
Expanding Your Horizons: Going Global
Marilyn Walter [summary]
Session 3 - 11:30am-12:15pm
R3A    Beyond Powerpoint and Movie Clips: How to Reach Your Full Potential as a Teacher
Mary Garvey Algero, Robin Wellford Slocum [summary]
R3B    Does Voice Exist in Legal Writing?
Chris Rideout [summary]
R3C    Reality Bites or Does it? Incorporating Learning Theory and Student Expectations in Problem Design for a First-Year Writing Course
Julie Spanbauer, Sonia Bychkov Green, Maureen Kordesh [summary]
R3D    Teaching Basic Contract Drafting to First Year Law Students in Four Hours or Less
Sue Payne [summary]
Re-imagining Collaborate Learning: New Technologies and Possibilities
Thomas D. Cobb, Sarah Kaltsounis, Theodore Myrhe [summary]
R3F    Creating an Effective Syllabus
Nancy Soonpaa [summary]
Teaching Professionalism and Efficient Document Production With an Exercise in Timekeeping
Grace Wigal [summary]
12:15-1:30pm Lunch - A Hoosier Cookout!
12:30pm Meeting of the Editorial Committee of the Journal of ALWD
Session 4 - 1:30-2:15pm
R4A    Communicating with the Millennials: Teaching and Preparing the Next Generation of Lawyers
Mary N. Bowman, Janet K.G. Dickson [summary]
R4B    Why & How to Incorporate Visuals: Poster Presentations, Handouts and Beyond
Ruth Anne Robbins, Alison Julien [summary]
R4C    Designing (or Re-Designing) Your Course to Improve Learning and Teaching -- Integrated Instructional Design Tools
Linda S. Anderson [summary]
R4D    Mentoring in the Classroom: A Legal Writing Trifecta
Michael G. Massey [summary]
Selecting, Training and Supervising Student Tutors
Jennifer Brendel, Alice Perlin [summary]
R4E    Methods of Demystifying and Critiquing Analogical Reasoning in Legal Analysis
Stephanie Hartung, Shailini George [summary]
R4F    Aestheticism and Legal Writing
Adam Todd [summary]
2:30pm Closing Ice Cream Social