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The 2010 Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing Institute will be in Marco Island, Florida. More information can be found here.
 The Legal Writing Institute (LWI) is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving legal writing by providing a forum for discussion and scholarship about legal writing, analysis, and research. LWI promotes these activities through its publications, workshops, specialty conferences, and the national biennial conferences held in even-numbered years. The Legal Writing Institute has over 2,100 members and includes representatives from 38 different countries. We are the second largest organization of law professors in the United States. Only the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) involves more members of the legal academic community. LWI sponsors many different working committees and projects.
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LWI Sends Letter to the ABA
The Standards Review Committee of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar is charged with reviewing proposed changes in or additions to Standards, Interpretations, Rules, Policies, Procedures and Criteria. Proposed changes are referred to the committee by the Council for its review and recommendations. Often the committee asks for public comments on issues it has before it. LWI filed this comment, in response to the report of the Standards Review Committee regarding the proposal to delete Interpretations 402-1 and 402-2. LWI also plans to testify on this issue at the public hearing in San Diego on January 9, 2009.
LWI letter sent in Support of Plain Language in Government Act
LWI has sent a letter to Senator Bob Bennett supporting the Plain Language in Government Act.
Applied Legal Storytelling
July 22 to July 24, 2009 This second Applied Legal Storytelling conference was imagined and realized because the conference organizers wished to create a sustainable dialogue about the application of storytelling elements to the practice and pedagogy of law. This conference continues the discussion began at the first Once Upon a Legal Time conference held at City Law School in London in 2007. We are committed to spotlighting the concept of a story in ways that will directly and tangibly benefit law students (i.e. future lawyers) and legal practitioners (i.e. former law students). The 2009 conference, Chapter Two: Once Upon A Legal Story will include presentations by over fifty legal professionals from diverse areas of legal study and practice. Presenters will add their unique takes on this new area of legal scholarship that seeks to explore the role of narrative in legal practice and legal education. For more information and registration, click here.
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