School of Law
Building Connections: Connecting Legal Writing to the Broader Curriculum, the Bar Exam, Practice & Beyond
This conference will highlight the connections legal writing has throughout legal education and practice. It will answer questions like: How can law schools integrate legal writing with academic support and/or bar support? What data can be derived from legal writing to inform decisions about bar preparation efforts? How to connect legal writing to practice for law students? What can instructors do to help students better connect with our instruction?
SCHEDULE
| 8:30 a.m. | Registration and Light Breakfast |
| 9:00 a.m. |
Keeping It Real: Moving Beyond Simulations and Hypotheticals to Teach Legal Skills Baby Stepping: Slowing the Pace for Today's Legal Writing Students |
| 10:20 a.m. |
Break |
| 10:40 a.m. |
Delighting in the Details: Connecting Legal Writing to Document Drafting in Clinic Do As I Say and As I Do |
| 12:00 p.m. |
Lunch Break |
| 1:20 p.m. |
Building the Bridge: Strategies for an Integrated Legal Writing, Academic Support
and Bar Preparation Program The LRW Classroom and Student Bar Passage Rates: Can student success in the former
predict student success in the latter? |
| 2:40 p.m. | Break |
| 3:00 p.m. |
LRW and ASP Unite: Reading, Writing, and the Student Success Continuum Any Questions????? The Trouble with Vague Prompts |
| 4:20 p.m. |
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Workshop Date & Location
Friday, December 13, 2019
University of ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law
1 North Front Street
ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½, TN 38103
Hotel Information
Courtyard Marriott ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ - Downtown
75 Jefferson Ave.
ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½, TN 38103
Transportation Information
ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ International Airport
GPS: 2491 Winchester Rd, ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½, TN 38116
Taxi, Lyft, Uber – Paid parking is available nearby.