Paper Versus Pixels: Please Don’t Take My Pencil Away The Honorable Jean Rosenbluth United States Magistrate Judge, United States District Court for the Central District of California I’m not old. (If you know me and think otherwise, please keep it to yourself.) But when I sit down at work in front of my bank of…
DetailsEditor’s Note Welcome to the twenty-first volume of Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute. “Oh, the places you’ll go!”1 This is the title to a popular Dr. Seuss book that is usually given as a gift for graduations. But this title is also a good theme for volume 21,…
DetailsIntroduction to Essays on Technology in Courtrooms and Judicial Chambers Welcome to our second online volume of the Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute. It has been more than fifty years since Marshall McLuhan first proposed that “The medium is the message,”1 and scholars have been teasing out the multiple ways in…
DetailsRedefining the Workplace: Technology and the Modern Judicial Chambers The Honorable Robert N. Davis United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims Introduction New and evolving technology has had and will continue to have a revolutionary impact on how the judiciary conducts business. Significantly, these technologies are drastically changing both the way we work…
DetailsReading, Writing, and Listening in the Bankruptcy Courts The Honorable James E. Massey (Ret.) United States Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of Georgia Bankruptcy cases give rise to a broad spectrum of disputes that vary in legal and factual complexity. The uneven expertise of attorneys, the rise in the number of debtors without counsel and the…
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I. Introduction II. Background A. Examining Legal Pedagogy B. Origins of Our Study III. Methodology A. Ethnographic Research B. Junior Associates as Informants IV. Results A. What They Were Reading and How B. What They Were Writing and How C. The Interpersonal Situations They Faced V. Implications A. Reading Skills B. Writing Skills C. Workplace…
DetailsI. Classical Models for Ethos A. The Emergence of Ethos B. Isocrates and the Development of Good Character C. Aristotle and the Representation of Good Character II. Ethos and Models of the Self—Classical and Modern III. Modern Ethos, the Discoursal Self, and Contemporary Legal Writing IV. Ethos in Contemporary Advice on Legal Rhetoric…
DetailsI. Introduction: The Obligation To Teach Grammar And Punctuation Successfully To All Students II. Obstacles To Teaching Fundamental Skills Such As Grammar And Punctuation III. Values, Instructional Sequence, And Assessment In The Msu Writing Seminar Program A. Defining Values B. Instructional Sequence C. Creation and Content of the Assessments IV. STUDY METHODS A. Sample Size…
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