St. John's School of Law is pleased to host the Second
Annual Empire State Legal Writing Conference on:
Teaching Legal Writing Effectively to Prepare Students for
Practice
Featuring over 50 presenters from around the country, the
Conference will focus on creative teaching ideas attendees can
implement immediately in their own classroom. Various themes will
intertwine throughout the day, including:
- Ethics, professionalism, and plagiarism
- Reaching today’s millennials
- Grading efficiently
- Perspectives from the bench, bar, and clinical programs
- Experiential techniques
- Polishing drafts
- Oral presentations
- Lessons from international law
- Current-day email memos
The Conference keynote speaker, Professor Tina Stark, will
illuminate key points in teaching transactional drafting. Her
afternoon workshop will address “endgame” provisions in
contracts.
Event Photos
The pre-conference
ALWD Scholars’ Forum is designed to complement the main
Conference offerings. During this workshop, up to 16 participants
will present their scholarship ideas or works-in-progress for
discussion and critique by legal writing scholars.
Dates/Times
AWLD Scholars’ Forum | Thursday, May 12, 2011 | 11:30 a.m.-5
p.m.
Main Conference | Friday, May 13, 2011 | 8 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
Location
St. John’s
University Manhattan Campus
101 Murray Street
New York, NY 10007
Full Conference Agenda
Please visit the
Full Conference Agenda page for the full list of conference
sessions, presenters and speakers. The
AWLD Scholars’ Forum page details the pre-conference Forum’s
agenda.
Fee
There is no fee for attending the main Conference or the
pre-conference AWLD Scholars’ Forum.
Registration
To register for the main Conference, please complete and submit the
online
Conference Registration form by Monday, May 9, 2011. Walk-in
registration will be permitted only if seats are available.
To register for the ALWD Scholars’ Forum, please complete and
submit the online
Forum Registration form by Monday, May 2, 2011.
Pre-registration is required and registration is limited to the
first 16 registrants. Send your work-in-progress to Robin Boyle at
boyler@stjohns.edu.
Accommodations
To learn more about accommodations available to conference
participants, please visit the
Conference Accommodations page.
More Information
Maureen Mulligan
Associate Director of Special Events
St. John’s School of Law
mulligam@stjohns.edu
(718) 990-1950
Conference Host
St. John’s School of Law
Conference Sponsors
LexisNexis
Wolters
Kluwer
Thomson Reuters