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Law School Web Sites for Legal Writing
The Association of Legal Writing Specialists
is a group of writing specialists and writing advisors who work
within legal writing programs in law schools. Although writing specialists
perform a wide variety of services for their respective legal writing
programs and law schools, their principal role is usually to work
with law students individually on their writing. Members of the
Association of Legal Writing Specialists meet at each Legal Writing
Institute national conference to share ideas and exchange teaching
information. The members have also been responsible for a regular
column in the Second Draft, the newsletter for the Legal Writing
Institute. For more information about the Association of Legal Writing
Specialists, please contact Anne Enquist at Seattle University School
of Law at (206) 398-4022 or ame@seattleu.edu.
The
American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) was founded in
1906 to promote and enhance the value of law libraries to the legal
and public communities, to foster the profession of law librarianship,
and to provide leadership in the field of legal information.
The American Association of Law Libraries
53 W. Jackson, Suite 940
Chicago, IL 60604
Phone: (312) 939-4764
Fax: (312) 431-1097
Executive Director - Roger H. Parent
ABA-Net
is your on-line guide to the American Bar Association’s (ABA)
wide range of member programs, customized services, authoritative
publications, and discounted products.
You can also join one or more ABA Sections, Divisions, or Forums,
such as the Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar,
and you'll enhance your expertise with cutting-edge authoritative
information on your specialty or interest, as well as gain important
networking opportunities with others who have similar interests
from across the nation. As a member of the ABA, you may also register
on-line for CLE seminars, including the no-cost, convenient ABA
Connection monthly teleconference, and ABA meetings and events.
The
Association of Legal Writing Directors (ALWD pronounced all-wid)
is a professional association of program directors for legal research,
writing, analysis, and advocacy curricula from law schools throughout
the United States, Canada and Australia. ALWD meets biennially,
is governed by an elected Board of Directors and Officers. ALWD
is a non-profit organization.
The
American Society of Writers on Legal Subjects Scribes is an
association of judges, lawyers, legal editors, writers, and law
teachers, who are dedicated to the improvement of legal writing.
For over forty years, SCRIBES has pursued that objective by sponsoring
writing competitions, workshops, and institutes, and by publishing
legal periodicals, including the first scholarly journal devoted
exclusively to effective written legal communication, The SCRIBES
Journal of Legal Writing.
The Annual Meeting is held at the ABA meeting in August. Upon conclusion
of the business portion of this meeting, a prominent judge, practitioner,
professor, or legal publisher speaks on some aspect of legal writing.
The Scrivener is the official newsletter of SCRIBES, published four
times a year. Officers and members are encouraged to use this forum
to sound off on legal-writing matters.
During the year, members perform a number of services for the profession.
One is to serve on committees that choose the winners of the annual
Book Award, Brief Writing Competition, and Student Law Review Competition.
The awards, more than any other function of SCRIBES, exemplify the
members' efforts to promote good legal writing.
Legal
writing professors are on the Web! Visit and learn from legal
writing sites around the globe. In some instances, there are links
for both the law school and for individual professors.
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