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July 2025 Bootcamp Registration is Open!

The Legal Writing Institute invites all new legal writing teachers to join our annual New Teacher Training Bootcamp—open to anyone in their first few years of teaching 1L legal writing.

10th Biennial Applied Legal Storytelling Conference

Click below for more details on registration, accommodations, and programming. We look forward to seeing you in Ann Arbor in July!

Read a Letter from LWI President Abigail Perdue

President Abigail Perdue shares important updates and reflections on the Institute’s goals, values, and upcoming initiatives.

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Joint Comment Regarding Standard 405

Click here to read the Joint Comment to the Council regarding Standard 405 and see LWI’s ongoing advocacy efforts to improve the status of legal writing faculty nationwide. 

2023-24 Joint ALWD/LWI Survey

The report on the Individual Phase of the 2023-24 Joint ALWD/LWI Survey results is now available! Thank you to all members of the community who responded, and special thanks to the Joint Survey Committee, led by LWI co-chair Ted Becker and ALD co-chair Marci Rosenthal. 

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The Latest

Standard 405 Advocacy Updates

You can read about and stay updated on the joint effort to revise Standard 405 on the Professional Status Committee and Status-Related Advocacy page. You can also click here to read the most recent Joint Comment supporting and suggesting revisions to the Council’s August 2024 proposal.