Call for Nominations

The Legal Writing Institute invites nominations for the Teresa Godwin Phelps Award for Scholarship in Legal Communication, honoring outstanding work published in 2025. Nominations are due by 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time on February 27, 2026.

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2025 Scholarship Grants – Apply by March 14

LWI, ALWD, and LexisNexis are accepting applications for summer scholarship grants supporting legal research and communication faculty. Access the Call for Applications and submission form online.

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 ALWD co-chair Marci Rosenthal. 

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