1999 Survey Results
Association of Legal Writing Directors/ Legal Writing Institute
This 1999 ALWD/LWI Survey Results Report includes responses from 117 law schools in the United States. The respondents answered questions about the operation of their legal research and writing programs during the 1998-99 academic year. This report is a snapshot of these 117 programs. It is an admittedly inexact composite picture of many unique programs of great variety and complexity.
The respondents did their best to choose responses that most closely matched their current programs. The data analysts exercised their best judgement in interpreting the responses. There are several notes in this report explaining where data have been excluded for various reasons and indicating where data may not be reliable.
This survey report includes data from the 1998 survey prepared by Louis Sirico. You will see the left-hand column by each question includes the number of responses in each category from the 1998 survey, where available, and the 1999 survey. Averages and other relevant data from the 1998 survey are also included throughout this report, where available, to allow rough comparisons. Please realize, of course, that some variations measure real changes in LRW programs from last year, while others reflect changes in the respondent group.
Thanks go to all who participated in this survey. Your time and effort are valuable to all of us. Thank you.
Jo Anne Durako
Survey Committee Chair