2001 Survey Results
Association of Legal Writing Directors/ Legal Writing Institute
This 2001 ALWD/LWI Survey Results Report includes responses from over 140 law schools in the United States. The respondents answered questions about the operation of their legal research and writing programs during the 2000-2001 academic year. This report is a snapshot of these programs. It is an admittedly inexact composite picture of many unique programs of great variety and complexity. Nevertheless, the survey results show common practices, trends, and other valuable insights about the state of legal writing training in American law schools.
For the first time, this year’s survey was on the web. This allowed the data to be generated from the web-based responses. This process made the data analysis far faster and more accurate. Unfortunately, there are a few questions for which we do not have reliable data this year because of technical difficulties. This has been noted in the survey report, and data from the 2000 Survey was inserted instead, where that would be helpful. These problems will be resolved before the 2002 Survey is launched next year.
This survey report also includes data from the 2000 survey. You will see the left-hand column by each question includes the number of responses in each category from the 2000 survey, where available, and the 2001 survey. Averages and other relevant data from the 2000 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 other reflect changes in the respondent group.
Thanks go to all who participated in this survey. Thank you all for your patience as we work out the kinks in the new web-based survey. Next year, this process will be easier and more refined. We appreciate your feedback on the web-survey. Your time and effort are valuable to all of us. Thank you.
Jo Anne Durako
Survey Committee Chair