One-Day Workshops

LWI One-Day Workshops Spring 2025

Registration is now open HERE for the 2025 One-Day Workshops!

Suffolk University Law School & LWI's Global Lawyering Committee

Friday, April 25 – virtual (Boston, MA EDT)

Strategies for Promoting Respectful Dialogue Across Cultural and Ideological Differences

In an increasingly diverse and polarized world, the ability to engage in respectful dialogue across cultural and ideological differences has become an essential skill for legal professionals and educators. Indeed, law schools are mandated to teach cross-cultural competency under ABA Standard 303(c). Yet this skill can be difficult to teach and practice without taking a thoughtful, informed approach. This one-day virtual workshop will offer an innovative program with sessions that provide a range of strategies to develop cross-cultural skills. Attendees will also engage in an interactive workshop led by a Dialogue Fellow, who will share valuable knowledge and practical tools to facilitate constructive conversations on challenging topics in both classroom and professional settings. Join us for this transformative session!

Access the program HERE.

Notre Dame Law School

Saturday, April 26 – in person (Notre Dame, IN EDT)

The Changing Needs of Our Ever-changing World

Our teaching and scholarship must evolve to meet the changing needs of our ever-changing world. We must adapt our instruction, assignments, assessments, and outcomes to the era of generative artificial intelligence, and we must develop and adopt curricular reforms to prepare our students for the NextGen Bar.  Sessions will address these topics and more!

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University of Florida, Levin College of Law, with LWI’s Research and Scholarship Committee 

Friday, May 2 – virtual (Gainesville, FL EDT)

Teaching Process in the Classroom and Bringing Awareness to Your Own Research and Writing Process

Teaching process over product was all the rage in the aughts. Twenty years later, we believe we ought to use process-oriented methods to tackle the great teaching challenges of our time.  Do you scaffold assignments?  Use collaborative projects early in the term?  Emphasize the development of professional judgment in your course progression?  This one-day workshop will explore how process-oriented teaching benefits students and how it may just be the answer to solving some of our current Legal Writing challenges:  integrating AI to ensure practice readiness, preparing our students for NextGen Bar success, and meeting the complex learning needs of Gen-Z students.   Interested in exploring your own process with research and scholarship?  Thanks to our new co-host--the LWI Research & Scholarship Committee--we will have a presentation track for examining the processes legal writing faculty use to research and write scholarship.  Come join us!

Access the program HERE.

If you have any questions about registration, please get in touch with Tracy Norton (tracynorton@lsu.edu). 

The LWI One-Day Workshop Committee

  • Tenielle Fordyce-Ruff (Co-Chair), Vermont Law & Graduate School
  • Suzanna Geiser (Co-Chair), Campbell University
  • Marie Callaway Kellner, University of Idaho College of Law
  • Tracy Norton, Louisiana State University Paul M. Herbert Law Center
  • Carem Corvaia, University of St. Thomas School of Law
  • Dawn Young, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
  • Ericka Curran, University of Dayton School of Law
  • Jim Dimitri, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law
  • Chelsea Harris, Emory University School of Law
  • Joy Herr-Cardillo, University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law
  • Samantha Moppett, Suffolk University Law School
  • Em Wright (Board Liaison), Stetson University College of Law