The Teaching Bank is an online resource center. It includes writing problems and exercises, syllabi, grading rubrics, teaching ideas, and other materials. Access to the Teaching Bank is professional teachers of legal writing.
LWI has nearly 3,000 members. Members represent all ABA-accredited law schools in the United States as well as law schools in other countries. LWI members also come from undergraduate schools and universities, the practicing bar and the judiciary, and independent research-and-consulting organizations. Anyone who is interested in legal writing or the teaching of legal writing may join LWI.
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Teaching Bank MembershipBoard liaison:
Charge: To promote efforts to achieve equality of status and to support the interests of legal writing faculty and programs with regards to ABA Standards
Board liaison:
Charge: To recommend ways in which LWI can partner with ASP faculty to further LWI’s mission. New for 2022-24: particular focus on examining the intersection between writing, research, and ASP as they relate to the NextGen Bar Exam.
Board liaison:
Charge: To identify nominees and assess and recommend to the Board recipients of the Golden Pen, Courage, Mary Lawrence, and Hecht awards.
Board liaison:
Charge: To strategize and identify ways to better connect LWI with the practicing bar and bench; to explore greater collaboration with the bench and bar; and to position LWI as a resource for expertise for practitioners and judges.
Board Liaison:
Charge: To identify nominees and assess and recommend to the Board a recipient of the Blackwell Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Legal Writing.
Board liaison:
Charge: To plan and prepare for the Blackwell Award Reception held in conjunction with the AALS Annual Meeting.
Board liaison:
Charge: To foster and support diversity and inclusion in legal writing education by supporting legal writing faculty from historically excluded groups and by including a diversity of perspectives in the legal writing classroom.
Board liaison:
Charge: To develop resources to improve global legal skills education of international law students studying in the US and promote global legal skills in US legal education.
Board liaison:
Charge: To produce and disseminate periodic newsletters exploring and
communicating the emerging identity of LWI and its members.
Board liaison:
Charge: To gather and disseminate information about moot court programs and competitions, including collection and coordination of lists of programs and banks of moot court problems; to support the LWI Moot Court Advisors Handbook; and to foster more scholarship and presentations about topics relevant to moot court.
Charge: To welcome new members into the LWI community through such efforts as outreach activities at legal writing and other conferences, and to assist new members in identifying legal writing resources and finding ways to become more involved in service and leadership positions.
Board Liaison:
Charge: To plan and organize the annual One-Day Workshops held in December of each year.
Board liaison:
Charge: To identify and implement ways to foster faculty engagement with social justice concerns, including collaboration with bar associations, reshaping legal writing curricula around social justice themes, and supporting faculty pro bono work.
Special Charge for 2020-22: To work collaboratively with the Diversity and Inclusion Committee to create resources and presentation materials to share with outside organizations to address and combat systemic racism in the judicial system.
Board liaison:
Charge: To use social media to promote LWI and its mission to improve the teaching and quality of legal communication.
Additional charge: Explore strategies to use social media and other PR tools to raise LWI’s profile among members of the bench and bar and position LWI with media sources as a source of expertise on issues in our discipline.
Board liaison:
Charge: To recommend and implement collaborative projects with SALT that further LWI's mission.
Board liaison:
Charge: To mentor emerging scholars seeking scholarship grants and to assess and recommend to the ALWD and LWI Boards recipients of the joint scholarship grants.
Charge: To publish three times a year short, readable, lightly footnoted essays and articles related to teaching legal research and writing that combine theory with practical experience and personal insight.
Board liaison:
Charge: To conduct an annual survey of legal writing programs and to report the results to the membership. LWI Members:
Board liaison:
Charge: To provide outreach and resources to foster and support the teaching of legal writing and supervise the LWI Teaching Bank.
Charge: To manage the LWIC community including maintaining the membership to LWIC, monitoring LWIC usage and policies, reminding users to observe LWIC policies (when necessary), and overseeing maintenance and updating of the LWI website.
Charge: To identify nominees and assess and recommend to the Board a recipient of the Teresa Godwin Phelps Award for Scholarship in Legal Communication.
Charge: To identify and recommend policies for best practices in legal writing and in the use artificial intelligence.