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24 Legal Writing: J. Legal Writing Inst. i (2020)

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EDITOR'S NOTE


   Volume 24 of the Journal is proof of the growing strength and
diversity of our LRW community. This volume includes more than
420 pages of legal writing scholarship, with ten essays, seven articles,
and two book reviews. We are indeed seeing a rising tide in the legal
writing community, as Suzanne Rowe notes in this volume's opening
essay. Editing this volume required remarkable work by the Editorial
Board, aided by the largest team of Assistant Editors I've seen in my
time with the Journal.
   As I write this, we are heading into an extended period of social
distancing. On the first day my institution sent students home and we
all shifted (with varying degrees of trepidation) to online educating,
my inbox was flooded with resources from my more experienced LRW
peers. We shared those resources with our faculty at my institution,
and thus the strength of some generous members of the LRW
community became part of the perceived strength of the LRW
community, and then increased our institution's ability to teach well
in pressing times.
   Our sense of community, and our increased visibility as a
community, are the beginning themes for our series of essays.
Suzanne's essay begins the series and sets the theme, with reflections
and suggestions as to how we can all build on this strength and deepen
our commitment to our community and to individuals who are not
being lifted by the rising tide. The essays that follow comment in
some way on this theme, from essays on personal, professional
growth and satisfaction; to essays on enriching a programmatic
community; to essays on the future of legal writing and the
consequences of and to our growing reputation and value.
   This volume's articles are similarly varied. We are pleased to
publish:
   * David Cleveland and Jeff Jackson's next installation on the
       history of legal writing. This article begins with the end of the
       Civil War, when many law schools closed, to the 1930s, when
       the teaching of legal writing and skills generally was robust.

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