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handle is hein.journals/secnd1 and id is 1 raw text is: NEWSLETTER Legal Writing Institute Voi~. 1. No. 1 I ANIIBArII.J 100E .. .. I ... I I I J0 0 LEGAL WRITING INSTITUTE ESTABLISHED By Laurel Oates and Chris Rideout On August 15 and 16, 1984, the University of Puget Sound School of Law hosted a conference, Teaching Legal Writing, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities. One hundred and eight representatives from fifty-six law schools in Canada and the United States attended the conference, which featured presentations by nationally recognized speakers and small-group workshops. At the close of the conference, conference participants approached us ant asked that we explore methods for main- taining the relationships begun at the conference and for continuing the exchange of information and ideas about legal writing programs and the teaching of legal writing. In response to this request, in September 1984 we sent a questionnaire to those who had attended the conference. In the questionnaire, we asked the partici- pants whether they would support the establishment of Legal Writing Institute and, if they favored the establishment of an Institute, what types of activities they would like the Institute to sponsor. Thirty-eight people completed and re- turned the questionnaire. All thirty- eight stated that they wanted to establish an Institute. The participants responded as follows to the question about what activities they would like the Institute to sponsor: Sponsor Do Not Sponsor Newsletter Annual Journal Conference Research Twenty-six of the respondents stated that a conference should be held every year; nine respondents stated that a conference should be held every other year. Institute Established In response to the results of the questionnaire, the University of Puget Sound School of Law has agreed to establish the Legal Writing Institute. W( decided that during its first year the Institute can publish two newsletters and the first issue of the journal, with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. (After the first year, that source of financial support will no longer be available.) Because the AALS section on Legal Reasoning and Legal Research and Writing is sponsoring a conference on Legal Research and Writing to be held on March 22nd and 23rd in Chicago, the Institute will not sponsor a conference this year. Newsletter. We propose publishing

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