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19 Second Draft 1 (2004)

handle is hein.journals/secnd19 and id is 1 raw text is: A U Looking at the Horizon The following is the text of Terry Seligmann' opening remarks at the LWI conference held in Seattle last July. Good morning. I'm Terry Seligmann, President of the Legal Writing Institute, and I'm here to welcome you to the 2004 Biennial Conference of the Institute. This is a special conference because it marks 20 years since the founding of the Legal Writing Institute. It is thus especially fitting that the conference is here in Seattle, where LWI began. Seattle University School of Law has nurtured us as host school for most of that time and has hosted multiple conferences. Coming here really feels like coming home. I want to thank Associate Dean Kellye Testy and the administration of Seattle University and Seattle Univer- sity School of Law for their hospitality and support both for this conference and throughout LWI's existence; Professors Laurel Oates and Anne Enquist and administrator extraordinaire Lori Lamb, who have been working since the last conference to welcome us here; Professor Mimi Samuels for managing LWI's website; our confer- ence committee-Laurel Oates, Anne Enquist, Lori Lamb and Steve Johansen; and program committee members Laurel Oates, Anne Enquist, Sarah Ricks, and Ken Chestek, who read all the proposals for presentations to create this great schedule of more than 100 speakers and workshops. The University of Dayton legal writing faculty focused on programming for experienced teachers, and we have lots of it. Sonia Green and Ruth Anne Robbins have taken the idea bank into cyberspace for the first time. Amy Gajda has lined up the Friday lunch celebration's events. Mimi Samuel and Marci Smith are making handouts and bibliographies electronically available for all the workshops you can't get to. And the person who has really shepherded this conference and coordinated all of these diverse pieces, my Conference Co-Chair Susan Kosse. She is responsible for what goes right at this conference; when things don't, the credit is likely to be mine. The theme of this conference is Horizons. This was an easy theme to agree on since its infinitely flexible meaning can cover all kinds of presen- tation proposals. From a purely geographical standpoint, here we are in Seattle, with mountains on one side and ocean on the other. As an Institute, our members' horizons reach from coast to coast, and on into international spheres. LWI's activities take place on multiple fronts, too-theJournal ofLegal Writing, our scholarly publication; The Second Draft our active online discussion list; this conference. But I have a personal take on how this conference theme applies to teaching legal writing. You may know that I teach in Fayetteville, Arkansas, a university town that nestles among the foothills of the Ozarks. The horizons there are close in, with familiar land- marks and the campus towers of our first building, Old Main, visible from most spots in town. Most of the time I go about my business there without CONTINUED ON PAGE I I LWIPresident Terry Jean Seligmann addresses participants at the biennial LWI conference in Seattle.

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