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9 Second Draft 1 (1994-1995)

handle is hein.journals/secnd9 and id is 1 raw text is: Legal Writing Institute Conference, July 1994 The 1994 Conference of the Institute was held at the technologically state-of- the-art Chicago-Kent College of Law. The Conference had 332 registered participants from 117 American law schools and six Canadian law schools, and from South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. The program included a total of 63 panels or presentations, and four plenary sessions, with a grand total of 91 speakers (some of whom appeared on more than one panel). In addition, small discussion groups were held three times during the three-and-a-half day conference to provide an informal forum to discuss numerous issues, including plagiarism, status of legal writing faculty, curricu- lum, and teaching methodologies. The Conference program included presentations of general interest as well as presentations geared to specific groups, including new teachers, direc- tors, and those who wanted to learn about new technology. At the first plenary session, Dean Richard Matasar of Chicago-Kent College of Law welcomed participants to the Conference and Ralph Brill gave an overview of the Conference program. The second plenary session was a speech on plagiarism by Marilyn Yarbrough of University of North Carolina. The third and fourth plenary sessions were a panel on the MacCrate Report and a speech by Terri LeClercq of University of Texas entitled We Have Diamonds on the Soles of our Shoes. For those who could not attend the conference, and for those who could not attend all the presentations they wanted to, we reproduce in this issue summaries by some of the presenters of their presentations or panels. The summaries that follow are just a sampling of the wealth of ideas exchanged at the Conference; the summaries reflect the wide range of topics presented, and the varying styles of the presenters. From the editors.... Beginning with this issue, The Second Draft is edited by Joan Blum, Jane Gionfriddo, and Francine Sherman, all of Boston College Law School. We welcome your input in the form of news items, feature articles, and letters to the editors. We'll take your materials in print (preferably not faxed) or on disk to the attention of any of us at Boston College Law School, 885 Centre Street, Newton, MA 02159-1163. This issue of The Second Draft focuses on the 1994 Conference of the Legal Writing Institute at Chicago-Kent College of Law. The Spring 1995 issue will address a topic that is of great interest to many people who teach legal writing: what kind ofjob security we have and how we are evaluated and by whom. We would like to reproduce in the spring issue examples of evaluation standards for legal writing faculty. If you would like us to include the standards for evalu- ation in your law school, or if you would like to submit an article on this topic, please send your materials to us by February 15, 1995. We also plan to include an article by a writing specialist as a regular feature beginning with the Spring 1995 issue. We are currently planning to center the Fall 1995 issue on what promises to be a lively discussion on teaching legal analysis in legal writing programs. We would like to publish brief (not more than 750 word) comments on how you teach analysis; we're especially interested in whether you think that IRAC is helpful or harmful in teaching analysis. We're looking forward to an open exchange of views on topics that are important to all of us.

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