UMKC School of Law

Legal Writing Program 

Introduction to Law & Lawyering Processes I Fall 2009
 



Exercise Four

Exercise Three

Revised Late Penalties

ICW Video Tutorial

TWEN (submit writing exercises)



Syllabi  | Program Information | Course Materials | TA Memos | Top Papers | Slides | Resources



Legal Writing Program Faculty


Small pointer arrow Wanda M.Temm, Clinical Professor of Law, Director of Legal Writing
Small pointer arrow Judith Popper, Associate Clinical Professor of Law
Small pointer arrow Daniel Weddle, Clinical Professor of Law
Small pointer arrow Barbara Wilson, Associate Clinical Professor of Law



 

Course Syllabi  Fall 2009

Section

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

Syllabus Section I Syllabus revised 9/10/09 Section II Syllabus revised 9/10/09 Section III Syllabus revised 9/10/09 Section IV Syllabus revised 9/10/09 Section V Syllabus revised 9/10/09 Section V Syllabus revised 9/10/09

 


 

 


 

Course Materials

Exercise One
Exercise Two
 

 


 

TA Memos

   
   

 


 

Top Papers
Exercise 2    
Section I    
Section II    
Section III    
Section IV    
Section V    
Section VI    


Class PowerPoint Slides

Small pointer arrow Sources of Law & Court Structure, Anatomy of a Lawsuit   .ppt.   .pdf
Small pointer arrow Selecting Authority: Principles of Precedent & Stare Decisis   .ppt   .pdf
Small pointer arrow Learning Legal Citation with The Bluebook & Interactive Citation Workstation   .ppt   .pdf
Small pointer arrow Organizing Proof & The Process of Legal Writing   .ppt   .pdf
Small pointer arrow How to Draft an Effective Analogy   .ppt   .pdf
Small pointer arrow Elements of an Office Memorandum   .ppt   .pdf
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Resources

Small pointer arrowComputer and Internet Based Research
           
www1.law.umkc.edu/faculty/callister/guides/Wexis1.ppt

            www1.law.umkc.edu/Faculty/callister/Guides/Wexis2.ppt

Small pointer arrowEssays and Writing Contests

Small pointer arrowResearch Links

Small pointer arrowGet Real About Research and Writing

 


 

Essays and Writing Contests for Law Students

UMKC School of Law Federal Estate Planning Symposium Prize

University of Richmond School of Law 

Google search for "legal writing contest"

 


 

Research Links

Small pointer arrow  E-Mail & Phone Directories
Small pointer arrow  Government Info & Forms
Small pointer arrow  Grammar Sites
Small pointer arrow  Law Directories
Small pointer arrow  Legal Research Sites
Small pointer arrow  Legal Writing Sites
Small pointer arrow  Newspapers
Small pointer arrow  Other Information
Small pointer arrow  Persuasion



E-Mail & Phone Directories

AT&T AnyWho - www.tollfree.att.net
BigBook Yellow Pages - www.bigbook.com
Four11 Directory Services - www.four11.com
InfoSpace - www.infospace.com
SuperpagesYellow and White Pages - www.superpages.com
Switchboard Home Page - www.switchboard.com/
Temple University Directory - directory.temple.edu/search
WhoWhere - www.whowhere.com



Government Info & Forms

Bureau of Labor Statistics - www.bls.gov
Commerce Dept. FedWorld - www.fedworld.gov
Internal Revenue Service - www.irs.gov
Government Forms - Links for Download Sites - www.forms.gov
Library of Congress Home Page - www.loc.gov



Grammar Sites

Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab) - http://owl.english.purdue.edu
Guide to Grammar Writing - http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar



Lawyer Directories

Lawyers Directory from Martindale - www.martindale.com



Legal Research Sites

Bibliographic Formats for Citing Electronic Information - www.ipl.org/div/farq/netciteFARQ.html
Google University Search - www.google.com/options/universities.html
Hein-On-Line - www.heinonline.org
Internet Legal Resource Group - www.ilrg.com
Legal Information Institute - www.law.cornell.edu
Legal Publishers - www.aallnet.org/committee/criv/resources/tools/list
Lexis-Nexis - www.lexisnexis.com/lawschool
US Supreme Court Argument Transcripts - www.supremecourtus.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts.html
US Supreme Court Database -- Oyez Project - www.oyez.org
US Supreme Court - www.supremecourtus.gov
West Group Products Picture Directory - http://lawschool.westlaw.com/faculty/digpic.asp
Westlaw.com - www.lawschool.westlaw.com
WWW Virtual Library- Law - http://vlib.org/Law
Touro Law Center Law Library - www.tourolaw.edu/library
New York Court Central - http://nycourts.law.com
Legal Research Guides - www.ll.georgetown.edu/research
Legal Research Tutorials - www.ll.georgetown.edu/tutorials/index.cfm
Berring on Legal Research Podcasts - www.berringonlegalresearch.com/podcast.asp
FindLaw for Legal Professionals - www.findlaw.com (choose "Legal Professionals" tab)
Legal Research Links - www.ualr.edu/cmbarger/Research.htm (Prof. Colleen Barger)
Circuit Splits Blog - www.oyez.org
Inter Alia: Internet Research Weblog - www.inter-alia.net
State Court Web Sites - www.ncsconline.org/D_KIS/info_court_web_sites.html
Federal Court Web Sites - www.uscourts.gov/courtlinks
THOMAS: Library of Congress Online - http://thomas.loc.gov
Executive Branch Online - www.whitehouse.gov/government/exec.html
United States Census Bureau - www.census.gov
Questia (great online general library; requires paid membership) - www.questia.com
Law.com Legal Dictionary - http://dictionary.law.com
Quicklaw America - www.rocketlawyer.com



Legal Writing Sites

Online Legal Writing Exercises - www.kentlaw.edu/academics/lrw/grinker
Legal Writing in Plain English - http://books.google.com/books?id=reZf9nzoiSQC (Bryan Garner)
Legal Writing in Plain English Exercises - http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/garner (Bryan Garner)
the (new) legal writer -- (a blog of resources for and about legal writing) - http://raymondpward.typepad.com/newlegalwriter
A blog and resources - http://legalwriting.net
LawProse Video Archive -- (Bryan Garner's collection of judge interviews discussing writing skills) - www.lawprose.org/interviews/judges_lawyers_writers_on_writing.php  



Newspapers

Chronicle of Higher Education - http://chronicle.com
Los Angeles Times - www.latimes.com
New York Times - www.nytimes.com
Wall Street Journal - www.wsj.com
Washington Post - www.washingtonpost.com



Other Information

ACCRA Cost of Living Index - www.coli.org
Bartleby.com Great Books Online - www.bartleby.com
Britannica.com - www.britannica.com
CataList, catalog of LISTSERV lists - www.lsoft.com/lists/listref.html
CompletePlanet Database Search - www.completeplanet.com
ConsumerREVIEW.com - www.consumerreview.com
Hoaxkill - www.hoaxkill.com
Infomine Scholarly Internet Resource Collections - http://infomine.ucr.edu
Library of Congress Online Catalogs - http://catalog.loc.gov
Mayer Brown, Rowe & Maw's appellate practice - www.appellate.net/articles
Pollen.com - www.pollen.com/Pollen.com.asp
ScamBusters - www.scambusters.com/index.html
Search Systems (Public Records) - www.searchsystems.net
The Quotations Page - www.quotationspage.com
The Smoking Gun - www.thesmokinggun.com
Thomas Register  - www.thomasnet.com
Urban Legends and Folklore - http://urbanlegends.about.com
Urban Legends Reference Pages - www.snopes2.com
FindLaw - Law Schools A-Z - www.findlaw.com/02lawschools/fulllist.html
JURIST - http://jurist.law.pitt.edu
National Conference of Bar Examiners - http://www.ncbex.org
Plagiarism.org - www.plagiarism.org
Scribes - www.scribes.org
Law Student's Guide to Good Writing - www.kentlaw.edu/academics/lrw/grinker/LWTA.htm



Persuasion

Visual Rhetoric (Painting with Print by Ruth Anne Robbins) - www.ca7.uscourts.gov/Rules/Painting_with_Print.pdf
The Three Appeals - www.public.asu.edu/~macalla/logosethospathos.html
    Logos - http://papyr.com/hypertextbooks/comp1/logos.htm
    Pathos - http://papyr.com/hypertextbooks/comp1/pathos.htm
    Ethos - http://papyr.com/hypertextbooks/comp1/ethos.htm
Letter from a Birminghm Jail with Rhetorical Analysis - http://faculty.millikin.edu/~moconner/writing/Letter_from_Birmingham_Jail.doc
American Rhetoric (a collection of speeches, movie clips, audio files) - www.americanrhetoric.com
State Appellate Court Arguments Online (some in both audio and video formats) - www.ncsconline.org/WC/CourTopics/StateLinks.asp?id=39&topic=IntCts
Oyez: Supreme Court Media (arguments and briefs online) - www.oyez.org


 

A Study in Appellate Advocacy 
An examination of brief writing through a study of the briefs in the Texas v. Johnson   flag burning case (from Duke University School of Law)

 

Other Law Schools' Web Sites for Legal Writing 
"Legal writing professors are on the Web! Visit and learn from legal writing sites around the globe. In some instances, there are links for both the law school and for individual professors."

 



Preparing for the Urban Lawyer Write-On Competition   .ppt    .pdf