UMKC School of Law

Legal Writing Program 

Introduction to Law & Lawyering Processes I Fall 2008
 


Bar Preparation Information

Preparing for the Urban Lawyer Write-On Competition

 


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 Eric Martin, Assistant Clinical Professor of Law
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 2008

Section

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

Syllabus Section I Syllabus Section II Syllabus Section III Syllabus Section IV Syllabus Section V Syllabus Section VI Syllabus Section VI Syllabus

 


 

 


 

Course Materials

Teddy Washburn's Gun
 
 

 


 

TA Memos

Section IA  
Section IB  
Section IIA  
Section IIB  
Section IIIA  
Section IIIB  
Section IVA  
Section IVB  
Section VA  
Section VB  
Section VIA  
Section VIB  
Section VIIA  
Section VIIB  

 


 

Top Papers








Class PowerPoint Slides Fall 2008

Small pointer arrow Sources of Law & Court Structure; Anatomy of a Lawsuit   .ppt   .pdf   .rtf
Small pointer arrow Selecting Authority: Principles of Precedent & Stare Decisis   .ppt   .pdf   .rtf
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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

            Outline of 1L 2006 Computer and Internet Based Reserach Training

Small pointer arrowEssays and Writing Contests

Small pointer arrowResearch Links

Small pointer arrowPreparing for ALL Writing Competitions

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 

Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law at The University of Memphis

Google search for "legal writing contest"

 


 

Research Links

Small pointer arrowE-Mail & Phone Directories

Small pointer arrowGovernment Info & Forms

Small pointer arrowGrammar Sites

Small pointer arrowLaw Directories

Small pointer arrowLegal Research Sites

Small pointer arrowNewspapers

Small pointer arrowOther Information

 

 

E-Mail & Phone Directories

AT&T AnyWho Info 

BigBook Yellow Pages - http://www.bigbook.com

Four11 Directory Services - http://www.four11.com/

InfoSpace - http://www.infospace.com/

SuperpagesYellow and White Pages - http://www.superpages.com/

Switchboard Home Page - http://www.switchboard.com/

Temple University Directory - http://directory.temple.edu/search/

WhoWhere - http://www.whowhere.com/

 

Government Info & Forms

Bureau of Labor Statistics - http://www.bls.gov/

Commerce Dept. FedWorld - http://www.fedworld.gov/

Federal Web Locator - http://www.infoctr.edu/fwl/

Government Forms -- Links for Download Sites -

http://www.lib.memphis.edu/gpo/forms.htm

Internal Revenue Service - http://www.irs.gov/

Library of Congress Home Page - http://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

Martindale-Hubbell - http://www.martindale.com/

 

Legal Research Sites

Bibliographic Formats for Citing Electronic Information - http://www.uvm.edu/~ncrane/estyles/

Google University Search - http://www.google.com/options/universities.html

Hein-On-Line - http://www.heinonline.org/

Internet Legal Resource Guide - http://www.ilrg.com/

Law Lists - http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/~llou/lawlists/info.html

Legal Information Institute - http://www.law.cornell.edu/

Legal Publishers' List - http://www.colorado.edu/Law/lawlib/ts/legpub.htm#list

Lexis-Nexis - http://www.lexisnexis.com/lawschool/

Quicklaw America - http://www.quicklawamerica.com/

US Supreme Court Argument Transcripts - http://www.supremecourtus.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts.html

US Supreme Court Database -- Oyez Project - http://www.oyez.org

US Supreme Court - http://www.supremecourtus.gov/

West Group Products Picture Directory - http://lawschool.westlaw.com/faculty/digpic.asp

Westlaw.com - http://www.lawschool.westlaw.com/

WWW Virtual Library- Law - http://www.law.indiana.edu/law/v-lib/lawindex.html

 

Newspapers

Chronicle of Higher Education - http://chronicle.com

Los Angeles Times - http://www.latimes.com

New York Times - http://www.nytimes.com

Wall Street Journal - http://www.wsj.com

Washington Post - http://www.washingtonpost.com/

 

Other Information

ACCRA Cost of Living Index - http://www.coli.org/

Bartleby.com Great Books Online - http://www.bartleby.com/

Britannica.com - http://www.britannica.com/

CataList, catalog of LISTSERV lists - http://www.lsoft.com/lists/listref.html

CompletePlanet Database Search - http://www.completeplanet.com/

ConsumerREVIEW.com - http://www.consumerreview.com/

Deja.com - http://www.deja.com/

Hoaxkill - http://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/

PDR.net - http://www.pdr.net/physicians_desk_reference/

Pollen.com - http://www.pollen.com/Pollen.com.asp

ScamBusters - http://www.scambusters.com/index.html

Search Systems (Public Records) - http://www.searchsystems.net/

The Quotations Page - http://www.quotationspage.com/

The Smoking Gun - http://www.thesmokinggun.com/

Thomas Register - http://www.thomasregister.com/index.html

U. Michigan - Statistical Resources - http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/frames/steccpfr.html

Urban Legends and Folklore - http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/science/urbanlegends/mbody.htm

Urban Legends Archive - http://www.urbanlegends.com/

Urban Legends Reference Pages - http://www.snopes2.com/

FindLaw - Law Schools A-Z - http://www.findlaw.com/02lawschools/fulllist.html

JURIST - http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/

National Conference of Bar Examiners - http://www.ncbex.org/

Plagiarism.org - http://www.plagiarism.org/

Scribes - http://www.scribes.org/home.htm

http://www.kentlaw.edu/academics/lrw/grinker/LWTA.htm

http://www.stcl.edu/faculty-dir/mcgaugh/main.htm    

 

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   .htm    .pdf


Web based Presentation:

 

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