The Association of Legal Writing Directors and the Legal Writing Institute have just made the results of the 2007 Survey available online. Over 92 % of all ABA accredited law schools responded to the survey. In addition to salaries and other terms of employment for legal writing professors, the survey results include information on staffing models for first-year legal writing programs, curricular choices, upper-level writing courses, technology use, non-lawyer writing specialists, and teaching assistants. Data from the past three years are reported next to this year's data, so trends are easily discernible. Survey results going back to 1999 are also available.
On related notes, the Legal Writing Institute has just launched a Web site for the Journal of the Legal Writing Institute. And Joe Hodnicki of Law Librarian Blog wrote recently about the Politics of Legal Writing, the title of a July conference for legal research and writing program directors, and provides a link to the edited proceedings of that conference.
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