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Legal Writing

The Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University recognizes that security of position and status are necessary to foster excellence in all faculty members. Our legal writing faculty members begin on a clinical tenure track (continuing status) and once achieved, faculty members enjoy full security of position. This offers greater protection than 405(c) status and is not a contract position.

Faculty members are also eligible for promotion from Associate Clinical Professor to Clinical Professor. Legal writing faculty participate fully in law school governance and intellectual life and vote on all law school matters except for the hiring and promotion of tenure-track faculty. They serve on law school and university committees, and they receive sabbaticals, summer research grants, and professional development funds.

Faculty Status and Security

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ASU Law’s legal writing faculty members are engaged with the advancement of legal skills education across the globe in a number of ways. Most recently, the legal writing faculty have been leaders in a $1.04 million grant program sponsored by the U.S. State Department to improve skills education in Pakistani law schools.

Legal writing faculty members have also been involved with other law school grant initiatives, including a three-year, $2.84 million grant from the U.S. State Department to improve clinical teaching in Mexican legal education programs. Additionally, members of our faculty have been engaged in the Global Legal Skills Conference, a leading conference focused on the promotion of legal skills around the world. ASU Law is excited to host the Global Legal Skills Conference in 2019.

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Global Initiatives

Above: Kim Holst receiving the 2017 Global Legal Skills in Education Award in Monterrey, Mexico. (Pictured with Mark Wojcik, The John

Marshall Law School, and Mimi Samuel, Seattle University School of Law.)

ASU Law offers 10+ writing elective courses for 2L and 3L students each year. These offerings include the following, with some courses offered in multiple sections per year.

• Advanced Legal Research

• Advanced Legal Writing: Litigation Practice

• Advanced Persuasion and Creative Advocacy

• Appellate Advocacy

• Contract Drafting and Negotiating

• Fundamentals of Legal Drafting

• Indian Legal Research

• Intensive Legal Research and Writing

• International Legal Research

• Writing for Judicial Clerks

• Writing for Law Practice

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Upper-Level

Writing Elective

Courses

In 2016, the law school moved into the newly constructed Beus Center for Law and Society (BCLS). This $129 million, 280,000-square-foot building was conceived and developed with openness to the public in mind—a unique urban environment where society and the study and practice of law converge.

In addition to the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, the BCLS is also home to the Arizona Legal Center, ASU Law Group, Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics, The

McCain Institute for International Leadership, Sandra Day O’Connor Institute, Arizona Voice for Crime Victims, and the Arizona Justice Project.

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Faculty

• Professor and Alan Matheson Fellow in Law

• LegaL Method and Writing (7th ed. 2014) (forthcoming in 8th ed., 2018, with Kimberly Holst as co-author)

• ASU Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Coach

• Member, American Law Institute (2007)

• ABA Spirit of Excellence Award (2011)

• Los Abogados Lifetime Achievement Award (2015)

• LaW SchooL exaMS: PreParing and Writing to Win (2d ed. 2013)

• Organizer of law-related youth outreach and mentoring programs for more than a decade

Charles Calleros

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Faculty

• Thomas F. Blackwell Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Legal Writing (2013)

• President, Association of Legal Writing Directors (2008-2009)

• exaMPLeS & exPLanationS: LegaL Writing (2d ed. 2014) (with Terrill Pollman & Elizabeth Pollman)

• the tao of LegaL Writing (2009)

• Why Dicta Becomes Holding and Why It Matters, 76 Brook. L. rev. 219 (2010)

• How LRW Faculty Can Best Position Themselves

Judy Stinson

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Tamara Herrera

• Secretary, Association of Legal Writing Directors (2016-present)

• Rocky Mountain Legal Writing Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Region (2015)

• arizona LegaL reSearch (3d ed. 2017)

• Getting the Arizona Courts and Arizona Legislature on the Same (Drafting) Page, 47 ariz. St. L. rev. 367 (2015)

• Outstanding ASU Law Faculty Member (2014)

• Outstanding Faculty Advisor for arizona State LaW JournaL

Faculty

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• LaW 101: What LaW SchooL’S reaLLy Like (the book and documentary) (2015)

• the zen of LaW SchooL SucceSS (2012)

• the zen of PaSSing the Bar exaM (2010)

• the arizona Bar exaM: PaSS it noW (2011)

• E=LS² (Energy = Law School Success), Student Lawyer (April 2017)

• Memory and Remembering for Law Students, the Learning curve (March 2016)

• National lecturer for Barbri and The Zen of the Passing the Bar Exam seminars

Chad Noreuil

Faculty

• aSSociate editor, LegaL coMMunication & rhetoric: JaLWd (2013-present)

• Capitol Drafting: Legislative Drafting Manuals in the Law School Classroom, 22 PerSP. 141 (2014), cited in O’Connor v. Oakhurst Dairy, 851 F.3d 69 (1st Cir. 2017)

• Conference Chair, Rocky Mountain Legal Writing Conference (2009)

• Member, Program Committee for LWI Biennial Conference (2011-2012)

• Committee on Cooperation Among Clinical, Extern, and Legal Writing Faculty, Legal Writing Institute (2007-2009)

Amy Langenfeld

Faculty

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• Tales from a Form Book: Stock Stories and Transactional Documents, 78 Mont. L. rev. 501 (2017) (with Karen J. Sneddon)

• Once Upon a Transaction: Narrative Techniques and Drafting, 68 okLa. L. rev. 263 (2016) (with Karen J. Sneddon)

• Team up for Collaborative Teaching, 23 PerSP. 169 (2015) (with Judith Stinson)

• A Day in the Life of a Lawyer: Property Module (2013) (with Karen Sneddon and Pat Longan); A Day in the Life of a Lawyer: Contracts Module (2012) (with Karen Sneddon and Pat Longan)

• Measuring Student Progress: Assessing and Providing Feedback, 14 tranSactionS: tenn. J. BuS. L. (SPeciaL rePort) 489 (2013) (with Karen J. Sneddon)

• Member and Mentor, Scholarship Grants Committee, Association of Legal Writing Directors, 2016-present

• Co-chair, Teaching Resources Committee, Legal Writing Institute, 2012-2016

Susan Chesler

Faculty

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• Global Legal Skills in Education Award, 2017

• Do Muddy Waters Shift Burdens?, 76 u. Md. L. rev. 629 (2017) (with Carrie Sperling)

• Commentary on Bradwell v. Illinois in feMiniStS JudgMentS: reWritten oPinionS of the united StateS SuPreMe court (2016)

• Legal Writing Institute Board of Directors (2104-2018), Secretary (2016-2018)

• AALS Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research Executive Committee (2012-2016), Chair (2014-2015)

• Journal of the Legal Writing Institute (2012-2018), Associate Editor-in-Chief Social Media (2017-2018), Co-Managing Editor (2014-2016)

• AALS Section on Teaching Methods Executive Committee (2016-2018)

Kim Holst

Faculty

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• Associate Editor, LegaL coMMunication & rhetoric: JaLWd (2013-present)

• The Reader’s Limited Capacity: A Working Memory Theory for the Legal Writer, 11 LegaL coMM. & rhetoric 31 (2014)

• Co-Chair, Program Committee, Rocky Mountain Legal Writing Conference, 2013, 2015, 2017

• Age Matters: The Case for a Constitutionalized Infancy Defense, 54 u. kan. L. rev. 687 (2006)

Andrew Carter

Faculty

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• Chair, LWI Survey Administration Committee (2016-2018)

• Conference Chair, 2016 Southeastern Legal Writing Conference

• Have You Ever . . . ? How State Bar Association Inquiries into Mental Health Violate the Americans with Disabilities Act, 80 Brook. L. rev. 677 (2015)

• The Care and Feeding of Law Student Research Assistants, 25 PerSP. 101 (2017) (with Rachel H. Smith)

• Teach Them to Fish: Giving Junior Attorneys Feedback on Their Writing, WaSh. LaW. 30 (2015)

• Beyond the Water Cooler: Reflections on a Junior Faculty Development Program, LaW teacher 14 (2014)

Alyssa Dragnich

Faculty

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• Chancellor’s Teaching Award for Excellence (Rutgers-Camden campus wide) (2015)

• Law School Professor of the Year (Rutgers Law) (2009)

• Lawyering Professor of the Year Award at Rutgers Law (2016 and 2017)

• Director of Lawyering Programs at Rutgers Law (2014-2017)

• Book Chapter: Ethical Considerations in 1L Collaborative Classrooms (with Victoria L. Chase and Nantiya Ruan), in the neW 1L: firSt year LaWyering With cLientS (Capulong, Milleman, Rankin & Ruan, eds., 2015)

• Attorneys at the Podium: A Plain Language Approach to Using the Rhetorical Situation in Public Speaking, 8 LegaL coMM. & rhetoric 73 (2011)

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Jason Cohen

Faculty

• Chancellor’s Teaching Award for Excellence (Rutgers-Camden campus wide) (2015)

• Law School Professor of the Year (Rutgers Law) (2009)

• Lawyering Professor of the Year Award at Rutgers Law (2016 and 2017)

• Director of Lawyering Programs at Rutgers Law (2014-2017)

• Book Chapter: Ethical Considerations in 1L Collaborative Classrooms (with Victoria L. Chase and Nantiya Ruan), in the neW 1L: firSt year LaWyering With cLientS (Capulong, Milleman, Rankin & Ruan, eds., 2015)

• Attorneys at the Podium: A Plain Language Approach to Using the Rhetorical Situation in Public Speaking, 8 LegaL coMM. & rhetoric 73 (2011)

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Mary Bowman

Faculty

• Chancellor’s Teaching Award for Excellence (Rutgers-Camden campus wide) (2015)

• Law School Professor of the Year (Rutgers Law) (2009)

• Lawyering Professor of the Year Award at Rutgers Law (2016 and 2017)

• Director of Lawyering Programs at Rutgers Law (2014-2017)

• Book Chapter: Ethical Considerations in 1L Collaborative Classrooms (with Victoria L. Chase and Nantiya Ruan), in the neW 1L: firSt year LaWyering With cLientS (Capulong, Milleman, Rankin & Ruan, eds., 2015)

• Attorneys at the Podium: A Plain Language Approach to Using the Rhetorical Situation in Public Speaking, 8 LegaL coMM. & rhetoric 73 (2011)

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Ann Ching

Faculty

• Chancellor’s Teaching Award for Excellence (Rutgers-Camden campus wide) (2015)

• Law School Professor of the Year (Rutgers Law) (2009)

• Lawyering Professor of the Year Award at Rutgers Law (2016 and 2017)

• Director of Lawyering Programs at Rutgers Law (2014-2017)

• Book Chapter: Ethical Considerations in 1L Collaborative Classrooms (with Victoria L. Chase and Nantiya Ruan), in the neW 1L: firSt year LaWyering With cLientS (Capulong, Milleman, Rankin & Ruan, eds., 2015)

• Attorneys at the Podium: A Plain Language Approach to Using the Rhetorical Situation in Public Speaking, 8 LegaL coMM. & rhetoric 73 (2011)

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Rachel Stabler

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Legal Writing Faculty

Mary Bowman

Charles Calleros

Andrew Carter

Susan Chesler

Ann Ching

Jason Cohen

Alyssa Dragnich

Tamara Herrera

Kim Holst

Amy Langenfeld

Chad Noreuil

Rachel Stabler

Judy Stinson

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