Legal Writing in the Academy 2000-2010: A Decade of Promise and Progress

Abstract

Legal writing routinely tops the list when practitioners and judges are surveyed about critical lawyering skills, but for decades legal writing courses, and those who taught them, have been marginalized. This article focuses on the progress made in the legal writing field in the last decade, 2000-2010. This progress provides hope that legal writing becomes as relevant within academia as it is within practice and that legal writing faculty will soon achieve full parity within the academy.