Legal Writing Class Forum

[Action Jackson]

P/F is the only credited response.

[catharsis]

On a separate note, are there people on here who do have a graded legal writing class at their school? Especially curious about this in terms of T25 or so, but also would be interested more generally (I thought for instance that Texas grades the legal writing course)...

I took it graded. Third tier. Although I definitely see the downsides to graded legal writing, I think the graded course encourages students to take the course more seriously. If it's ungraded, you really just have to put in a good faith effort (just enough not to fail). Considering that most lawyers are professional writers, I think more emphasis on legal writing in law school is generally a good idea.

I don't think UT grades. On a somewhat related note:

Last semester, a well-known lawyer wrote to law school Dean Lawrence Sager, charging that UT graduates are incompetent legal writers and that he would never hire a UT Law graduate again.

http://abovethelaw.com/2010/03/universi ... y-from-ut/

UT students take only one credit hour of legal writing each semester of 1L. http://www.utexas.edu/law/academics/cur ... rstyr.html

UT does grade and starting this fall legal writing will be a 2 hour credit. it used to be that classes were typically M-Th but with the increase in legal writing i think they will be pushing that to be on Friday.

[20160810]

DO NOT LET A BUNCH OF GUNNER 0LS WHO HAVE NEVER SPENT A DAY IN AN ACTUAL LAW SCHOOL TALK YOU INTO TAKING LRW FOR A GRADE! Seriously. Take it P/F. Final answer. Period.

Everyone is going to turn in a VERY similar looking brief/memo at the end of the semester. Yours will not be the work of a uniquely brilliant snowflake. It just won't. You stand, depending on the curve, about an 80% chance of getting a B or worse. Make the smart choice and count yourself lucky that your school does not force you to take that class for a grade as mine did.