Project to help improve feedack to students on written work product

It’s been a long year and everyone is busy closing up case files for the summer.  If you have a chance before you shift gears, would you mind sharing one or two examples of student work product that show your written feedback/markup/annotations to the student?  Your legal writing colleagues are working on tools that you can use to facilitate student feedback, so any contributions you can make will benefit everyone in the clinical community.  (And of course, legal writing professors also expect to learn much from the exchange, too!) Naturally, the need to sanitize documents of client confidences is no impediment to the project.

 Here’s the official announcement from the LWI committee responsible for this project:

 The Legal Writing Institute’s  Committee on Cooperation among Clinical and Legal Writing Faculty is interested in examining annotated model samples  and critiques of student writing by clinicians and writing faculty.  We hope to identify similarities and differences that might prove illuminating to both groups.  Eventually we hope to create a space in the LWI database for such samples.

 If you are willing to contribute samples, please contact:

 Elizabeth Fajans

Associate Professor of Legal Writing

Brooklyn Law School

elizabeth.fajans@brooklaw.edu

Comments

[Ken Gallant]

Just remember that many legal writing instructors have never been practicing lawyers, so you may need to do more than the usual explaining about how to do this without violating attorney client privilege or other privacy protections for clients.