Advocacy Teaching Blog

In an adversarial legal system the quality of advocacy directly affects the outcome, and hence justice. This blog is for everyone -however they serve our legal system - who is committed to improving the teaching of advocacy skills and ethics so that parties and the community are well served by persuasive and ethical advocates.

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Thursday, June 23, 2016

Technical Troubles with Google Blogger

Dear Friends, As you may have noticed, we haven't posted many blog entries in the last few months. This is because we (along with many...

Friday, March 18, 2016

How Do You Spend the Last Five Minutes of Class?

The following guest post was written by Mark Caldwell, Program Development and Resource Director at the National Institute for Trial Advoc...

Thursday, January 14, 2016

Welcome to the Law School of the Future....

It is the first day of law school, and you are excited. You have completed your online preparatory work, and you think you are ready to be...

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

A New Way to Crack an Egg

One of the eggs in the law school basket that needs to be cracked in a different way is how to effectively teach legal writing beyond the b...

Sunday, January 10, 2016

Professionalism - First, Last, Always

So now that we have talked somewhat about the current state of legal education, how to begin to fix it? I would suggest that we should gro...

Thursday, January 7, 2016

A Moral Imperative - a Problem with Promise

We have a problem - legal education costs to much. Like most problems thought it comes with a promise, whoever is first to reimagine lega...

Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Law at the Crossroads - The Profession Embarks on a Hero’s Journey

I have blogged about learning skills and their relationship to doctrine on multiple occasions, and will continue to do so when appropriate...

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