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Bundle: Legal Writing, Fifth Edition and Artificial Intelligence and Academic Integrity, First Edition

Authors
  • April G. Dawson 
  • Richard K.  Neumann
  • Sheila Simon
  • Suzianne D. Painter-Thorne
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Description

Print Bundle - This bundle includes both print and digital versions of ISBN 9781543858648 and a printed version of ISBN 9798889066941.

Digital Bundle - This bundle includes a digital-only version of ISBN 9798886144550 and a digital-only version of ISBN 9798889066958.

 

Written in a style that engages students, Legal Writing, Fifth Edition, includes outstanding coverage on organizing analysis according to the CREAC formula, the writing process, storytelling techniques, rule analysis, statutory interpretation, and professionalism. In addition, the book has dynamic student resources including classroom and independent exercises, self-assessment checklists, and other learning tools.

Bundle also includes Artificial Intelligence and Academic Integrity, First Edition, which is Aspen’s concise primer intended to increase student awareness of the protocols, possibilities, and ethical implications of using AI systems in their legal education studies, while also giving professors assurance that their students are informed of the same.

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About the authors
April G. Dawson

Widely regarded as an expert on the role of technology in legal edu- cation, April Dawson is Associate Dean of Technology and Innovation and Professor of Law at North Carolina Central University School of Law, where she oversees the NCCU Technology Law & Policy Center. Dean Dawson graduated cum laude from Howard University in 1994, where she was on the editorial board of the Howard Law Journal and a member of the National Moot Court Team. After law school, Dean Dawson joined the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where she argued cases before the United States Courts of Appeals for the Fifth, Seventh, and Ninth Circuits. In 1996, Dean Dawson served as a law clerk to the Honorable Emmet G. Sullivan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, after which she joined a Washington, D.C., law firm as a litigation associate and was a legal writing adjunct at the George Washington University School of Law. In 1999, Dean Dawson moved to North Carolina to start a private practice dedicated to representing employees in cases involving sexual harassment, discrimination, and related disputes. In 2006, she joined the faculty at NCCU and has taught a wide range of classes, including Artificial Intelligence and the Law, Legal Technology Equity and Leadership, Constitutional Law, Supreme Court Seminar, Torts, Administrative Law, and Voting Rights. Dean Dawson has been voted Professor of the Year multiple times. Dean Dawson has presented several American Association of Law Schools (AALS) webinars such as Teaching with Technology for Maximum Student Engagement, Tech Productivity Tips for Law Faculty, and The Paperless Law Prof. She has served on the ABA TECHSHOW pan- els Skills Building: Best Practices for Teaching Tech to Law Students, and Tech Forward: New Jobs for New Lawyers. Dean Dawson was the recipient of the 2021 AALS Technology, Law and Legal Education Section Award, and was a 2022 ABA Women of Legal Tech Honoree. Dean Dawson’s interest in technology can be traced back to her undergraduate degree in Computer Science from Bennett College and her work as a computer programmer prior to law school. Dean Dawson is a member of the ABA Center for Innovation Governing Council, cohost of the ABA Innovation Network Podcast, vice chair of the North Carolina Bar Association Future of Law Committee, and immediate past chair of the AALS Section on Technology, Law and Legal Education. She is also a member of the North Carolina Governor’s Task Force for Racial Equity in Criminal Justice, and vice chair of the Board of Directors for Democracy NC. Dean Dawson cohosts Legal Eagle Review radio show with her col- league, Irving Joyner, on WNCU 90.7 FM, in which weekly interviews shed light on law-related concerns for people in the local community, as well as at the state and national level.

Richard K. Neumann
Professor of Law
Hofstra University

At Hofstra, Alexander Bickel Distinguished Professor of Law Richard K. Neumann has taught Contracts; Transactional Lawyering; International Business Transactions; Legal Writing; Civil Procedure; Legal Interviewing, Counseling and Negotiation; Pretrial Litigation; Federal Courts; Trial Techniques; and clinical courses. Professor Neumann is the author or coauthor of four textbooks: Transactional Lawyering Skills; Essential Lawyering Skills (with Prof. Krieger); Legal Writing (with Prof. J. Lyn Entrikin of the Univ. of Arkansas and Sheila Simon, Lt. Governor of Illinois); and Legal Reasoning and Legal Writing (with Prof. Kristen Tiscione of Georgetown Univ.).

His articles have appeared in the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, the Journal of Legal Education, the Clinical Law Review, the Fordham Law Review, and the Yale Journal of Law and Humanities, among others. He is an editorial advisor to Aspen Publishing, one of the largest publishers of law school textbooks.

He has served on several committees of the American Bar Association’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar as well as a number of ABA site inspection teams. He has been chair of the American Law Schools’ Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning and Research; a member of the board of directors of the Legal Writing Institute; and a member of the board of directors and the executive committee of the Association of Legal Writing Directors. He is a frequent speaker at legal education conferences.

Sheila J. Simon

Following law school, Sheila Simon worked as a staff attorney at a legal aid clinic, the Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation from 1987 to 1992, providing legal services to indigent clients. She was an associate at the firm of O'Neill Colvin in Carbondale, Illinois, from 1992 to 1994 and then served as an assistant state's attorney in Jackson County, Illinois, from 1994 to 1998, where she prosecuted DUIs and domestic battery cases. Along with several other attorneys and with the support of school faculty, Simon helped to inaugurate Southern Illinois University's law school domestic violence clinic in 1998. She worked as a clinical assistant professor at Southern Illinois University School of Law from 2000 to 2005 and was promoted to clinical associate professor in 2005. She taught both lawyering skills and family law in addition to her clinical teaching. In 2010, Simon was elected Lieutenant Governor of Illinois. She and her husband, Perry, have two daughters, Reilly and Brennan, and she plays banjo and bassoon in the band Loose Gravel.

Suzianne D. Painter-Thorne
Mercer University School of Law

Professor Painter-Thorne teaches Client Counseling, Evidence, Legal Writing, and Property. In addition to teaching, she has coached several moot court teams throughout her thirteen years at Mercer. She is the co-author of two books, Legal Writing, co-authored with Professors Richard K. Neumann, Jr., and Sheila Simon, and the Moot Court Workbook, co-authored with Professor Karen Sneddon.

Professor Painter-Thorne is on the executive committees of the AALS section on Property Law and the AALS section on Law and Anthropology. She is co-editor of the Law & Rhetoric eJournal and past managing editor of Legal Communication & Rhetoric: JALWD. She served as the Legal Writing Institute’s Host School Director from 2014 to 2018.

After graduating from law school, Professor Painter-Thorne was a litigation associate at Orrick, Herrington, & Sutcliffe in Sacramento, California. She then served as a law clerk to the Honorable Harry Pregerson on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit before joining the Mercer faculty in 2006. Professor Painter-Thorne is a member of the American Constitution Society, Association of Legal Writing Directors, the Legal Writing Institute, and the Society for American Law Teachers.

Professor Painter-Thorne received her J.D. (Order of the Coif) from the University of California, Davis, School of Law and her undergraduate degree with high honors in anthropology from the University of Maryland, College Park. She is a member of the California State Bar.

Product Information
Edition
Fifth Edition
Publication date
2023-10-23
Copyright Year
2023
Pages
112
Print Bundle
9798892071055
Digital Bundle
9798892071581
Subject
Legal Writing
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