Presenters’ Contact Information,

Biographies, & Session Abstracts

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Dionne E. Anthon Assistant Professor of Legal Methods Widener University School of Law 3800 Vartan Way Harrisburg, PA 17106 717- 541-3919 deanthon@widener.edu Dionne Anthon is an Assistant Professor of Legal Methods at Widener University School of Law. She is in her fifth year of teaching legal research and writing. She earned a B.S. in Economics, cum laude, from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, an M.B.A. from Georgetown University, and a J.D., cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Prior to entering law school, Professor Anthon worked in the Information Technology Consulting field as an instructor and a manager at Price Waterhouse and Deloitte Consulting. Before joining Widener-Harrisburg’s faculty in 2008, she served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Christopher C. Conner of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, participating in all aspects of civil and criminal cases before the court. Professor Anthon has a passion for teaching, assessment, and technology. She has shared her ideas at several national conferences. She is currently developing an “enhanced” rubric—an application that will allow professors to provide faster and more detailed feedback to students, track students’ overall performance, and discover students’ strengths and weaknesses.

Keepin’ it Fresh: Using Technology in the Legal Writing Classroom to Reach Today’s Students This presentation will explain how we incorporate the academic, social, and individualized aspects of our students’ technology use in the legal writing classroom. We will describe how we use popular culture, music videos, and commercials to heighten the interest of our students in the doctrinal material we cover. We will also demonstrate how to create and effectively use playlists and Facebook groups in legal writing courses.

So Happy Together: Using Both Excel and Word to Make Grading Easier and Faster If the thought of using Excel scares you a little (or a lot), you’re not alone. Join me in this session to alleviate any fears and learn how to use the functionality of Excel, combined with Word, to create professional score sheets that are easier and faster to use and update. Excel can automatically calculate total scores—no more manual calculation or use of a calculator needed. I will cover the advantages of using Excel and show you all of the basic skills you need to enter scores and comments on assignments in Excel. I will then demonstrate how to merge this Excel data into Word automatically to create professional score sheets for students. I will provide you with (1) a quick reference guide for the Excel and Word techniques I cover and (2) sample Excel and Word files that can be updated for future use.

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Jodi K. Cunningham

Jodi Cunningham earned her BS in Business Administration from Fairmont State College and her J.D. from the West Virginia College of Law. Jodi currently works for LexisNexis as a Law School Account Executive and covers Duquesne University School of Law, University of Pittsburgh School of Law and West Virginia College of Law. As a Law School Account Executive, Jodi works closely with professors, students, librarians and conducts training on all LexisNexis tools and resources. Prior to joining LexisNexis in April 2009, she practiced law for more than 12 years in the area of general civil litigation. She began her legal career at Cooper & Preston in Parsons, WV, as an associate and later became a partner. Subsequently, she moved to Moundsville, WV, where she practiced at Wilson & Lantz Law Offices. During her legal career, she represented clients in various court proceedings, performed legal research, prepared briefs, and appeared before the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

Educate Students on Law Firm Research Rates & Cost Recovery

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Julia Glencer Assistant Professor of Legal Writing Duquesne University School of Law 600 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15282 412-396-4663 glencerj@duq.edu Julia M. Glencer, a native of Pittsburgh, holds a B.A. in English from Carlow College (with a concentration in Literature & Philosophy) and a J.D. from The Dickinson School of Law. She spent six years as a judicial law clerk, serving the Honorable Joseph F. Weis, Jr. and the Honorable. D. Michael Fisher, both on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and more recently, a judge on the Superior Court of Pennsylvania. Ms. Glencer also practiced law for five years with the national law firm of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP, where she concentrated in appellate litigation and governmental affairs. Ms. Glencer has co-authored briefs filed before all three Pennsylvania appellate courts and various federal courts, including the United States Supreme Court. She teaches first year Legal Research & Writing, and upper level courses in Advanced Legal Writing: Writing in Law Practice and Law & Literature. Ms. Glencer, who enjoys reading and horseback riding, lives in the North Hills of Pittsburgh with her husband and their daughter. Talking, Not Typing: A Basic Introduction to Dragon Dictation Software

In this presentation, I will demonstrate the basic use of “Dragon Naturally Speaking” dictation software (Version 11 for Business) for use in adding comments to student work product and creating other written documents, including e-mails and larger memos. I will also discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using Dragon as I have experienced them over the last two years and suggest some additional ways to use Dragon to vary your typing routine. This presentation is basic, but therein lies its potential – if Dragon can help me (a veritable “Luddite”) make better use of technology to enhance my working environment and my output, it can probably help you too!

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Anna P. Hemingway Director of Legal Methods Associate Professor of Law Widener University School of Law 3800 Vartan Way P.O. Box 69381 Harrisburg, PA 17106 717-541-3960 aphemingway@widener.edu

Anna Hemingway is an Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Legal Methods Program at Widener's Harrisburg campus. Professor Hemingway received a B.S. from Drexel University, an M.A. (Clinical Psychology) from West Chester University, and a J.D. from Temple University School of Law where she served as an editor of the Temple Environmental Law & Technology Journal. She is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Professor Hemingway joined the faculty at Widener in 1998. She has a passion for legal writing, legal ethics, and academic support. She teaches and writes in the areas of Appellate Advocacy, Intensive Legal Analysis, Interviewing and Counseling, Leadership, Legal Ethics, Legal Methods, Law and Psychology, Mediation, and Property. She has presented at several national and international conferences. Professor Hemingway has been active in a number of professional and civic organizations, including the Pennsylvania Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Association of Legal Writing Directors and the Legal Writing Institute. She also serves as an editor for the Office of the Tribunal, Diocese of Harrisburg.

Keepin’ it Fresh: Using Technology in the Legal Writing Classroom to Reach Today’s Students This presentation will explain how we incorporate the academic, social, and individualized aspects of our students’ technology use in the legal writing classroom. We will describe how we use popular culture, music videos, and commercials to heighten the interest of our students in the doctrinal material we cover. We will also demonstrate how to create and effectively use playlists and Facebook groups in legal writing courses.

Using Technology to Promote Legal Writing Scholarship

Are you uncomfortable with the idea of promoting your own scholarship? Is it because you’re like me and you don’t like the idea of actively and outwardly singing your own praises? Or is it because you just don’t know how to effectively go about it? If you answered yes to any of these questions, please join me for my lunch-time presentation. I will be sharing ideas and tips for using technology to better promote legal writing scholarship. I will discuss (1) placing articles on SSRN, and the Berkeley Electronic Press; (2) promoting articles on the legal writing listserv mailing lists; (3) getting articles on blogs; and (4) creating abstracts for articles that will result in more hits on web searches.

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Jodi Wood Jewell Assistant Professor of Law University of LaVerne College of Law 320 East D Street, Room 233 Ontario, California 91764 909-460-2058 jjewell@laverne.edu Jodi Wood Jewell is an assistant professor of law at La Verne Law where she teaches and writes in the area of Legal Analysis and Writing. She came to La Verne Law from Whittier Law School, where she taught Legal Analysis. She has taught at Utah Valley State University, Western State University College of Law, and at California State University, Fullerton. While at Cal. State Fullerton, she was the recipient of a community engagement grant for her work in incorporating experiential learning through teaming up with non-profit organizations. She has lectured in the Southern California area on the impact of free speech on workplace dress codes. Professor Jewell received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English from Brigham Young University and her J.D. from J. Reuben Clark Law School. Using SoftChalk to Create Online Lessons SoftChalk allows professors to create professional interactive online lessons for students to engage in using the e-learning environment which many students prefer. SoftChalk preserves valuable in-class time as lessons can be tailored to individual needs. Professors can insert tutorials and learning activities at points in the semester where students may benefit from extra help. Tools such as SoftChalk also allow professors to quickly and easily track student scores—and thus chart student understanding of the material. SoftChalk can be used for many purposes, but this presentation will discuss using the program to supplement reading materials, to test Bluebook skills and to debrief memo and motion brief assignments.

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Erin R. Karsman Assistant Professor of Legal Writing Director, Appellate Advocacy Program Duquesne University School of Law 600 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15282 412-396-2117 karsmane@duq.edu Professor Erin R. Karsman joined the Duquesne Law School faculty in 2008. Professor Karsman is a magna cum laude graduate of the George Mason University School of Law, where she won the school's upper-level moot court competition, a national moot court competition, and the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association Student Advocacy Award for Excellence in Trial Advocacy. During law school, Professor Karsman was a teaching fellow in George Mason's legal writing program; after graduation, she taught appellate writing as an adjunct. Before going into teaching, Professor Karsman was an associate at Smith Pachter McWhorter in Vienna, Virginia, where she focused on government contract issues and engaged in litigation, including prosecution of contract appeals and bid protests, before the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals, the Government Accountability Office, the United States Court of Federal Claims, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Prior to law school, she was an analyst for Accenture in Reston, Virginia. She received her B.A. from Washington & Lee University. Professor Karsman lives in Franklin Park with her husband, Chase, and their three daughters, Lily, Chloe, and Claire. Opening Introduction to Conference

This introduction will briefly demonstrate some of the ways in which technology can enhance the teaching of legal research and writing, using video, music, PowerPoint, and more.

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Konnie G. Kustron Professor, Technology Studies 122 Sill Hall Eastern Michigan University Ypsilanti, MI 48197 734-487-1161 kkustron@emich.edu Konnie Kustron has been a professor in the School of Technology Studies at Eastern Michigan University (EMU) for the past 15 years. Of significance is the fact that Professor Kustron developed one of the first Internet based microcomputer applications courses at an accredited university. To date, she has designed and taught over nine different on-line classes at EMU. Currently she teaches a variety of technology classes including Microcomputers for Business Applications, Records Management Using Database (Advanced Access), and Law Office Administration and Technology. She also teaches legal courses such as Women and Law, Internet Law, Patent and Engineering Law, and advanced legal research and writing. In addition, Professor Kustron has two years administrative experience where she was the Associate Dean for EMU’s College of Technology. Konnie received her B.S. with honors in pre-law from Michigan State University, and her JD from the Michigan State College of Law. She is a member of the Michigan Bar and active in their Law Practice Management Section. Konnie is the recipient of an Eastern Michigan University Alumni Teaching Award as well as the Dean’s Outstanding Faculty Award. She is also a chapter author in the /Internet Guide for Michigan Lawyers/, which was a winner of the Award of Excellence in the Best Publication category given by the Association for Continuing Legal Education. Her areas of specialization include technology and the law, while her research interests involved academic integrity and online ethics. Improving Student Feedback Efficiency in Writing Assignments Using TypeItIn and ShortKeys

This will be a demonstration of two different Windows products that can be used to streamline grading by allowing instructors to create and insert commonly used grading comments in student papers: TypeItIn and ShortKeys. Both products are reasonably priced, easy to install, and can be learned quickly. TypeItIn is a convenient program to use for inserting repetitive grading comments on student papers. When an instructor uses TypeItIn, s/he creates a series of buttons with commonly used writing remarks. Those buttons are displayed in what looks like a table. When the user activates the product, the comment buttons appear on the screen. Then to place a comment, the instructor would simply chose the button representing the intended feedback, and it is immediately inserted into the student’s paper. ShortKeys also allows an instructor to include “standardized” grading comments inside student assignments by assigning keystrokes that represent the comment.

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Jan M. Levine Associate Professor & Director, LRW Program Duquesne University School of Law Legal Research & Writing Murray Pavillion 223 600 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15282 412-396-1048 levinej@duq.edu Professor Jan M. Levine is in his twenty-ninth year of teaching legal writing and has more than two decades of experience leading legal writing and research programs. In 2007, Professor Levine joined the faculty at Duquesne, and the legal research and writing program has been ranked by U.S. News & World Report as one of the nation's best every year since then, ranking sixth in the country for 2013. Before coming to Duquesne, Professor Levine directed the legal writing program at the Temple University School of Law for eleven years, where the program was also recognized by U.S. News & World Report. Before that, Professor Levine directed the writing programs at the University of Arkansas School of Law and the University of Virginia School of Law, and taught as an adjunct writing professor at his alma mater, the Boston University School of Law. A graduate of the State University of New York at Albany, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Prof. Levine is a nationally recognized scholar who has published many articles on legal research and writing; one of his most recent works was his contribution to several chapters of the second edition of the ABA Sourcebook on Legal Writing. He is also a frequent presenter at national conferences on legal research and writing. Professor Levine was the founding president of the Association of Legal Writing Directors (ALWD); served as elected member of the ALWD's board of directors; was a member of the board of directors of the Legal Writing Institute and the board of directors of SCRIBES, the American Society of Writers on Legal Subjects; and served as chair and member of the ABA Communications Skills Committee. Getting Your Points Across: Effective, Efficient, and Entertaining Critiques of Student Papers Although focused on use of a Mac, this session is relevant for Windows users as well. We will address customizing MS Word to let you do more efficient and effective critiques of student work by using custom macros, autocorrect, and custom menus and toolbars for the most commonly used built-in Word tools (including colored text and highlighting). We will also cover use of clipboard expanders (ClipMenu) and text expanders (TypeIt4Me), as well as an application for recording audio comments about student papers (TapeDeck). Switching to the Mac

A former “power user” of Windows who converted to use of a Mac two years ago will explain how to do this without pain and suffering (which will remain with those using Windows).

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Sheila Miller Legal Profession Program Coordinator

and Professor of Lawyering Skills University of Dayton School of Law 422 Keller Hall 300 College Park Dayton, OH 45469-2760 937-229-4732 smiller2@udayton.edu Sheila Miller is coordinator of the University of Dayton Legal Profession Program and has taught in the Legal Profession Program for over 14 years. Before coming to the law school, she worked as an associate in the litigation department of Frost & Jacobs before becoming an associate at Crabbe, Brown, Jones, Potts & Schmidt. Ms. Miller received her B.A., cum laude, from Miami University in 1983 and her J.D. from the University of Cincinnati in 1987. As a law student at the University of Cincinnati, Professor Miller wrote for the Law Review, was an articles editor of the Human Rights Quarterly and was elected to the Order of the Coif.

Designing Online Content for a Blended or Hybrid Legal Research and Writing Class In my presentation I will discuss teaching a blended or hybrid first year research and writing class. A blended class is one in which some meetings are face to face, and other components are delivered online. Research and writing professors do this all the time without necessarily labeling their classes as “blended” (e.g. assigning a CALI exercise during a conference week in lieu of class). After taking a University of Dayton semester long seminar about online class design, I taught my three hour first year research and writing class last semester as a blended class. We met twice a week and had an online component every week. As background, I will discuss the pedagogy of online learning and the ABA requirements for distance education which cover such classes. I will also cover course module design, “chunking” content into smaller pieces for delivery, using screen capture video technology to create videos for the on-line modules, designing online quizzes and assignments as assessment tools, and using an e-learning rubric to evaluate the online component of the class. Finally, I will cover lessons learned from teaching the blended class last semester and the students’ responses to a survey about the class.

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Sarah J. Morath Assistant Professor of Legal Writing and Research The University of Akron School of Law Room 268 P.O. Box 1350 Akron, OH 44309 330-972-7262 morath@uakron.edu Sarah Morath is an Assistant Professor of Legal Writing at The University of Akron School of Law. Before joining Akron Law in 2010, Professor Morath worked as a Judicial Law Clerk to The Honorable John A. Woodcock, Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine. In addition, she also clerked for The Honorable Andrew M. Mead of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court and for five Superior Court Justices of the Maine Superior Judicial Court. Professor Morath received her B.A. from Vassar College, where she was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, her Masters of Environmental Studies from Yale University and her J.D. from the University of Montana School of Law. In 2011, Professor Morath received an Association of Legal Writing Directors (ALWD) Teaching Grant and a Legal Writing Institute-Association of Legal Writing Directors (LWI-ALWD) Summer Research Grant. She has a published article in the 2008 edition of the Public Land and Resources Law Review entitled “The Endangered Species Act: A New Avenue for Climate Change Litigation?” Professor Morath is a member of the Ohio State Bar Association. Color Coding Comments to Facilitate Revisions, Using Adobe Reader

Written comments address a variety of topics with varying degrees of importance. Some comments highlight organization or analytical issues, while others focus on writing style, grammar, or punctuation. Still other comments concern citation. Some comments offer praise for things done well, while others offer constructive ways to improve. This presentation will demonstrate how professors can color-code comments using Adobe Reader. Attendees will have the opportunity to use various color-coding tools of this program. The presentation will also discuss the benefits and drawbacks of color-coded comments, as well as report on student perceptions of color-coded comments. Attendees are invited to share commenting tools they have used to differentiate between the various written comments students receive.

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Amanda Smith Professor of Legal Methods Widener University School of Law 3800 Vartan Way P.O. Box 69381 Harrisburg, PA 17106 717.541.3946 alsmith9276@mail.widener.edu Amanda L. Smith is a Legal Methods Professor at the Harrisburg campus. She earned a B.A. in English from Grove City College and a J.D., magna cum laude, from the Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law. She was a member of the National Appellate Moot Court Team and served as a Case Note Editor for the Dickinson Law Review. Following graduation from law school, Professor Smith served as a law clerk to the Honorable Sandra Schultz Newman of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Before joining Widener’s faculty, Professor Smith served as a Deputy Attorney General in the Civil Litigation division of the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General. With the Attorney General’s Office, Professor Smith litigated civil actions from the initial pleading stage, to jury trials, and through appeal. She specialized in civil rights and employment discrimination law. Presently, she is pursuing her Masters in Education from Widener University. Professor Smith developed and teaches a Legal Methods III course on judicial opinion writing. The Legal Writing Institute awarded her a 2010 scholarship grant to continue her research into the pedagogical advantages to teaching judicial opinion writing in law school. Keepin’ it Fresh: Using Technology in the Legal Writing Classroom to Reach Today’s Students This presentation will explain how we incorporate the academic, social, and individualized aspects of our students’ technology use in the legal writing classroom. We will describe how we use popular culture, music videos, and commercials to heighten the interest of our students in the doctrinal material we cover. We will also demonstrate how to create and effectively use playlists and Facebook groups in legal writing courses.

Everything Old Is New Again: Student Journaling as Blogging Blogs, like Facebook and Twitter, are avenues of expression familiar to students. When students are presented with journaling assignments repackaged as blogging, they are enthusiastic about the reflection process. By blogging about experiences and upcoming challenges, students discover more about themselves as learners and future lawyers. In addition, blogs are not difficult to administer, even for those professors with limited experience with technology. Join me for a discussion of how to easily incorporate blogging into your course. We will explore how to set up the blogging platforms, weave the blogs into classroom learning, and provide feedback. I will share my teaching materials and sample blog entries.

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Brett Sullivan Custom Editor Wolters Kluwer Law & Business 125 Pinehurst Road Portsmouth, NH 03801 603.498.4431 jjewell@laverne.edu Brett Sullivan is the Custom Editor at Wolters Kluwer Law & Business. He has been in higher education publishing for 24 years and has held many different positions ranging from Acquisitions Editor to Technology Consultant to Director of Sales. Brett is considered a pioneer in Custom Publishing and an expert in both print and digital delivery of educational materials. He has been involved in custom publishing programs for all three major college publishers and two start-up companies. He is thrilled to bring his experience and knowledge to the Law market. There are so many exciting new avenues for delivery of content to meet the ever-changing needs of students and faculty. Brett lives in Portsmouth, NH with his wife and two sons. When he is not producing textbooks he spends his time scuba diving, fishing and coaching lacrosse.

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Kathryn Webber Assistant Professor of Law Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad Law Center 3305 College Avenue Fort Lauderdale-Davie, Florida 33314-7796 800-986-6529 webberk@nsu.law.nova.edu Professor Webber teaches LSV I & II and Remedies. She joins the Shepard Broad Law Center after two semesters as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Stetson University College of Law where she taught Civil Procedure, Pre-Trial Practice and Employment Discrimination. Prior to entering academia, Professor Webber enjoyed a ten year career as a litigator in New York City. Most recently, she was a partner at boutique employment law firm representing plaintiffs in high profile discrimination lawsuits. Notable cases included Nurse v. Concepts in Staffing (S.D.N.Y. 2007), a race and gender discrimination suit resulting in a $1.2 million jury verdict, and Hart v. Dresdner (S.D.N.Y. 2006), a proposed class action gender discrimination case brought on behalf of six women in the financial industry. Professor Webber has commented on employment law issues in a wide range of publications and broadcasts, including appearances on CNBC’s “On the Money” and The Gail King Show of Oprah and Friends Radio. Professor Webber graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School where she served as an executive editor of the Journal of International Economic Law (JIEL) and a member of the Moot Court Board. During law school, she received the Samuel F. Pryor III Award for Most Distinguished Comment. Professor Webber received her undergraduate degree, cum laude, from Tufts University. I’ve Read Enough Already! Improving PowerPoints Using Principles of Cognitive Science and Graphic Design Many LRW professors use PowerPoints during their lectures in order to enhance the learning experience. We use these visual aids for different purposes, including: emphasizing important concepts, summarizing the readings, documenting the content of lectures in a written form, and posting examples of good and bad writing, among others. The standard PowerPoint is textual, listing concepts in written sentences and in logical, outline form. This method of delivering information, however, is duplicative of the way readings and lectures convey ideas. These communication formats favor students who learn best through words, neglecting those who respond to concepts and images. Moreover, the textual PowerPoint fails to incorporate the principles of cognitive science and learning theory which emphasize the importance of using novelty, visuals and varied methods to convey information. The PowerPoint software has many design options beyond the common textual structures. By changing the content of our PowerPoints from text to graphic representation, we can create a better way to teach our LRW students. This presentation will describe some of the principles and theory behind effective visual presentation and offer ideas on how to use principles of cognitive science and graphic design to improve our PowerPoints.

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Tara L. Willke Assistant Professor of Legal Writing Duquesne University School of Law Law School 136 600 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15282 412-396-4637 willket@duq.edu Tara Willke is Assistant Professor of Legal Research and Writing at Duquesne University School of Law. After serving four years on active duty in the United States Air Force as a Command Post Crew commander, Professor Willke attended Southern Illinois University. She received her undergraduate degree, summa cum laude, in 2000 with a major in history and minor in political science. She earned her J.D. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 2004, where she graduated magna cum laude and was elected for membership in the Order of the Coif. While at the University of Pittsburgh, Professor Willke served as the senior managing editor of the Law Review and was a teaching assistant for legal research and writing. After graduating from law school, Professor Willke was a Litigation Associate with the Pittsburgh law firm of Babst, Calland, Clements & Zomnir, P.C., where her practice included commercial, construction and environmental litigation, as well as other types of complex litigation matters. Professor Willke teaches Legal Research and Writing and, together with Julia Glencer and Erin Karsman, she co-created and team-teaches Writing in Law Practice at Duquesne. She directs Duquesne's summer program in Ireland and serves as faculty advisor to the Military Law Society and Juris; her committee work includes serving on the Curriculum and Technology Committees. Ms. Willke earned her B.A. in History at Southern Illinois University, in 2000 and her J.D. in Law at The University of Pittsburgh in 2004. Professor Willke lives with her husband and daughter on a farm north of Pittsburgh.

Are You Really There, and Do I Care? Distance Learning and Legal Writing

The number of classes offered online has grown significantly in the last decade, and so has the number of students enrolling in online courses. Although not yet accredited by the ABA, there are already online law schools offering J.D. degrees, and other “brick and mortar” law schools are now offering online LL.M. degrees. Are these trends going to continue, and, if so, what do they mean for those teaching in LRW programs? This presentation will discuss these trends and explore the implications for those teaching in LRW programs.

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Jodi L. Wilson The University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law Law 349 1 North Front Street Memphis, TN 38103-2189 901-678-5730 jlwlson2@memphis.edu Jodi L. Wilson is an Assistant Professor and Director of Legal Methods at the University of Memphis School of Law. She teaches Professional Responsibility, Arbitration, and Legal Methods, which is a first-year research, writing, and analysis course. Prof. Wilson earned her B.A. in Psychology, summa cum laude, from the University of Arkansas – Fayetteville in 1998. She earned her J.D. from Washington University School of Law in 2001, where she served as an associate editor for the Washington University Law Quarterly, was elected to the Order of the Coif, and graduated first in her class. Before joining the faculty at the University of Memphis, Prof. Wilson spent eight years as a litigator with a national practice focusing on class actions, business disputes, and securities industry arbitrations. While in private practice, Prof. Wilson also served as an adjunct legal research and writing professor. Prof. Wilson has recently published an article in the Case Western Reserve Law Review entitled “How the Supreme Court Thwarted the Purpose of the Federal Arbitration Act” and an essay in The Second Draft entitled “Students Can’t Avoid What They Can’t See: Helping Students Recognize Ethical Pitfalls.” She has presented at professional conferences on topics related to legal writing, adjunct programs, and professional responsibility. Encouraging Class Engagement with Poll Everywhere Larger class sizes impose limits on in-class exercise options and tempt students to disengage from the class discussion. Poll Everywhere is an online polling tool that can help mitigate these limitations and temptations by actively involving all of the students in the class discussion. This presentation will demonstrate the use of Poll Everywhere in a classroom, discuss the benefits of using Poll Everywhere, provide the basic steps for creating a Poll Everywhere in-class exercise, and provide tips for success.