Legal Writing Institute

The Legal Writing Institute is a non-profit corporation founded in 1984 by the University of Puget Sound School of Law, now Seattle University School of Law. The purpose of the Institute is to promote the exchange of information and ideas about legal writing and to provide a forum for research and scholarship about legal writing and legal analysis. The Institute promotes these activities through national conferences, a newsletter, and a research journal.

The Institute sponsors its national conference on legal writing every other summer. Twelve conferences have been held so far, in 1984, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2006.

The Institute also publishes a newsletter distributed twice a year, and a scholarly journal, published once a year.

The Institute has over 1,700 members. This membership represents all of the ABA-accredited law schools in the United States. The Institute also has members from English departments; from Canada and Australia; from independent research and consulting organizations; and from the practicing bar. Anyone who is interested in legal writing or the teaching of legal writing may join the Institute.

If you are interested in membership with the Legal Writing Institute, please contact Yonna Shaw at Shaw_YW@law.mercer.edu or (478) 301-2622. Be sure to include your name, title, organization, address, city, state, zip, country, e-mail address, and telephone number in the e-mail. 

For more information about the Legal Writing Institute, contact Yonna Shaw at Shaw_YW@law.mercer.edu or visit the LWI web site: http://www.lwionline.org/.