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FULL-TIME FACULTY
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Kathleen Elliott Vinson |
Director of Legal Practice Skills Program and Professor of Legal Writing
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Professor Vinson is an active participant in the legal writing field on a national, regional, and local level. She is a member of the Association of Legal Writing Directors (ALWD) and the Legal Writing Institute (LWI). She is an editor of The Second Draft, the publication of the Legal Writing Institute that publishes ideas and discoveries regarding legal writing and analysis. She also served on the Board of Directors of LWI and currently serves on the Board of Directors of ALWD. In addition, she co-founded the New England Legal Writing Consortium. Her service in national academic associations includes co-chairing the ALWD Teaching Committee, co-chairing the LWI Elections Committee, as well as being a member of AALS Committees. Furthermore, she has published and presented extensively in the field of legal writing. For example, she co-authored the book, Legal Analysis: The Fundamental Skill. This book has been adopted and used at numerous law schools across the country. She has also published over a dozen articles. In addition, she has given numerous presentations on legal writing at national conferences and continuing education programs. She is currently the Director of the Legal Practice Skills Program at Suffolk University Law School and teaches first-year and advanced legal writing courses. In the spring of 2007, Professor Vinson was a visiting legal reasoning, research, and writing professor at Boston College Law School. She also works as a writing consultant for law firms and government agencies. She graduated, cum laude, from Suffolk University Law School and received her BA, magna cum laude, from Stonehill College. Before joining the faculty at Suffolk Law School, she clerked for Justice Howard Dana of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.
Degrees:
BA, Stonehill College; JD, Suffolk University
Bar Admittance:
MA; Federal District Court of MA; First Circuit Court of Appeals
Subjects:
Legal Practice Skills; Advanced Legal Writing
Professional Activities:
Member, Association of Legal Writing Directors; Member, Legal Writing Institute; Editor, The Second Draft Past Member, Legal Writing Institute Board of Directors; Co-founder and Member, New England Legal Writing Consortium; Member, Scribes; Associate Compiler, Martindale-Hubbell Federal Law Digest, 2000; Assistant Reviser, Martindale-Hubbell Massachusetts Law Digest, 1999 ed. and 2000 ed.
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LEGAL ANALYSIS: THE FUNDAMENTAL SKILL (2d. ed.,2009 ) (with David S. Romantz)
LEGAL ANALYSIS: THE FUNDAMENTAL SKILL (1998 ) (with David S. Romantz)
Chapter 7, LEGAL ANALYSIS: THE FUNDAMENTAL SKILL, reprinted in DRAFTING EFFECTIVE LITIGATION DOCUMENTS 53-78 (Boston, MA: Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education), in (1998) (with David S. Romantz)
What's on Your Playlist? The Power of Podcasts as a Pedagogical Tool, U. ILL. J.L. TECH. & POL'Y (forthcoming 2009)
Teaching in Practice: Legal Writing Faculty as Expert Writing Consultants to Law Firms, 60 MERCER L. REV. 761 (2009) (with Joan Blum)
Road to Legal Writing Paved with Attention to Reader, 36 MASS. LAW. WKLY. 83 (2007)
Why I Teach, THE LAW TEACHER: A NEWSLETTER OF THE INSTITUTE FOR LAW TEACHING (2007) (Spring Issue)
Improving Legal Writing: A Life-Long Learning Process and Continuing Professional Challenge, 21 TOURO L. REV. 517 (2005)
You are Not in Kansas Anymore - Ten Tips to Succeed in Law School, lawschool.com, (2002)
What is the Point? Teaching Ideas for Thesis Sentences, THE LEARNING CURVE (2002)
Interactive Class Editing, 14:1 THE SECOND DRAFT (1999)
Legal Research: How to Find and Understand the Law, 9 BIMONTHLY REVIEW OF LAW BOOKS 9 (1998) (book review)
The Tenth Justice, 9 BIMONTHLY REVIEW OF LAW BOOKS (1998) (book review)
Who Will Publish My Manuscript, 7:1 PERSPECTIVES: TEACHING LEGAL RESEARCH AND WRITING 31 (1998) (with David S. Romantz)
Stephen Elias’ Legal Research: How To Find and Understand the Law, 9 BIMONTHLY REVIEW OF LAW BOOKS 9 (1998) (book review)
14 Ways to Avoid Pitfalls in Your First Year of Teaching, 6:1 PERSPECTIVES: TEACHING LEGAL RESEARCH AND WRITING (1997) (best of articles from 1992-2001; 185 authors contributed 292 articles in nine years - 29 selected in anthology)
Woe is I? The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English, 8:5 BIMONTHLY REVIEW OF LAW BOOKS 19 (1997) (book review)
No Due Process Right to a Speedy Extradition, 18 SUFFOLK TRANSNAT'L L. REV. 347 (1995)
Alien Who Attains Permanent Resident Status Cannot be Deported for Preconceived Intent to Remain Indefinitely, SUFFOLK TRANSNAT'L L. REV. 787 (1995)
Watch, Listen, and Learn,
40 SUFFOLK LAW SCHOOL ALUMNI MAGAZINE ( 2008 )
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Prof. Kathleen Elliott Vinson
Suffolk University Law School
120 Tremont Street
, Suite 370-F
Boston, MA 02108-4977
t. 617.573-8210
f. 617.305.3091
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