The following announcement comes to us from Alicia Plerhoples (Georgetown).  The 14th annual transactional clinic conference will be held at UMKC School of Law in Kansas City, Missouri and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is serving as a host partner. Proposals are due by December 15, 2014 and more information about the conference is available after the break.

14TH ANNUAL TRANSACTIONAL CLINICAL CONFERENCE

CALL FOR PROPOSALS, PAPERS, & PANELISTS

Teaching and Writing Methods of the Transactional Clinician

This year’s conference theme is Teaching and Writing Methods of the Transactional Clinician. The conference will have two tracks: (1) a “Nuts & Bolts” Teacher Workshop and (2) a “Pen & Paper” Scholarship Workshop. The Planning Committee seeks proposals for (1) presentations, (2) papers, and (3) panelists as outlined below.   

1.      “Nuts & Bolts” Teacher’s Workshop – Call for Proposals

How do you teach? The Planning Committee seeks proposals from presenters to share how they teach particular lawyering skills in transactional law clinics. We seek presentations that:

(i)                 Identify a lawyering skill or tool that the clinician teaches effectively;

(ii)               Explain the clinician’s learning objectives with respect to the lawyering skill or tool,

(iii)             Explain in detail how the clinician teaches this lawyering skill or tool; and

(iv)             Share written and other materials (such as class handouts or videos) that will assist the conference audience members in adopting the discussed teaching method.

The Planning Committee seeks individual or group proposals. For individual presentations, we will put presenters together on panels based on the lawyering skill or tool presented. Proposals should describe the presentation using the tabulated outline above and be no longer than two pages. Please submit proposals to Susan Felstiner at sfelstiner@lclark.edu by December 15, 2014. Below are non-exclusive suggestions for presentation topics.

In the context of your transactional clinic, explain how you teach:

  • Bootcamp / Orientation
  • Client Interviewing
  • Transactional Research
  • Problem Solving & Legal Analysis
  • Client Counseling
  • Contract or Document Drafting
  • Professional Skills such as Collaboration & Leadership
  • Independent Learning & Reflective Lawyering
  • Project Management / Transaction Planning
  • Client-Centered Lawyering
  • Incorporating and Using Technology in Practice

2.      “Pen & Paper” Scholarship Workshop – Call for Papers

What are you writing? The Planning Committee seeks proposals from presenters to share works-in-progress. Any topic generally of interest to transactional clinicians is welcome, whether doctrinal, theoretical, empirical, normative, pedagogical, or interdisciplinary. The format of the works-in-progress panels will consist of “rocket panels” in which each presenter gives his or her “elevator pitch” of the work in progress, speaking for no more than 10 minutes. The presenters will then engage in Q&A with the audience.

Work-in-progress proposals should include a 2-page abstract of the work-in-progress and be submitted to Susan Felstiner at sfelstiner@lclark.edu by December 15, 2014.

3.      Plenary Sessions – Call for Panelists

The Conference will hold two plenary sessions.

  • The “Nuts & Bolts” Teaching Plenary invites panelists to work through a choice of entity hypothetical and present their teaching approaches to the audience. The hypothetical will involve a founder whose organization could be a nonprofit, a for-profit, or a hybrid entity. The hypothetical will be drafted by the Planning Committee and sent to the panelists at least two months prior to the conference. The panelists will then have the opportunity to work together or separately to answer the hypothetical and put together a presentation on how they would approach the problem and how they would teach the hypothetical to their students.

 

  • The “Pen & Paper” Scholarship Plenary will focus on publication of scholarship by transactional law clinicians. Panelists will discuss: (i) how to decide what type of scholarship to write; (ii) writing strategies and written materials on how to write legal scholarship; (iii) where to publish and what audiences to reach; (iv) how scholarship impacts tenure and promotion; and (v) topical areas of growth in scholarship written by transactional clinicians.

 

If you have an interest in presenting on one of these two plenaries, please submit (i) a statement of interest (no more than one page) and (ii) your resume to Susan Felstiner at sfelstiner@lclark.edu by December 15, 2014.

Conference Date & Location

Friday, April 24, 2015
University of Missouri – Kansas City School of Law (host)
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Kansas City, MO (host partner & location)

 

This year’s Transactional Clinical Conference will be held on Friday, April 24, 2015.  The Pre-Conference Dinner will be held on Thursday, April 23. We hope to see you at both!

Thank you,

14th Annual Transactional Clinical Conference Planning Committee:
Michael Bressman (Vanderbilt)
Susan Felstiner (Lewis & Clark)
Tony Luppino (UMKC)
Alicia Plerhoples (Georgetown)