Implementing Best Practices and Educating Lawyers
Workshop Sessions at a Glance

The Institute's summer 2009 conference, "Implementing Best Practices and Educating Lawyers: Teaching Skills and Professionalism Across the Curriculum," features 40 workshops that explore techniques for teaching skills and professionalism across the law school curriculum.

Workshops At A Glance is also available as a PDF (116 KB; requires Adobe Acrobat Reader).

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

8:00 a.m. – Registration & Continental Breakfast

8:30 a.m. – Opening

9:00-10:15 a.m. – Workshops Session 1

  1. Best Practices and Positive Psychology
  2. Enriching Your Course with a Case File
  3. Learning is Social
  4. Alternative Teaching Methods
  5. Thinking Critically about Teaching Goals Through Designing Effective Assessment Rubrics

10:15 a.m. – Break

10:45 a.m.-12:00 p.m. – Workshops Session 2

  1. "Leaps of Faith"
  2. Introducing 1Ls to "Thinking Like a Lawyer"
  3. Why Tax Rules
  4. The Village Approach to Raising Professional Lawyers
  5. Integrating Writing into Casebook Courses without Significantly Increasing Grading

12:00 p.m. – Lunch

1:15-2:30 p.m. – Workshops Session 3

  1. Techniques to Improve the Analytical Skills of Students in Large Required Classes
  2. Experiential Exercises with Flowcharts Facilitate Learning Law
  3. Feedback on Feedback
  4. Festival of Damages Arguments
  5. Interdisciplinary Instruction in the Millennial Age

2:30 p.m. – Break

3:00-4:15 p.m. – Workshops Session 4

  1. The Subversive Art of Teaching Interviewing and Counseling
  2. A World of Yes
  3. Beyond the ADA
  4. The Application of Student Development Theory in Legal Education
  5. Life After Langdell

4:15 p.m. – Adjourn

6:00 p.m. – Dinner

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

8:00 a.m. – Continental Breakfast

8:30 a.m. – Re-opening

9:00-10:15 a.m. – Workshops Session 5

  1. Sneaking Skills and Professionalism into Every Course, Every Discussion, Every Day
  2. Creating a General Practice Skills Course
  3. Phenomenological Practitioner Research
  4. Bridging The Gap
  5. Exploring the Attorney-Client Dynamic in a 20-minute Counseling Exercise and Reflection

10:15 a.m. – Break

10:45 a.m.-12:00 p.m. – Workshops Session 6

  1. Autonomy Support and Law School
  2. Everything We Need to Know About Teaching We Learned in Pre-school
  3. Using Wikis to Engage Your Students and Teach More Effectively
  4. Making Simulations Real
  5. Helping Students Self-Assess Critical Skills in Light of Professional Expectations

12:00 p.m. – Lunch

1:15-2:30 p.m. – Workshops Session 7

  1. Understanding Learning Disabilities
  2. It's All About Becoming a Lawyer
  3. Teaching Students How to Frame a Jury Case for Maximum Persuasion
  4. Cultivating the Formation of Professional Identity
  5. You've Got to Move It, Move It

2:30 p.m. – Break

3:00-4:15 p.m. – Workshops Session 8

  1. Interpersonal Dynamics
  2. Ground Control to Major Tom
  3. Best Intentions, Worst Results
  4. Teaching Students How to 'Think Like a Lawyer'
  5. Ending Our Sermonizing

4:15 p.m. – Closing

4:30 p.m. – Adjourn