Professional Writing, Ethical Foundations
A Curriculum Built for the Realities of Legal Practice
Our Lawyering Process Program consistently ranks among the top in the country according to US News & World Report. Led by a fulltime faculty of renowned scholars, award-winning teachers, and innovative researchers, our students have access to leaders in the evolving discipline of legal writing and skills. Notably, our curriculum values legal writing as a discipline and places our program and our legal writing faculty equally among other subjects.
In addition, Boyd Law faculty members are national leaders who have served as Officers and Board members of the Legal Writing Institute, the Association of Legal Writing Directors, and the AALS Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research. Further, our faculty have served as editors of the Journal of Legal Writing Institute, Legal Communication and Rhetoric. Boyd Law at UNLV also serves as one of three founding schools of the Rocky Mountain Legal Writing Conference, and often hosts writing workshops and conferences.
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Charles ('12)
"The job of a partner is to work with associates and help them grow into future partners. Professor Pollman gave me great feedback that I still use when training our litigators: "Finish early and revise frequently." To this day, she’s not wrong—writing takes time, and you get much better results when you don’t rush the process."
Amanda ('11)
"Most often, your written work product is the first thing introducing a judge to your case. This is your opportunity to inform the court of your client's position and, as any first impression, it will set the course for the future of your case. With effective, concise, and persuasive legal writing, you can prevail before even uttering a word. Because of this, legal writing is the cornerstone of my legal career."