ALWD Virtual Front Porch
BE YOUR OWN BEST ADVOCATE:
An Interactive Panel for Legal Writing Directors and Individuals with Administrative Responsibility
Wednesday, April 27, 2022
(Click here to watch the video recording)
This session of the ALWD Virtual Front Porch series is geared towards legal writing directors or those with administrative responsibility of a program. The panel focused on how individuals can be their best own advocates. For a director, or someone with administrative responsibility, being one’s own best advocate must be balanced with advocacy for a program. Topics to be discussed include fostering leadership, gender dynamics relating to self-advocacy, the changing and challenging demands of a COVID environment, tensions between individual career and personal goals and programmatic/institutional goals, salary and scholarship considerations, and fostering mental health in self, faculty, and students.
Featured Panelists
- Heidi Brown, Director of Legal Writing and Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
- Shakira Pleasant, Assistant Professor of Law; Director, Legal Writing Resource Center, University of Illinois Chicago Law School
- Kathy Vinson, Professor of Legal Writing and Director of Legal Writing, Research, and Written Advocacy, Suffolk University Law School