<img width="524" height="287" alt="LegalMethodsHBlarge" src="/site/files/oldnewsfiles/LegalMethodsHBlarge.jpg" class="FloatRight">Widener’s Legal Methods professors were a strong presence at the Legal Writing Institute’s (LWI) Fifteenth Biennial Conference this summer.  LWI is a non-profit organization dedicated to the improvement of legal writing.   With over three thousand members from thirty-eight different countries, LWI is the second-largest organization of legal educators.<br><br>Professors from both the Delaware and Harrisburg campuses presented innovative ideas at the LWI 2012 conference.  On the forefront of assessment, <a href="/Academics/Faculty/ProfilesHbg/AnthonDionneE.aspx">Dionne Anthon</a> demonstrated her enhanced electronic rubric in “This Is Not Your Mother’s Rubric: An Enhanced ‘Electronic’ Rubric to Facilitate Faster Feedback, Track Students’ Overall Performance, and Discover Students’ Strengths and Weaknesses.”  <a href="/Academics/Faculty/ProfilesDe/BrownMaryann.aspx">Maryann Brown</a> and <a href="/Academics/Faculty/ProfilesDe/EakinAlice.aspx">Alice Eakin</a> provided suggestions for how to incorporate metacognitive principles into the legal writing curriculum in the poster presentation “Wake Up Little Susie: Learning How to Learn in the Legal Writing Classroom.”  <a href="/Academics/Faculty/ProfilesHbg/HemingwayAnnaP.aspx">Anna Hemingway</a> led a panel discussion on novel approaches to scholarship entitled “Not Your Average Cup of Joe: Exploring Scholarship Ideas Beyond the Traditional Law Review.”  <br><br>Several Widener Law professors also presented on how educators could improve their teaching. <a href="/Academics/Faculty/ProfilesDe/FerrellIvaJohnson.aspx"> Iva Ferrell</a> and <a href="/Academics/Faculty/ProfilesDe/KingSusanA.aspx">Susan King</a> explored how to discover new teaching ideas in a poster presentation entitled “Lessons Learned Along the Way: Teaching Strategies From Unexpected Places.”  <a href="/Academics/Faculty/ProfilesHbg/LearJenniferM.aspx">Jennifer Lear</a> encouraged professors to use writing terms familiar to students in her presentation “’Can You Hear Me Now?’ – Speaking a Familiar Language to Improve Student Learning.”  <a href="/Academics/Faculty/ProfilesHbg/SmithAmanda.aspx">Amanda Smith</a> suggested a change to the standard legal writing curriculum in “Preparing for Practice from Behind the Bench: Replacing the Traditional Office Memorandum with a Judicial Opinion.”<br><br>The LWI conference was held in Palm Desert, California, from May 29 to June 1, 2012.  Approximately six hundred individuals from law schools all across the country attended.