Speaker: Warm Ups and Calm Downs: Strategies to Effectively Structure Class Meetings, Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing Institute, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington DC, to be held July 2020.
Speaker: Dead Men (and Women) Should Tell Tales: Narrative, Intent, and Construction Proceedings, Society Annual Meeting of the Law & Society Association, Denver, Colorado, to be held May 2020.
Group discussion participant, “What’sa Job Talk?,” “The Dead Hand: Keeping Students Engaged in the T&E Classroom,” “Designing Your Teaching Package” and “The Next Article,” Southeastern Association of Law Schools, 2019.
Speaker: “Effective Legal Writing,” ELTE Law, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, October 2019.
Speaker: Effective Learning Writing and Teaching & Learning Methodologies for the Law School Classroom, University of Debrecen Faculty of Law, Debrecen, Hungary, October 24, 2019.
Speaker: From Clause A to Clause Z: Narrative Transportation and the Transactional Reader, Seventh Biennial Applied Legal Storytelling Conference¸ Boulder, Colorado, July 10, 2019 (with Professor Susan M. Chesler).
Speaker: Brain Breaks for the Legal Writing Classroom, Biennial Conference of the Association of Legal Writing Directors, Suffolk University Law School, Boston, Massachusetts, May 31, 2019.
Speaker: Seminar: The Characteristics of Good Legal Writing, University of Strathclyde Law School, Glasgow, Scotland, May 23, 2019.
Speaker: Case Law Updates, 2019 Georgia Probate Court Judges’ Spring Conference, St. Simons Island, Georgia, March 21, 2019.
Speaker: Transactional Storytelling, 19th Annual Rocky Mountain Conference, Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 16, 2019 (with Professors Susan M. Chesler and Lori Johnson).
Speaker: Voice, Strength, and No Contest Clauses, Wills, Trusts & Estates Meets Race Gender and Class Symposium, Madison, Wisconsin, Oct.12, 2018.
Speaker: Effective Motion and Brief Writing, Workers’ Compensation Law Institute, Jekyll Island, Georgia, Oct. 5, 2018.
Discussion Group Participant and Moderator: Beyond Stiffs and Gifts: Course Coverage in a Modern Trusts & Estates Classroom, SEALS Discussion Group, For Lauderdale, Florida August 10, 2018.
Speaker: Where Are They Now?: Articles that Shaped the Legal Writing Discipline, Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing Institute, Marquette Law School, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 14, 2018.
Speaker: Brain Breaks for the Legal Writing Classroom, Southeast Regional Legal Writing Conference, Georgia State University College of Law, Atlanta Georgia, April 21, 2018.
Speaker: Happily Ever After: Fostering the Role of the Transactional Lawyer as Storyteller, Biennial Conference for Teaching Drafting and Transactional Skills, Emory Center for Transactional Drafting, Emory Law School, Atlanta, Georgia, June 1, 2018 (with Professor Susan Chesler).
Speaker: Fun and Fast Formative Assessment in Big Classes, AALS Teaching Methods Conference Call, September 15, 2017.
Speaker: Tales from a Form Book: Stock Stories and Transactional Documents, Sixth Biennial Applied Legal Storytelling Conference, Washington, D.C., July 12, 2017 (with Professor Susan M. Chesler).
Speaker: Breaking Bad Legal Writing Habits and Addictions, 2016 National Association of Bar Executive Communication Section Meeting, Savannah, Georgia, October 20, 2016 (with Professor David Hricik).
Speaker: Tales from a Form Book: Stock Stories and Estate Planning Forms, Wills, Trusts & Estates Meets Gender, Race & Class Part II, Oklahoma City University School of Law, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, September 10, 2016.
Discussion Group Participant and Moderator: Teaching Trusts and Estates in the Age of Assessment, SEALS Discussion Group, Amelia Island, Florida, August 6, 2016.
Moderator: Trusts and Estates: Latest Scholarship, SEALS Panel, Amelia Island, Florida, August 6, 2016.
Speaker: Teaching Workshop: Challenges and Strategies for Changing Times, Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing Institute, Portland, Oregon, July 12, 2016 (with Professors Susan M. Chesler, Heather Baxter, and Kelley Mauerman).
Speaker: Not Your Mother’s Will: Gender, Language, and Wills, Sex and Death: Gender and Sexuality Matters in Trusts & Estates, Joint Program of Trusts & Estates Section and Women in Legal Education Section, 2016 AALS Annual Meeting, New York, New York, Jan. 8, 2016.
Speaker: From Form Book to Story Book: Tales of Transactional Drafting, Applied Legal Storytelling Conference, Seattle University School of Law, Seattle, Washington, July 22, 2015 (with Professor Lori Johnson).
Panelist: Becoming a Productive and Fulfilled Scholar, Southeastern Association of Law Schools, Amelia Island, Florida, August 4, 2014.
Speaker: Once Upon a Transaction: Narrative and Transactional Drafting, Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 2, 2014.
Speaker: Who I Will Become: Legal Writing’s Role in the Formation of Professional Identity, Rocky Mountain Legal Writing Conference, Boyd School of Law-University of Las Vegas, Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 29, 2014.
Speaker: “You Get What You Get and You Don’t Get Upset”: Priming and Wills, The Next Generation of Trusts and Estates Scholarship, Trusts and Estates Section, 2014 AALS Annual Meeting, New York, New York, January 3, 2014.
Participant: Not Your Mother’s Will: Gender, Language, and Wills, West Coast Rhetoric Scholarship Workshop, William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, November 15, 2013.
Speaker: Gender, Language, and Wills, Symposium: Wills, Trusts and Estates Meets Gender, Race and Class, Oklahoma City University School of Law, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, September 28, 2013.
Speaker: Concurrent Pedagogy Session, AALS Workshop for Beginning Legal Writing Teachers, Washington, DC, June 20, 2013.
Speaker: It’s a Matter of Character: Using Dahl’s “Lamb to the Slaughter” in the Legal Writing Classroom, Southeast Regional Legal Writing Conference, Savannah Law School, Savannah, Georgia, April 27, 2013.
Speaker: It’s About Time: Assessing Transactional Skills in Thirty Minutes or Less, Third Biennial Conference on Teaching Transactional Law and Skills, Emory Law School, Atlanta, Georgia, November 3, 2012 (with Professor Susan M. Chesler).
Speaker: Do Now’s: 25 Invigorating Classroom Warm Up Exercises, Fifteenth Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing Institute, Desert Springs, California, June 1, 2012.
Speaker: Stunning Sentences, Spectacular Paragraphs, Continuing Legal Education Seminar, Assorted Updates for Georgia Lawyers, Columbus, Georgia, March 23, 2012.
Speaker: In-Class Legal Drafting Exercises, One-Day Legal Writing Institute Workshop, Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School, Atlanta, Georgia, December 2, 2011.
Speaker: The Will as Personal Narrative, Centerville Chapter of the National Associate of Insurance and Financial Advisors, Centerville, Georgia, November 10, 2011.
Speaker: Storytelling in Last Wills and Testaments, Third Applied Storytelling Conference, University of Denver, Sturm College of Law, Denver, Colorado, July 9, 2011.
Speaker: Bottom Drawer: Exploration of Scholarship Topics, Biennial Meeting of the Association of Legal Writing Directors, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, June 25, 2011 (with Professor Kirsten Davis and Professor Cassandra Hill).
Speaker: A Day-in-the-Life of a Transactional Lawyer: Negotiation, Ethics, and Professionalism, Institute of Law Teaching and Learning, New York Law School, New York, New York, June 3, 2011 (with Professor Susan M. Chesler and Professor Patrick E. Longan).
Speaker: Are You Looking At Me?: Strategies for Effective Communication, Magistrates of Gwinnet County, Atlanta, Georgia, April 20, 2011.
Speaker: A Rose Is a Rose: An Examination of Genre, Southeast Regional Legal Writing Conference, Mercer Law School, Macon, Georgia, April 16, 2011.
Speaker: Language in Last Wills and Testaments, Elon University School of Law, Greensboro, North Carolina, March 14, 2011 (Faculty Exchange Program).
Speaker: Beyond Chalk-and-Talk: The Law Classroom of the Future, Society of American Law Teachers Bi-Annual Teaching Conference “Teaching in the Transformative Age: The Law School of the Future,” Honolulu, Hawaii, December 11, 2010 (with Professor Oren R. Griffin and Professor Timothy W. Floyd).
Speaker: In the Name of God, Amen: Language in Last Wills and Testaments, Third Annual Colloquium “How Legal Rhetoric Shapes the World,” Washington College of Law, American University, Washington, D.C., October 15, 2010.
Speaker: Beyond the Boilerplate: Contract and Will Drafting, Fourteenth Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing Institute, Marco Island, Florida, June 30, 2010 (with Professor Susan M. Chesler and Professor Susan Payne).
Speaker: Not Your Mother’s Rhetoric: Teaching Rhetorically Across the Curriculum, 2010 Summer Conference of the Institute of Law Teaching and Learning, Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, Kansas, June 18, 2010 (with Professor Linda Berger and Professor Suzianne Painter-Thorne).
Speaker: New Ways to Teach Drafting and Drafting Ethics, Biennial Teaching Drafting and Transactional Skills, Emory Center for Transactional Drafting, Emory Law School, Atlanta, Georgia, June 5, 2010 (with Professor Susan Chesler).
Speaker: Game On!: Active Learning with Classic Childhood Games, Tenth Annual Rocky Mountain Legal Writing Conference, University of Arizona Rogers College of Law, Tucson, Arizona, March 19, 2010 (with Professor Suzianne Painter-Thorne).
Speaker: In the Name of God, Amen: Evolution of Language in Last Wills and Testaments, Stetson University College of Law, Gulfport, Florida, January 28, 2010 (Faculty Exchange Program).
Speaker: Group Writing, 2009 Southeast Regional Legal Writing Conference, Stetson University College of Law, Gulfport, Florida, September 12, 2009.
Speaker: Speaking for the Dead: Voice in Last Wills and Testaments, New Scholars’ Panel, Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Palm Beach, Florida, August 7, 2009.
Speaker: Rhetorical Stepping Stones, Biennial Conference of the Association of Legal Writing Directors, University of Kansas City-Missouri School of Law, Kansas City, Missouri, July 18, 2009 (with Professor Linda Berger and Professor Suzianne Painter-Thorne).
Speaker: Integrating Writing into Casebook Courses without Significantly Increasing Grading, 2009 Summer Conference of the Institute of Law Teaching and Learning, Gonzaga University School of Law, Spokane, Washington, June 23, 2009.
Speaker: Easy Extras: Strategies for Maximizing Unexpected, Unplanned Minutes of Class Time, Ninth Annual Rocky Mountain Legal Writing Conference, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law – Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, March 14, 2009.
Speaker: Beyond Chalk and Talk: Active Learning Activities for the Classroom, Thirteenth Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing Institute, Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, July 15, 2008.
Speaker: Teaching Multiple Skills in Drafting and Simulation Courses, Inaugural Teaching Drafting and Transactional Skills: The Basics and Beyond, Emory Law Center for Transactional Law and Practice, Atlanta, Georgia, May 31, 2008.
Speaker: Four Active Learning Strategies to Address the Statement of Facts, Georgia Legal Writing Consortium, Walter F. George School of Law, Mercer University, Macon, Georgia, December 5, 2007.
Speaker: M & Ms, Highlighting, and Freewriting, Oh My!: Active Learning Techniques to Teach the Statement of Facts, Southeast Legal Writing Conference, Nova Southeastern Law School, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, September 8, 2007.
Speaker: Just the Facts, Ma’m: Using the Presentation of Facts to Enhance Students’ Analysis, Biennial Conference of the Association of Legal Writing Directors, University of Denver, Sturm College of Law, Denver, Colorado, June 15, 2007.
Speaker: Revision in the Classroom: An Alternative to Peer Review, Rocky Mountain Conference, The William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 10, 2007.
