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24 Legal Writing: J. Legal Writing Inst. i (2020)

handle is hein.journals/jlwriins24 and id is 1 raw text is: EDITOR'S NOTE Volume 24 of the Journal is proof of the growing strength and diversity of our LRW community. This volume includes more than 420 pages of legal writing scholarship, with ten essays, seven articles, and two book reviews. We are indeed seeing a rising tide in the legal writing community, as Suzanne Rowe notes in this volume's opening essay. Editing this volume required remarkable work by the Editorial Board, aided by the largest team of Assistant Editors I've seen in my time with the Journal. As I write this, we are heading into an extended period of social distancing. On the first day my institution sent students home and we all shifted (with varying degrees of trepidation) to online educating, my inbox was flooded with resources from my more experienced LRW peers. We shared those resources with our faculty at my institution, and thus the strength of some generous members of the LRW community became part of the perceived strength of the LRW community, and then increased our institution's ability to teach well in pressing times. Our sense of community, and our increased visibility as a community, are the beginning themes for our series of essays. Suzanne's essay begins the series and sets the theme, with reflections and suggestions as to how we can all build on this strength and deepen our commitment to our community and to individuals who are not being lifted by the rising tide. The essays that follow comment in some way on this theme, from essays on personal, professional growth and satisfaction; to essays on enriching a programmatic community; to essays on the future of legal writing and the consequences of and to our growing reputation and value. This volume's articles are similarly varied. We are pleased to publish: * David Cleveland and Jeff Jackson's next installation on the history of legal writing. This article begins with the end of the Civil War, when many law schools closed, to the 1930s, when the teaching of legal writing and skills generally was robust.