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EDITORS-IN-CHIEF
Joan Ames Magat
Duke University School of Law
Ruth Anne Robbins
Rutgers School of Law–Camden
MANAGING EDITOR
Suzianne D. Painter-Thorne
Mercer University School of Law
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Susan Bay
Marquette University Law School
Sara Benson
University of Illinois College of Law
Jessica L. Clark
George Washington University Law School
Jeffrey D. Jackson
Washburn University School of Law
Book Review Editor
Thomas D. Cobb
University of Washington School of Law
EDITORIAL BOARD
Jason K. Cohen
Rutgers School of Law—Camden
Melody Richardson Daily University of Missouri School of Law
Ian Gallacher
Syracuse University School of Law
Sara G. Gordon
William S. Boyd School of Law (UNLV)
Carol McCrehan Parker
University of Tennessee College of Law
Teresa Godwin Phelps
Washington College of Law (American University)
Marilyn R. Walter
Brooklyn Law School
Melissa Weresh
Drake University Law School
Legal Communication & Rhetoric: JALWD (LC&R) (ISSN 1550-0950) is an annual publication of the Association of Legal Writing Directors. Its mission is to advance the study and practice of professional legal writing by becoming an active resource for the profession and by establishing a forum for conversation between prac- ticing lawyers and judges and legal writing scholars and teachers. For back issues and further information, see www.alwd.org/lc&r.html.
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Submission of articles. Submissions are due on or before September 1 of the calendar year before an upcoming issue. We welcome articles on any topic that falls within the mission of LC&R: to develop scholarship focusing on the substance and practice of professional legal writing, broadly defined, and to make that scholarship accessible and helpful to practitioners as well as to legal academics. Without compro- mising analytical rigor and the necessary theoretical and research foundation, our goal is to publish articles that are readable and usable by the broader audience of profes- sional legal writers.
We are looking for clear, concrete, direct writing; strong, interesting, intelligent voices; and a style that uses the text for substance and the footnotes to provide support, sources, and references for additional study.
Exclusive submission preferred / peer review and the effect on expedited requests. LC&R uses peer review (1) to make knowledgeable choices of worthwhile articles; (2) to assure impartial review; and (3) to provide informed feedback and guidance to authors of selected articles.
LC&R prefers exclusive submission of manuscripts. If an author has submitted the manuscript elsewhere or wishes to do so, the author should inform the Journal at the time of submission and notify the Journal immediately should the author accept another offer of publication. Because our articles undergo an anonymous, peer-review process before being offered an acceptance, it is unusual for the journal to be able to accommodate expedited reviews of under two weeks.
Technical requirements. Manuscripts should be accompanied by (1) a cover letter summarizing the article and (2) the résumé of the author, including telephone number and e-mail address. For major articles, LC&R will consider manuscripts from 5,000- 10,000 words of text, and will consider submissions that are no more than 15,000 words maximum, including footnotes. For practice notes, LC&R recommends manuscripts of approximately 2,500 to 5,000 words of text, and up to 7,000 words maximum, including footnotes. All manuscripts must be created and submitted in MS Word format. (We require creation as well as submission in MS Word because our design software is incompatible with documents created in WordPerfect and later converted to Word.) LC&R follows the ALWD Citation Manual format for citations. If an accepted article is submitted in Blue Book format, the author will be responsible for converting the citations during the editing process. All accepted authors will be asked to provide copies of source materials that are unavailable through normal legal-research methods.
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