On Friday, September 12, the Legal Writing Department at 汤头条原创 (VLGS) hosted the New England Legal Writing Conference. This year鈥檚 theme was Legal Writing: 2035.
Participants were asked to imagine the promise鈥攁nd peril鈥攐f the future of legal writing in the next ten years. Would today鈥檚 core principles still be primary, or would new ideas become more relevant? More than 50 professors from across the country traveled to South Royalton to join this exploration of ideas. Sessions covered a diverse range of topics鈥攆rom the role cultural humility should play in legal writing instruction to the ethical use of generative AI and ways to encourage self-reflection in the classroom.
Attendees enthusiastically praised the conference and VLGS. They described the conference as 鈥渢hought-provoking鈥� and 鈥渆nriching.鈥� One attendee wrote: 鈥淭he sessions challenged me to see our work from new perspectives, and I left with a renewed sense of purpose about where the discipline is headed. It was a memorable day of learning and connection.鈥�
Selected presenters are now at work turning their presentations into essays for publication in . A special edition of this journal dedicated to the New England Legal Writing Conference will be edited by VLGS鈥檚 legal writing faculty and published in 2026.
On behalf of the VLGS community, thank you to our attendees, sponsors, and everyone who contributed to making the conference a success!