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While law schools traditionally focus on teaching writing skills based on litigation, students and employers are increasingly viewing drafting skills as an equally critical part of a lawyer's career development and success.

With that need in mind, Northwestern Law is hosting the first national conference on “Teaching Contract Drafting” to provide law schools with effective tools they can use to train students to be better business lawyers.

The two-day conference will take place July 20 and 21 at the School of Law, 357 E. Chicago Ave., and is co-organized by Professors Susan Irion and Judith Rosenbaum of Northwestern; Richard K. Neumann Jr. of Hofstra University School of Law; and Tina Stark of Fordham University School of Law.

Professors from law schools across the country will participate in workshops highlighting the importance of contract drafting in today's law school curricula, essential guidelines for competent drafting, new approaches to teaching transactional law, and lessons on how to merge drafting instruction in substantive courses.

Northwestern Law's Teaching Conferences provide law professors with an opportunity to hone their professional skills as teachers in areas such as negotiation, mediation, contract drafting, and problem solving, and to learn new or original teaching methods in legal education.

For more information, visit the Teaching Conferences Web site.

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