Bar Buzz: Clary's contribution to legal writing honored.

Byline: Minnesota Lawyer

University of Minnesota Law School Professor Brad Clary has been named the 2020 recipient of the Thomas F. Blackwell Memorial Award for outstanding achievement in the field of legalwriting.

This distinguished award is presented annually by the Association of Legal Writing Directors (ALWD) and the Legal Writing Institute (LWI) to a person who has made an outstanding contribution to improve the field of legal writing by demonstrating (1) an ability to nurture and motivate students to excellence; (2) a willingness to help other legal writing educators improve their teaching skills or their legal writing programs; and, (3) an ability to create and integrate new ideas for teaching and motivating legal writing educators andstudents.

Clary, a clinical professor of law, has served the legal writing community for 37 years...