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BACKGROUND
Jane Kent Gionfriddo began teaching in the Legal Reasoning, Research & Writing Program at Boston College Law School in 1982 and was admitted to practice in Massachusetts the same year. In 1985, she became the director of the program and held this position for twenty-two years. In May 1999, Professor Gionfriddo was awarded the Boston College Distinguished Teaching Award for 1999-2000. Professor Gionfriddo has held a variety of positions with the Legal Writing Institute, an organization devoted to the pedagogy and scholarship of legal analysis and writing and whose almost 2000 members come from law schools and English departments in the United States as well as from foreign countries. She served as a member of the Board of Directors for the Institute from 1995 to 2004, and served as President from 2000 through 2002. From 1994 to 2000, she also co-edited, with several LRR&W colleagues from the Law School, the Institute’s semi-annual newsletter, “The Second Draft.” Professor Gionfriddo has co-chaired many committees for the Legal Writing Institute, including the Election Committee that ran the most recent Board of Directors election and the Monograph Committee that brought forward a proposal for a monograph series to the Board of Directors. Accepting the committee’s proposal, the LWI Board appointed Professor Gionfriddo as the Editor-in-Chief of the new monograph series, beginning Spring 2008. This series, which will be electronically published on the Institute’s website, will focus on pedagogical topics to promote excellence in teaching legal analysis and writing, and will begin with a volume on teacher feedback on student writing. Professor Gionfriddo has worked as a consultant at major Boston law firms, giving presentations to and working individually with associates, and has also been a consultant at other law schools on curricular issues, including Harvard Law School. In addition, Professor Gionfriddo has presented widely, including multiple times at the Legal Writing Institute Conference, at the Association of Legal Writing Directors Conference, at the American Association of Law Schools Annual Conference, and at the American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting and Conference. A co-founder of the New England Consortium of Legal Writing Teachers, a regional organization that seeks to promote excellence in teaching, Professor Gionfriddo organized an interactive workshop on analytical feedback on student writing. Professor Gionfriddo’s scholarship focuses on pedagogical issues concerning legal analysis and writing, including her most recent article published in the Texas Tech Law Review on the importance of lawyers’ synthesizing cases in a sophisticated manner. This article was chosen as the lead article and awarded the Texas Tech Law Review’s Outstanding Lead Article in Volume 40 Book 1 Award. As a member of the American Bar Association Subcommittee on Communication Skills, Professor Gionfriddo worked as a contributing author on the second edition of the Sourcebook on Legal Writing Programs, which discusses “best practices” in the field of legal analysis, writing and research.
J.D., Boston University; B.A., Wesleyan University.
COURSES Fall '07: Legal Reasoning Research & Writing
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