Director of Legal Writing

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Working Title

Working Title Director of Legal Writing

Position Number

Position Number f610932

Appointment Type

Appointment Type Permanent
- Full Time

FTE

FTE 1=9/10 month
-Faculty only

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North Carolina Central University School of Law was founded to provide opportunities for African Americans to become lawyers. Embracing our heritage, our mission is to provide a high quality, personalized, practice-oriented and affordable legal education to historically underrepresented students from diverse backgrounds in order to help diversify the legal profession. We empower all of our graduates to become highly competent and socially responsible lawyers and leaders committed to public service and to meeting the needs of under-served communities.

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The Director of Legal Writing provides academic and administrative leadership for the School of Law’s legal writing program. The Director assist with the development, coordination, and assessment of the legal writing curriculum and supports faculty in delivering a rigorous and consistent program. The position advances the School of Law’s commitment to student success, bar readiness, and practice preparation by strengthening students’ legal analysis, research, writing, and professional communication skills.

This is posting for a Legal Writing Director in the School of Law beginning in FY 27-28. The Legal Writing Director will teach various courses within the legal writing curriculum and any other courses in the Law program as assigned. The Legal Writing Director will be paid an annual salary. The Legal Writing Director will be responsible for holding office hours that correspond to the course hours taught.

• 1.Expertise in subject matter hired to teach
• 2. Ability to design and teach courses at the J.D. level
• 3. Excellent oral and written English communication skills
• 4. Excellent organizational and time management skills
• 5. Basic computer skills, proficient in the use of Microsoft Office or similar software
• 6. Experience with software related to legal education (e.g.…