Timing is Everything: Teaching Essential Time Management Skills for "Real-World" Legal Writing

Picture it. Your students are newly minted lawyers all fresh and shiny from passing the bar. Their boss, a short-tempered curmudgeon, gives them one week to write an appellate brief. In their legal writing class, these same students likely had an entire semester to write a brief. Can these students successfully manage the inevitable psychological stressors triggered by the time constraints of the real world of legal writing? Perhaps more importantly, does the legal writing curriculum provide students with the requisite time management skills to

survive the rigors of writing in law practice?