Connie Krontz

Biography

After her clerkship and before joining the law school faculty in 1994, Professor Krontz worked as a staff attorney at the Washington Appellate Defender Association, a nonprofit organization, which was responsible for indigent appeals in Washington's seven northwest counties.

Within the nationally recognized legal writing program, Professor Krontz teaches legal research, objective and persuasive writing, and oral advocacy. Professor Krontz has served as an advisor and coach for the Moot Court team, and she has provided training on brief writing and oral argument. She has also done presentations on outlining for the Seattle University law Review and Seattle Journal for Social Justice.

Professor Krontz is a member of the Legal Writing Institute, and she has made presentations at three LWI biannual conferences. She and Professor Lorraine Bannai co-presented "Conducting Effective Conferences." She and Professor McClellan co-presented "Effectively Teaching Arguments, What Works and What Doesn’t: Teaching Coherency in Three-Part Harmony." They also co-presented "The Perspectives of Lawyers and Judges: As We Prepare Our Students For the Practice of Law, Do We Understand the 21st Century Practice?" The related article, "Improving Legal Writing Courses: Perspectives from the Bar and Bench," was published in Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute. In addition, Professor Krontz presented "Using Analogous Case Descriptions to Teach Students to Write Principle-Based Arguments," at the Pacific Northwest Legal Writing Regional Conference.

Professor Krontz has presented a number of CLEs on brief writing for the King County Bar Association and the Washington State Office of Public Defense.

Professor Krontz is currently working with co-authors Laurel Oates and Anne Enquist on the second edition of Just Briefs, expected publication fall 2008.

Books

Just Briefs (2d ed., Aspen 2007) (with Laurel Currie Oates and Anne Enquist).

Articles

Improving Legal Writing Courses: Perspectives From the Bar and Bench, 8 Legal Writing 201 (2002) (with Susan McClellan).