This year's keynote address will be by Linda Edwards, the 2008-2009 Blackwell Award Winner, Macon Professor of Law and the Director of the Legal Writing Program at Mercer University School of Law, and currently a Visiting Professor of Law at William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV.

Events will kick off on Friday with registration, a welcome reception, and some sessions. Saturday will include a full day's worth of sessions on a variety of legal writing and research topics.  There will be sessions for both new and experienced legal writing professionals.  Finally, Sunday may offer an ALWD Scholar's Workshop. Detailed program information will be available at a later date.

The call for proposals is available on the Program Details page .  Proposals are due by January 23, 2009.