On March 12, 2019, West Virginia University College of Law professors
Jessica Haught,
Melanie Stimeling,
Amy Cyphert, and
David Krech taught a full day CLE program in Columbus, Ohio. The CLE was a
two-day program entitled
“Legal Writing & Appellate Advocacy 2019”. WVU law faculty taught on the
first day of the CLE which was devoted to legal writing.
The CLE was organized by the Committee on Regional Training ("CORT"). CORT is a consortium
of almost all the civil legal services programs in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and
West Virginia, which pay dues to support the costs of presenting high quality training
specific to the context and needs of legal services lawyers. CORT was formed in
1981 with the leadership of
Marjorie McDiarmid, then the Regional Administrator for the Legal Services
Corporation. CORT provides a regular curriculum of both skills trainings (Basic
Lawyer Skills, Negotiations, Litigation Planning, Trial Skills, etc) and substantive
law events.