SCHOOL OF LAW

Wayne C Schiess

Senior Lecturer

JD 1989, Cornell
BA 1986, Brigham Young University

Mr. Schiess is the director of the legal-writing program and teaches legal writing, legal drafting, and plain English. He is also a frequent seminar speaker on those subjects. He has published more than a dozen articles on practical legal-writing skills, plus two books with two more underway. In 2007, his legal-writing blog was named one of the ABA Journal Blawg 100: "The best Websites by lawyers for lawyers." He graduated from Cornell Law School, practiced law for three years at the Texas firm of Baker Botts, and in 1992 joined the faculty at Texas.