ASSOCIATION OF LEGAL WRITING DIRECTORS

Association  of  Legal  Writing  Directors.A  nonprofit  corporation  composed  of  the  directors

and former directors of law-school legal-writing programs, mostly in the United States. • Created

in  1996  to  improve  those  programs,  it  supports  research  and  scholarship;  holds  a  biennial

conference;  conducts  (with  the  Legal  Writing  Institute)  an  annual  survey  of  the  programs;

maintains  a  listserv;  represents  writing  teachers  before  the  American  Bar  Asso-ciation;  and

publishes various resources, including the ALWD Citation Manual. — Abbr. ALWD (al-wid).

ASSOIL

assoil  (<<schwa>>-soyl),  vb.[Law  French]  Hist.  To  acquit  or  absolve;  to  deliver  from

excommunication. — Also spelled assoile. — Also termed absoile; assoilyie.[Blacks Law 8th]