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]