Professor Howell is the School of Law's Legal Writing Director. Professor Howell teaches Appellate Advocacy, Legal Analysis, and Legal Writing, and coaches the Law School's National Moot Court team. He joined the faculty in 1996 after practicing civil litigation with a Missoula law firm for four years. Before graduating with high honors from The University of Montana School of Law in 1992, he worked as a newspaper reporter and editor, receiving several awards for investigative reporting.
He is also a member of the Amicus Committee of the Montana Trial Lawyers Association. Outside interests include poker, cooking, and golf, as well as hiking, fishing, and camping with his wife, Ellen Leahy, and his children, Emily and Sam.
RECENT PRESENTATIONS
Football CLE Presentation, Ten Tips for Better
Briefs (Missoula,
MT, Oct. 10, 2009).
Handout
Materials
PUBLICATIONS
Deconstructing CRAC: Teaching proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law in a first-year legal-writing program, 14 Scribes J. Leg. Writing ___ (2012)
(available at SSRN: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1966262)
Once upon a time in the west: Citizens United, Caperton, and the War of the Copper Kings, 73 Mont. L. Rev. ___ (2012) (available at SSRN: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=19662490)
“Purely the Creature of the Inventive
Genius of the Court”: State ex rel.
Whiteside and the Creation and Evolution of
the Montana Supreme Court’s Unique and Controversial
Writ of Supervisory Control, 69 Mont. L. Rev.
1 (2008).
Environmental Crimes: The Boom in "Busting" Corporations
and Their Responsible Officers, 16 Am.
J. Trial Advoc. 417 (1992).
PRESENTATIONS
CLE Presentation, Ten Tips for Better Briefs (Missoula, Mont. Oct. 10, 2009). (if you would like to obtain a copy of handout materials, please email Professor Howell) |
