Law Practice
Oct. 14, 2019
Writing and speaking for a living
The point I try to impress upon students is it takes preparation. Even after 25 years in the classroom, I still need to review the reading, and every year I revise my notes or create them anew.
Frank H. Wu
President Designate
Queens College
Frank is William L. Prosser Distinguished professor at UC Hastings College of the Law.
My students sometimes marvel that, like my peers, I can write a paper or prepare a speech in what seems to them to be no time at all. That is an illusion, and, similar to all illusions, it is based on erroneous expectations. I explain to laypeople that all law school graduates can do what I do. I believe that.
I am fast. That is not praise. I am self-critical too; I should be slower. I know I am not always good, due to the deliberate...
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