Daniel L . Real, JD

Associate Professor

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DanielReal1@creighton.edu
School of Law
Faculty - Law
LAWC - Ahmanson Law Center - 273

Daniel L . Real, JD

Associate Professor

Professor Real has been a member of the Creighton Law faculty for more than 20 years. He teaches required legal analysis and writing courses for first and second year students, upper level advanced writing and analysis courses, Professional Responsibility, Commercial Contracts, and Sports Law. He is the faculty advisor for the Sports Law Concentration, and he serves as the faculty moderator for the student Sports and Entertainment Law Society. He has been a coach for Creighton School of Law’s highly successful third year National Moot Court Teams since the 2008-2009 academic year, and also coaches other nationally competitive moot court and negotiations teams. Professor Real is a member of the Legal Writing Institute, a national organization of legal writing and skills instructors, and is the former chair of the LWI Website and Social Media committee. He served on the diversity committee for the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). He is a member of the Appellate Practice Section of the Nebraska State Bar Association and was one of the organizing editors for the NSBA Appellate Practice Manual.  He is also a contributing editor on the Appellate Advocacy Blog, a legal blog on the law professors blog network. He is the author of Thompson Reuters Publishing's Nebraska Appellate Practice and Procedure Handbook and its annual updates.  His other published scholarship and national presentations have focused on written and oral advocacy, appellate practice, implicit bias, bar exam preparation, and sports law. Prior to becoming a member of the faculty, he served as a judicial staff attorney for the Nebraska Court of Appeals for 20 years.

Research Focus

Implicit Bias, Judicial Selection and Retention, Collaborative Learning, Legal Writing, Appellate Practice, Professional Responsibility

Department

Law

Position

Associate Professor

Books

  • Daniel L. Real, Nebraska Appellate Practice and Procedure, 2022-23 ed. 2022
  • Nebraska Appellate Practice Handbook (Daniel L. Real, Danny C. Leavitt & Lorrie B. Benson eds) 2016
  • Daniel L. Real, Civil Appeals to the Nebraska Supreme Court and the Nebraska Court of Appeals, in Nebraska Appellate Practice Handbook 73 (Daniel L. Real, Danny C. Leavitt & Lorrie B. Benson eds)  2016
  • Daniel L. Real, Criminal Appeals to the Nebraska Supreme Court and the Nebraska Court of Appeals, in Nebraska Appellate Practice Handbook 107 (Daniel L. Real, Danny C. Leavitt & Lorrie B. Benson eds)  2016
  • Daniel L. Real, Motion Practice in the Nebraska Supreme Court and the Nebraska Court of Appeals, in Nebraska Appellate Practice Handbook 149 (Daniel L. Real, Danny C. Leavitt & Lorrie B. Benson eds) 2016
  • Daniel L. Real, Rules Governing Briefs in the Nebraska Supreme Court and the Nebraska Court of Appeals, in Nebraska Appellate Practice Handbook 345 (Daniel L. Real, Danny C. Leavitt & Lorrie B. Benson eds) 2016

Articles

  • John J. Coté, John Haggstrom, Ranuga Vivekanandan, Kristin A. Coté, Daniel L. Real, David P. Weber, Anne Cheng, Nicholas G. Dubay & Robin Farias-Eisner, COVID-19 and a Novel Initiative to Improve Safety by 3D Printing Personal Protective Equipment Parts from Computed Tomography, 6 3D PRINTING MED. (2020), https://doi.org/10.1186/s41205-020-00073-6. 2020
  • Daniel L. Real, Appellate Briefs: Law School Lessons Adapted to the Real World, Mar./Apr./May 2016, Student Law., at 20. 2016
  • David A. Domina & Daniel L. Real, The Insider's Guide to the Nebraska Appellate Courts, in 2 Appellate Practice Compendium 949 (Dana Livingston ed) 2012
  • John Irwin & Daniel L. Real, Judicial Independence and Retention Votes, Neb. Law., Jan. 2011, at 5. 2011
  • John F. Irwin & Daniel L. Real, Enriching Judicial Independence: Seeking to Improve the Retention Vote Phase of an Appointive Selection System, 34 Fordham Urb. L.J. 453 2007
  • Daniel L. Real, Appellate Practice in Nebraska: A Primer, Neb. Law., July 2006, at 5. 2006
  • John F. Irwin & Daniel L. Real, Thoughts About Enriching Judicial Independence by Improving the Retention Vote Phase of Appointive Selection Systems, 43 Ct. Rev. 60 2006
  • Daniel L. Real, Appellate Practice in Nebraska: A Thorough, Though not Exhaustive, Primer in How to Do It and How to Be More Effective, 39 Creighton L. Rev. 29 2005

General

  • John F. Irwin & Daniel L. Real, Unconscious Influences on Judicial Decision-making: The Illusion of Objectivity, 42 McGeorge L. Rev. 1 2010

Presentations

  • Legal Writing Institute Biennial Meeting Presentation on Collaborative Student Learning Models with Professor Kristy Cote. 2016
  • Continuing Education Seminar for Oregon Bar Association in Portland, Oregon. 2016