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World of Warcraft Meets Legal Writing

jenniferalvey wrote 4 days ago: My hat is off to William B. Chandler III, the chief judge of the Delaware Court of Chancery. He comb … more »

Tags: Writing Advice, Chief Judge William B. Chandler III, World of Warcraft

Scalia and Charlie Rose

West wrote 1 week ago: Charlie Rose’s interview with United States Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia air … more »

Tags: antonin scalia, Black's Law Dictionary, Books, Supreme Court, Video, West, Bryan Garner, Supreme Court, making your case

Smelling Legal1 comment

jenniferalvey wrote 3 weeks ago: I stumbled across this great phrase, smelling legal, on Wayne Scheiss’ legal writing blog. Wha … more »

Tags: smelling legal, Wayne Scheiss, legal vocabulary

ABA Journal Interviews Scalia and Garner

Mark Jakubik wrote 1 month ago: Justice Scalia and Bryan Garner gave an interview recently to the ABA Journal in which they discuss … more »

Abolish the Bluebook2 comments

Mark Jakubik wrote 1 month ago: Ilya Somin has a post up at the Volokh Conspiracy on an issue that, although esoteric, is near and d … more »

Tags: Bluebook, citation, Legal Writing

Insights From Legal Writing Prof

Antoinette Sedillo Lopez wrote 2 months ago: As I was frantically trying to clear out my emails to stay under my disk quota, I ran across an emai … more »

Tags: Teaching Methodology, Who is Using the Best Practices Book?, Add new tag

Improving Your Microsoft Word Skills

amitton wrote 3 months ago: My wife’s grandfather is a master with tools.  Give him some wood and it’s amazing what … more »

Tags: Legal Technology, Microsoft Word

Not Dead (Yet)

leavinglaw wrote 3 months ago: For the 3 or so of you still reading, no I have not died. Or abandoned this blog. I’ve even be … more »

Tags: BigLaw, intellectual property lawyers, perfect lawyers

Design and Lawyers

amitton wrote 4 months ago: Jim Guterman at O’Reilly Radar has a good article entitled Teaching Design to Businesspeople. … more »

Tags: Contracts, Law

From Handshakes to Contracts to Judges

amitton wrote 4 months ago: How many times have you heard someone say “don’t you wish we could go back to the days w … more »

Tags: Law, Legal Writing, Contracts

The phone is cheaper than a legal memo

amitton wrote 5 months ago: How much value is there in the legal memo?  The memo provides some legal analysis.  But I bet if y … more »

Tags: Law, Legal Writing, Lawyers

All Caps in Contracts3 comments

amitton wrote 5 months ago: I remember being in the computer lab one day during my law school years. A group of law students su … more »

Tags: Contracts, Legal Writing

Translating Legalese for the Customer

amitton wrote 5 months ago: Who are you trying to make happy — the lawyers or the customer? Seth Godin asks the same ques … more »

Medieval Help Desk

amitton wrote 5 months ago: Thank goodness for the help desk — the 21st century’s blankie (that’s what my kids … more »

Linguistic wonkery at the Supreme Court!2 comments

iamnotalawyer wrote 5 months ago: I’m not planning to talk about SCOTUS (that’s the Supreme Court Of The United States) mu … more »

Tags: SCOTUS, Appellate, wonkery

Tribune Company CEO Randy Michaels is not a lawyer AFAIK.

iamnotalawyer wrote 5 months ago: I am a big fan of legal documents that don’t read like legal documents. It saves everyone a lo … more »

Tags: labor and employment

Judge Posner on Legal Writing1 comment

Mark Jakubik wrote 5 months ago: In a recent opinion, Seventh Circuit Judge Richard Posner, who some describe as perhaps the greatest … more »

I am so smart! S-M-R-T!6 comments

ithinkimdying wrote 9 months ago: I am doing a little dance in my pants right now. I took a practice midterm in my Torts class about a … more »

Tags: Exams, Law School, Torts

Legal Writing Exercises

theunauthorizedpracticeoflaw wrote 9 months ago: Finally, in plain langauge, Bryan A. Garner, presents Legal Writing in Plain English, “organiz … more »

Tags: Uncategorized


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