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Improving Your Microsoft Word Skills
My wife’s grandfather is a master with tools. Give him some wood and it’s amazing what he can create. It’s obvious that he has spent years mastering his tools. My primary tool as… more »
Legal Frontier
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 »
Scalia and Charlie Rose
West wrote 1 week ago: Charlie Rose’s interview with United States Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia air … more »
Smelling Legal
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jenniferalvey wrote 3 weeks ago: I stumbled across this great phrase, smelling legal, on Wayne Scheiss’ legal writing blog. Wha … more »
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 Bluebook
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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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Design and Lawyers
amitton wrote 4 months ago: Jim Guterman at O’Reilly Radar has a good article entitled Teaching Design to Businesspeople. … more »
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 »
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 »
All Caps in Contracts
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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 »
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!
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iamnotalawyer wrote 5 months ago: I’m not planning to talk about SCOTUS (that’s the Supreme Court Of The United States) mu … more »
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 »
Judge Posner on Legal Writing
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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!
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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 »
Legal Writing Exercises
theunauthorizedpracticeoflaw wrote 9 months ago: Finally, in plain langauge, Bryan A. Garner, presents Legal Writing in Plain English, “organiz … more »
