Sentences with phrase «posts about legal writing»

Posts about legal writing and litigation strategies, news about legal conferences and the occasional academic job announcement.

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She has been a supporter of the movement to ban legal abortion, proudly marching in the streets, she wrote in a January 2016 post reacting to a story about Hillary Clinton meeting with Mother Teresa.

«While I am proud of California's legal cannabis law, I can see why saying this to you can be misinterpreted because you are not 21,» Lieu wrote in reply to Kashuv about the post.

Washington, DC About Blog Read the latest legal writing articles and posts on briefwriting, editing, judges, professional development, style, tone, and more from Ross Guberman.

Her boyfriend, TV writer Brian Millikin, suggested she spend the summer writing about the woman who had fixated her for years: Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham, who braved the Nixon administration's legal threats and her own insecurities to print the Pentagon Papers.

I even wrote a post last year about where to find legal copies of free Kindle ebooks.

«We made Focus by Firefox because we believe content blockers need to be transparent with publishers and other content providers about how lists are created and maintained, rather than placing certain content in a permanent penalty box,» Mozilla Chief Legal and Business Officer Denelle Dixon - Thayer wrote in a blog post.

For example, I write a legal - thriller, and I post content about my book giveaway, and I target people who liked «The Pelican Brief.»

Washington, DC About Blog Read the latest legal writing articles and posts on briefwriting, editing, judges, professional development, style, tone, and more from Ross Guberman.

Washington, DC About Blog Read the latest legal writing articles and posts on briefwriting, editing, judges, professional development, style, tone, and more from Ross Guberman.

Two years ago, I wrote a post titled, In Litigation and Legal Research, Judge Analytics is the New Black, in which I discussed three products — Lex Machina, Ravel Law and ALM Judicial Perspectives — that were extracting data from court dockets and applying analytics to reveal insights about judges, such as how they might rule on a specific type of motion or how long they might take to issue a decision.

This post on the Legal Writing Prof Blog directs us to a good primer put out by the University of North Carolina Writing Center that debunks several myths about the passive voice, and also lays out at least three instances in which writers should feel free to use it.

Posts include snarky op - eds related to the legal news of the day, columns written by law students and young practicing lawyers about their experiences in the profession, coverage of quirky legal news stories — and a weekly caption contest.

I also wrote recently about Mootus, a different kind of crowdsourced research site at which users post legal issues to be «argued» and other users post cases that are relevant to the issue.

In a post here last week, I wrote about findings on social networking from the 2010 Legal Technology Survey Report of the ABA Legal Technology Resource Center.

The letter expressed concern that the blog post in question sent «a message that legal research and writing («LRW») courses are not rigorous, underestimates the ability of LRW faculty to comment on students» cognitive skills, harms students by discounting the valuable and thoughtful insight we have to offer about students seeking to transfer to Yale, and devalues LRW professors as a whole.»

In a post earlier this week, I wrote about the launch of Avvo Advisor, the new service from Avvo that provides on - demand legal advice by phone for a fixed fee of $ 39 for 15 minutes.

In recent weeks, I've written posts about two new legal startups, LawTova and Text to Ticket, and described ties they appeared to have to another legal startup, QuickLegal, that shut down amid fraud allegations concerning its founder Derek Bluford.

The week features a mix of reflective pieces on the nature of legal research and writing and the teaching and learning of the same in legal education, and substantive posts students wrote about their major memo legal research.

Regular readers of this blog may remember that I have written a number of posts about Derek Bluford, a one - time rising star on the legal tech start - up scene whose star fell after I reported in 2016 of his settlement of a lawsuit charging him with impersonating a lawyer, forging legal documents and fraudulently swindling two clients.

His collaboration with Scalia grew out of his earlier project, in which he interviewed eight of the nine Supreme Court justices about legal writing and advocacy and posted the interviews online.

Regular readers of this blog may remember that I have written a number of posts about Derek Bluford, a one - time rising star on the legal tech start - up scene whose star fell after I reported in 2016 of his settlement of a lawsuit charging him with impersonating a lawyer, forging legal documents and fraudulently swindling two -LSB-...]

His post today, «A journalist's view...,» is a keeper for anyone writing about the legal world.

On March 13, 2017, I wrote a post about the startup LawTova, with the headline, Legal Startup Appears to Shut Down After I Question Its Management.

Ideas include: 1) writing about a recent news story as it relates to your practice areas, 2) writing about new cases as they are issued and include your take on the case, 3) writing about another blogger's recent post and provide an opposing, or alternate, viewpoint, or 4) answering questions about the legal process that clients typically ask you, such as what types of information they should bring to the first appointment or how long a jury trial might last.

To know even the minute details about how to start a business in USA for non citizens, writing legal contracts and sending them over to the best contract lawyer for lawyer contract review, read this post till the end.

The first post I wrote for SLAW was called «Of Baked Beans and the Rule of Law», and it was about how we, the legal profession, should be telling the story of access to justice in a way that alters awareness and behaviour on a grander scale.

In addition to the holidays, I argued at the Fifth Circuit; published two articles at The Huffington Post (here and here); produced a podcast episode on appellate practice for the ABA's Sound Advice series; gave a presentation to the Dallas Bar Association (about the post-election Supreme Court and Trump's list of possible nominees); participated in a panel discussion about e-briefs and legal writing at the annual meeting of the Council of Chief Judges of State Courts of Appeal (in North Carolina); was cited on SCOTUSblog and the Appellate Advocacy Blog (both here and here); and was quoted by Bloomberg (here, here, here, and here), CNN, and the Winnipeg Free Press.

Yesterday, I wrote a post here about the debut of Law Ratchet, a site that aggregates legal news and blog posts.

In a post I wrote in November 2009 at Legal Blog Watch, Appeals Court Lawyer «Traffics» in Term Papers, I told you about Damian R. Bonazzoli, then a senior staff attorney for the Massachusetts Appeals Court who advertised himself on Craigslist as available to write term papers for a fee, even though it is against Massachusetts law -LSB-...]

Last March, I wrote a post here about LawPivot, a website where companies can pose legal questions and get answers from lawyers.

In 2009, I wrote a post about ExampleMotion, a site where lawyers can share and even sell pleadings, motions and other legal documents.

Last November in a post at Legal Blog Watch, I wrote about the theatrical release of the film, William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe.

In a post earlier this week at Legal Blog Watch, I wrote about the 10th anniversary conference of Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Harvard's «courtship» of Jonathan Zittrain to accept a tenured position on its faculty.

Here is what I wrote about earlier today in my posts at Law.com's Legal Blog Watch: Same Sex Marriage in... New York?

Recently at Law.com's Legal Blog Watch, in a post titled Massacring the Boston Massacre Trial, I wrote about bloggers» critiques of the dramatization of that trial in the recent HBO miniseries, John Adams.

Rule of Law is written by a Canadian lawyer who posts about trusts and estates issues he encounters in his practice, as well as other legal issues that interest him.

One blog that frequently appears in these alerts is the Legal Writing Prof Blog, which posts blurbs about open legal - writing - professor jobs and other miscelLegal Writing Prof Blog, which posts blurbs about open legal - writing - professor jobs and other miscWriting Prof Blog, which posts blurbs about open legal - writing - professor jobs and other miscellegal - writing - professor jobs and other miscwriting - professor jobs and other miscellany.

I have written previous posts about my skepticism regarding this program, particularly with respect to the unsupported claims by its proponents that the program will lower legal costs and increase access to justice.

When my colleague Carolyn Elefant isn't posting here at Legal Blog Watch, she of course writes her own blog, My Shingle, where she has a jaw - dropping post about a law - practice «franchise» gone bad.

A few months back, we posted about the deterioration of legal writing and theorized that the proliferation of e-mail, texting and Twitter — all of which encourage stream - of - consciousness ramblings and careless phrasing — might explain the erosion of writing skills.

Read, for example, Matthew Salzwedel's post about appealing to reason and logic in your legal writing.

A few weeks ago, in a post here about Fastcase's addition of blog commentary from the LexBlog Network, I wrote that for any legal research company aiming to compete in the big leagues against the likes of Westlaw and LexisNexis, «secondary content is the Holy Grail.»

Are there any law blogs that bring in Legal Writing professors to write posts translating into Plain English what the law bloggers previously wrote about?

In a post here May 19, LegalZoom Suffers Setback in North Carolina, I wrote about recent legal developments in South Carolina and North Carolina involving claims that LegalZoom is engaged in the unauthorized practice of law.

In a post yesterday, In Litigation and Legal Research, Judge Analytics is the New Black, I wrote about three websites that provide data and analytics about judges.

In a post here two months ago, I wrote about recent developments involving LegalZoom in South Carolina and North Carolina, where legal actions had sought to shut down the company as engaged in the unauthorized practice of law.

I wrote in my last post that the «blockchain will alter the way we think about contracts and several types of legal documents will effectively be software - like.»

Mitch Kowalski also wrote about the new service for the National Post: The YouTube of all things legal, LegalTube.ca makes Canadian law accessible and easy to understand (National Post, August 29, 2014).

Last January, Andrew Perlman wrote a thoughtful post about this at Legal Ethics Forum.