Sentences with phrase «for better legal writing»

I've posted here several times recently to pass along the blogosphere's ongoing tips for better legal writing.

Left largely unchallenged, these plain - English texts and groups established the standard for good legal writing.

In his book on outcomes assessment, Gregory Munro uses legal writing to illustrate this point: «the learning of effective legal writing increases if the teacher has identified the standards for good legal writing, conveyed those standards in advance to the students, and evaluated the writing on the basis of those standards.»

Ross is a student for good legal writing and it shows through his preparation and knowledge.

Not exact matches

On Tuesday, Wheaton College and Belmont Abbey College won a legal round against the HHS contraceptive mandate not only for themselves, but for all fellow plaintiffs as a D.C. appeals court prompted the Obama administration to promise not to enforce the mandate (as currently written) and — on top of that — regularly report on its progress toward new rules that better protect religious freedom.

Decisions had to be made from time to time as to where or when services of the church would be held; the church needed to be told of the impending visit of an apostle, or of some prophet or teacher from abroad; a question has been raised as to the good faith of one of these visitors, and there must be some discussion of the point and a decision on it; a fellow Christian from another church is on a journey and needs hospitality; a member of the local congregation planning to visit a church abroad needs a letter of introduction to that church, which someone must be authorized to provide; a serious dispute about property rights or some other legal matter has arisen between two of the brothers and the church must name someone to help them settle the issue or must in some other way deal with it; a new local magistrate has begun to prosecute Christians for violating the law against unlicensed assembly, and consideration must be given to ways and means of meeting this crisis; charges have been brought against one of the members by another member, and these must be investigated and perhaps some disciplinary action taken; one of the members has died, and the church is called on for some special action in behalf of his family in the emergency; differences of opinion exist in the church on certain questions of morals or belief (such as marriage and divorce, or the resurrection), differences which local prophets and teachers are apparently unable to compose, and a letter must be written to the apostle — who will write this letter and what exactly will it say?

According to Meg Hamill who writes for Planet Save, «Making backyard chickens legal is a good move for cities interested in reducing their ecological footprint.

«The letters are titled «Notice of Legal Information Warning», signed using the ironic name «Concerned Citizens for Good Government» and warn that «there is reason to believe that your (petition) signature has been obtained against the law,»» wrote Horacio Gutierrez, Rivera's campaign strategist.

After a multi-year legal battle between New Jersey and the four major sports leagues, MLB, NBA, NFL and NHL, to get legalized sports betting outside of Nevada only, the monumental ruling paves the way for Tioga Downs as well as the other three New York state casinos to offer this type of wagering on property once legislation is written and passed by the state.

Levine, who is a likely candidate for Jackson's seat, wrote that he believed «that a 7th Council District which includes Morningside Heights, Hamilton Heights, and Washington Heights would serve the best interests of local residents while meeting all legal requirements of the districting process.»

Even with Grimm's legal problems, the paper wrote that the opposition did not offer a better candidate for them to endorse.

«The Bayesian approach is especially well suited for a broad range of legal reasoning,» write mathematician Norman Fenton and colleagues in a recent paper in the Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application.

Author Dr. Madeline Li, a psychiatrist in the Department of Supportive Care, UHN, writes that in Canada the legal responsibility to implement MAiD required creating an institutional framework for patient assessment and provision of service, as well as a plan for educating staff about engaging in conversations with patients.

This program will include a panel of experts to provide writing - lab assistance for the charter application, as well as a panel of experts to provide various final reviews and check - lists for applicants in the areas of legal, finance, academics, and governance to help ready school developer members for the school start - up process once their application is approved.

«If fewer federal dollars were streaming into law schools» coffers and more were directed to fund legal services organizations, the legal profession — and the American legal system as a whole — would be better for it,» the board wrote: http://nyti.ms/1S4wuCU.

Adult Education English for Business and the workplace includes business English lesson plans, resume - writing advice, essential vocabulary for banking, financial, commercial, legal and other sectors as well as basic English job interview skills.

I am starting of as author and beginning to write my first book.I heard someone say if writing an actual story whether it be myself and other people I really know in the book.To have everyone sign a legal document type thing by lawyer giving permission to use peoples real names.so as to avoid any lawsuit that may occur with the book.and is it best to use a pen name for myself and made up name for actual people being included in the book.what would your opinion be on legel grounds safer to use made up names.thank you

I have linked below an article I wrote about choosing a free font for your book, as well as a variety of font foundries and other legal sources for free fonts.

Gaiman was well known for his attempts to obtain the rights to Marvelman / Miracleman, writing «Marvel 1602» in 2003 specifically to fund a legal fight over the character.

She writes historical fiction, and is well known in the indie author world for The Self - Publisher's Legal Handbook and has also recently co-written How Authors Sell Publishing Rights with Orna Ross (which we recently discussed on the podcast here).

She writes historical fiction, and is well known in the indie author world for «The Self - Publisher's Legal Handbook», which I seriously recommend several times a week.

A couple of years ago I wrote an article asking, pleading really, for any debt settlement company (DSC) to explain to me how they could ever possibly «do whatever is in the best interests of the consumer» when they are unable to give any legal advice in what are inherently legal matters.

Listening to Vaughan talk, I think again of The Bond: «For our cause to succeed,» Pacelle writes, «we have to carry the day with our moral and legal arguments, but also every workday show that business can succeed and also be good to animals.»

Over 5 years later, she continues to write on her site, Legal Nomads, as well as for Singapore Airlines, the Hipmunk, The Daily Beast, and more.

While he continues writing, Schneider now also consults on diverse projects for dealers, artists, collectors, and startups, as well as providing expert testimony in legal matters on the inner workings of the art market.

It's better — because if the private company has formal written agreements in place, they can at least have some recourse for compensation if someone like Phil Jones or his employer UEA loses track of their legal agreements and ends up harming the private companies financial interest by failing to supply these things to an adjudicator.

HLS is dedicated to exploring ways to further engage students, to better prepare them to be effective lawyers in the real world, and to innovate for the legal classroom.To that end, our faculty and staff at HLS research and write case studies, role plays, and problems that can be used and adapted in a variety of classroom settings.

Every legal researcher has come across the phrase in a judicial opinion, «It is well settled that...,» or, «It is axiomatic that...» In 2014, I wrote about a prototype legal research website that mined opinions for instances of these phrases and made them searchable as a way of helping researchers find statements of -LSB-...]

My part is to write legal opinions as to the ability of clients» ERMSs to satisfy the legal requirements of, discovery and admissibility proceedings, and of various statutes for electronic records, and those of 72.34 as well.

I summed up my sense of this in a recent post, where I wrote, «We live in a time when two guys in law school who think they have a better idea for a legal research site can run with it and create the company Ravel Law by the time they graduate.

In addition to making legal ideas understandable, The Legal Workshop seeks to house the best of legal scholarship in one place — making it easier for readers to find the best writing about all areas oflegal ideas understandable, The Legal Workshop seeks to house the best of legal scholarship in one place — making it easier for readers to find the best writing about all areas ofLegal Workshop seeks to house the best of legal scholarship in one place — making it easier for readers to find the best writing about all areas oflegal scholarship in one place — making it easier for readers to find the best writing about all areas of law.

By building the best platform to write commentary on the law, we're able to collaborate with the legal community to create an insightful, free legal resource for lawyers and the public.»

Earlier this month at Legal Blog Watch, I wrote about the Law School 100, an iPhone app for aspiring law students that ranks the 100 best law schools in the United States.

He has written NLJ's civil way column for more than 30 years and is the author of Breaking Law — The Inside Guide to Your Legal Rights & Winning in Court or Losing Well.

But like so much of what's been written about legal writing, the blog thus far engages more in telling about good legal writing, rather than showing how it's done (for the importance of show rather than tell, see, e.g., here or here).

I hesitate to write further about project management in legal practice because there has been so much said about it, but I just finished my exam to be a «Project Management Professional» (PMP), and I want to share some thoughts on why it's a good fit for legal practice and how it fits into legal information work.

The folks who run the digital forensics and IT consulting firm Sensei Enterprises, Sharon Nelson and John Simek, are well known in the legal community for their frequent speaking and writing.

I have to admit that I went into the integrated approach as an agnostic; at the time I believed that there were any number of effective ways to teach legal writing, and I was happy to teach it in the way that worked best for my institution.

The profession rejected this strictly «formalist» approach to teaching writing processes as inadequate preparation for independent legal writing and analysis.44 The shift away from models in legal writing instruction accompanied a shift to teaching students to write from the social perspective.45 The social perspective integrates into writing processes an understanding of the purposes for which a particular document is written, the identities of its audiences, and the needs of those audiences.46 Part of the New Rhetoric evaluates students» work, in part, by how well it fulfills the audiences» needs.47 The difficulty for the first - year law student in this paradigm for learning analysis and writing processes is that she does not know the audience for her first legal writing projects, and she has no basis for comprehending the audience's needs.

More importantly, Reeve made an important step in skills training: he introduced formal moot courts as a part of the Litchfield curriculum, though on an optional basis.53 Initially, the students themselves conducted the moots, though by 1803, when James Gould was teaching at Litchfield, he presided over the arguments.54 The rules Gould imposed for the moots required not only oral argument, but also written argument, because the litigants had to produce writs and pleadings as well.55 Although a far cry from modern legal writing programs, these moot courts at least endeavored to provide some practical training in the production of persuasive writing.56

«Progress so far,» Goodman writes, «indicates that the current application of legal AI could well be part of an evolution that will be a game changer for legal services, not because it will change the basic premise of what lawyers do — or replace them all — but because it will create shifts in the value chain, and therefore change the legal business model in terms of legal services procurement, billing — and margins.»

This post was written by Rob Thomas, vice president of marketing for the Corporate segment of Thomson Reuters On the first day of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) Annual Meeting, one of the better attended early sessions was Exposing Legal Project Management Myths: The Truth Behind What Works and What Doesn't.

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[He] was always available; friendly and supportive; intensely interested in the case; available to prepare numerous quality legal memoranda which were well written, well reasoned, and well documented; creative but relevant in his approach and recommendations in dealing with very difficult issues; very timely with responses to my requests; able to prepare me for trial on all issues; and able to provide me with thorough, accurate, and winning case law and convincing legal arguments.»

The Litchfield Law School would flourish from 1784 until 1833, providing practical legal training to students from across the nation, and producing many illustrious graduates.57 Other private law schools cropped up in the 1790s as well.58 They comprised not only the first attempts to systematically teach the law, but also set the mold for contemporary legal education.59 The moot court model pioneered by these schools would become the preferred way to teach practical skills such as writing and rhetoric.

Contributing to the global discussion of how to best prepare law students for the practice of law, Ann Sinsheimer and David Herring's article, «Lawyers at Work: A Study of the Reading, Writing, and Communication Practices of Legal Professionals,» 11 provides «the results of a three - year ethnographic study of attorneys in the workplace.»

L. Rev. 349, 372 — 382 (2010)(describing best practices for legal research and writing courses).

A. Adapting the Elective Seminar for First - Year Students to Make it a Better «Fit» with the Connected Legal Writing Class

In addition to training externs and clerks, an upper - level class in judicial opinion writing provides an opportunity for students to hone their skills in writing for a particular audience, structuring and organizing, analyzing, and using rhetorical devices introduced during the first - year writing course through a different type of document.6 Such a course can cause students to look at the legal process from a different perspective and to become better critical readers and users of opinions by writing them.7 Thus, other goals of a judicial opinion writing course can include learning about the audiences of judicial opinions and the perspective judges bring to their opinion writing.

A number of well - written articles chronicle at least some of the history of legal writing in the law school curriculum.1 However, those articles were written with a different purpose in mind: the authors sought to employ history to show the pedigree of legal writing and argue for an equal place in the curriculum with doctrinal courses and an equal position for its teachers with other «case - book» faculty.2 Because of this purpose, they understandably focused a large part of their historical narrative on legal writing in the «modern law - school,» an entity that has existed only since the late 1800s.3 The articles paid considerably less attention to the era that preceded it, beyond brief mentions of the Inns of Court in England, apprenticeship in America, and the private law schools and early attempts at law teaching that preceded Langdell's introduction of the case method.4