Sentences with phrase «good legal writing in»

In a 2002 article in the Student Lawyer, which he later adapted for a chapter in Garner on Language and Writing, Garner stressed the importance of teaching good legal writing in law school.

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Republicans are also considering alternate write - in candidates, as well as riskier legal tactics to remove Moore from the ballot.

Examples of these human marks include the fact that the Bible was written in Hebrew and Greek, that the Old Testament world was a world of temples, priests and sacrifice, that Israel as well as the surrounding nations has prophets that mediated divine will to them, that Israel was ruled by kings, that Israel's legal system shares striking similarities with those of surrounding nations, that the creation narrative and the story of Noah resemble other ancient stories of the time, that the writers of Scripture operated within the paradigm of ancient cosmology, etc..

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 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.

In the China Study, Dr. T. Collin Campbell writes that «most, but not all, of the confusion about nutrition is created in legal, fully disclosed ways and is disseminated by unsuspecting, well - intentioned people, whether they are researchers, politicians or journalists.&raquIn the China Study, Dr. T. Collin Campbell writes that «most, but not all, of the confusion about nutrition is created in legal, fully disclosed ways and is disseminated by unsuspecting, well - intentioned people, whether they are researchers, politicians or journalists.&raquin legal, fully disclosed ways and is disseminated by unsuspecting, well - intentioned people, whether they are researchers, politicians or journalists.»

The Best Legal Writing blogs from thousands of top Legal blogs in our index using search and social metrics.

The Best Legal Writing blogs from thousands of top Legal blogs in our index using search and social metrics.

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.

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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

She thinks the best decision she and her husband made when they moved to Gainesville, Florida, was not to own a television.She wrote the first drafts of her beautifully chiaroscuro second novel Arcadia in notebooks and on legal pads before reluctantly turning on...

And Simon Pulman, one of my favorite commentators on transmedial issues in New York, wrote well to the point following StoryWorld's legal panel, in Storyworld: Practical Legal Consideralegal panel, in Storyworld: Practical Legal ConsideraLegal Considerations

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.

============================== In my view, these were my best posts written between November 2014 and January 2015: Stay Calm Political changes rarely create the policy / legal changes that people fe...

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The Guatemalan Claim, at this writing, stands in the way of our legal independence and complicates our politics, but we Belizeans have never been more prosperous, better educated or more conscious of our National identity, our rights and our duties.

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.

That, in turn, would require law schools to re-examine how well they teach legal research and writing.

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.

I have written here before that I believe Justia has become one of the best free legal - research sites on the Web, so this is one more feather in its cap.

I've written in the past on the use of RSS in law firms (see here and here), and how those in the legal industry can be better consumers of information using this technology.

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.

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-..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-..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-...]

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 of laIn 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 lain one place — making it easier for readers to find the best writing about all areas of law.

Prosecutor Mark Pryor blogs about cases «in the same way I tell my kids,» he writes, «leaving out analysis, legal discussion, names, dates and, well, facts.»

Plus, it's in your best interest to get everything in writing if you need to take further legal action down the road.

Take it from someone who spent a dozen years in legal journalism: writing good headlines is hard.

I explained to the students that they've just spent three years in one of the worst places to learn how to write well — law school — and that they now have to start unlearning all the bad writing habits that legal education creates.

As Judge Posner wrote in an opinion this week, the word «choate» is a «barbarism» that, while «fairly well ensconced in the legal vocabulary,» shall not be used in his court as it is «not only a sign of ignorance but also a source of confusion.»

Representatives of the legal profession would do well to rein in their tendency to populate their websites with abstruse and obtuse terminology, which too often results in written fusillades that are at once unclear and prolix.

Her written work on legal issues — in trial and appellate courts — is considered to be some of the best in the nation.

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 best lawyer - authored content is immediately useful to the client — it provides step - by - step instructions or practical advice on what happens in the «real world» of legal process, it's written in simple language, and offers real value.

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.»

In fact, the Carnegie Report's recommendation to this effect acknowledges that it is «building on the work already underway in several law schools...» 49 And based on these experiences, a robust literature has developed extolling the virtues of integrating writing with doctrine.50 In reviewing this literature, a number of themes emerge: integration sends the right institutional message to students about the importance of writing in their legal careers and about the relationships between doctrine, analysis, and writing; 51 there is a strong connection between writing and thinking; 52 and writing is an integral part of the learning process.53 Integrating doctrine and writing therefore sends an explicit message that law students do not write in a vacuum, they always write about some legal doctrine, and they learn that doctrine better when they analyze it fully enough to be able to write about iIn fact, the Carnegie Report's recommendation to this effect acknowledges that it is «building on the work already underway in several law schools...» 49 And based on these experiences, a robust literature has developed extolling the virtues of integrating writing with doctrine.50 In reviewing this literature, a number of themes emerge: integration sends the right institutional message to students about the importance of writing in their legal careers and about the relationships between doctrine, analysis, and writing; 51 there is a strong connection between writing and thinking; 52 and writing is an integral part of the learning process.53 Integrating doctrine and writing therefore sends an explicit message that law students do not write in a vacuum, they always write about some legal doctrine, and they learn that doctrine better when they analyze it fully enough to be able to write about iin several law schools...» 49 And based on these experiences, a robust literature has developed extolling the virtues of integrating writing with doctrine.50 In reviewing this literature, a number of themes emerge: integration sends the right institutional message to students about the importance of writing in their legal careers and about the relationships between doctrine, analysis, and writing; 51 there is a strong connection between writing and thinking; 52 and writing is an integral part of the learning process.53 Integrating doctrine and writing therefore sends an explicit message that law students do not write in a vacuum, they always write about some legal doctrine, and they learn that doctrine better when they analyze it fully enough to be able to write about iIn reviewing this literature, a number of themes emerge: integration sends the right institutional message to students about the importance of writing in their legal careers and about the relationships between doctrine, analysis, and writing; 51 there is a strong connection between writing and thinking; 52 and writing is an integral part of the learning process.53 Integrating doctrine and writing therefore sends an explicit message that law students do not write in a vacuum, they always write about some legal doctrine, and they learn that doctrine better when they analyze it fully enough to be able to write about iin their legal careers and about the relationships between doctrine, analysis, and writing; 51 there is a strong connection between writing and thinking; 52 and writing is an integral part of the learning process.53 Integrating doctrine and writing therefore sends an explicit message that law students do not write in a vacuum, they always write about some legal doctrine, and they learn that doctrine better when they analyze it fully enough to be able to write about iin a vacuum, they always write about some legal doctrine, and they learn that doctrine better when they analyze it fully enough to be able to write about it.