The prevalence of shorter, simpler emails is also consistent with my recent legal experience as a litigation associate in a large law firm before starting to teach legal writing full - time — an experience I have drawn on in trying to design realistic assignments.59 The emails I wrote often dealt with relatively straightforward substantive matters, procedural questions surrounding litigation, or some combination of the two,
such as the steps
for having an appellate court relinquish
jurisdiction to correct a scrivener's
error in a lower - court judgment or the timeline
for responding to an in rem civil forfeiture action.