Sentences with phrase «lawyers about legal writing»

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United States About Blog Energy Law Today is written by the Energy & Natural Resources lawyers of Fox Rothschild and offers legal updates on energy law.

Legal Writing Prof Blog About - Law Professor Blogs, LLC is the nation's only network of legal blogs edited primarily by law professors, deans, and lawLegal Writing Prof Blog About - Law Professor Blogs, LLC is the nation's only network of legal blogs edited primarily by law professors, deans, and lawlegal blogs edited primarily by law professors, deans, and lawyers.

Unfortunately, the podcast conflates the question of ethics with more basic concerns about quality marketing and thereby misses an opportunity to educate lawyers about the proper management of professional writing services for practice marketing — a perfectly legitimate method of building an online legal presence.

Last September, I wrote here about the private beta launch of BriefMine, a database of legal briefs that lawyers can mine for arguments and legal theories they can use in their own legal briefs.

For about $ 26 a month, Pre-Paid Legal lets customers consult an affiliate lawyer on legal matters like speeding tickets or writing a Legal lets customers consult an affiliate lawyer on legal matters like speeding tickets or writing a legal matters like speeding tickets or writing a will.

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.

This week on the legal - affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, I discuss the events in Texas with two guests: Betsy Branch, a family - law attorney with the Dallas firm of McCurley, Orsinger, McCurley, Nelson & Downing, who serves as attorney ad litem for several children in the West Texas case, and lawyer and social critic Wendy Kaminer, who has written about the civil liberties aspects of the case at the blogthefreeforall.net.

After I wrote earlier today on Legal Blog Watch about Law Day, I came across this Law Day essay by an old friend of mine, Tom Bolt, a lawyer in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Back in November 2009, I wrote about Matt Homann's use of a novel «You Decide Invoice» in his legal consulting practice that he suggested lawyers might want to experiment with.

Tiersma asserts that despite so many lawyers» claims about their legal writing's precision, some of its attributes are deliberately imprecise.

For «niche» blogs covering specialized areas of the law that aim primarily to, say, educate readers about new court decisions on a relevant topic, I don't see why a ghostwriter with a strong legal research and writing background can't do that effectively for a lawyer simply too busy to do all the spadework.

In October 2010, I wrote about the roll - out of Lexis Advance for Solos, the flat - rate legal research platform targeted at one - and two - lawyer firms.

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.

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-...]

I plan to blog my way through this experience as a way of reflecting upon and retaining what I'm learning — about legal research, writing and drafting, oral and written advocacy and what thinking like a lawyer means in an increasingly dynamic legal profession.

At Muse Communications, we have 30 years of experience writing for and about lawyers, with 20 of those years spent in legal PR and marketing.

After all, throughout undergraduate school — and perhaps even during masters» programs — that's the mindset: get «enough» sources to write a paper; then write «enough» pages to meet the minimum.50 Of course, experienced lawyers know that legal research isn't about getting some finite number of cases.

Attorney Reza Breakstone writes about the legal ramifications of self - driving cars in an article published in the Winter 2016 - 2017 edition of The Litigator, the official publication of the Capital City Trial Lawyers Association in Sacramento, California.

What We Still Don't Know About What Persuades Judges — And Some Ways We Might Find Out1 Over 25 years ago, in his foreword to the first volume of Legal Writing, Chris Rideout nailed it: legal writing as actually practiced by lawyers and judges nee dsto improve, «[b] ut more fundamental inquiry inLegal Writing, Chris Rideout nailed it: legal writing as actually practiced by lawyers and judges nee dsto improve, «[b] ut more fundamental inquiry Writing, Chris Rideout nailed it: legal writing as actually practiced by lawyers and judges nee dsto improve, «[b] ut more fundamental inquiry inlegal writing as actually practiced by lawyers and judges nee dsto improve, «[b] ut more fundamental inquiry writing as actually practiced by lawyers and judges nee dsto improve, «[b] ut more fundamental inquiry into...

Last fall, St. Louis personal injury lawyer Spencer Farris wrote a guest article about Apple's new tablet for our sister site, Legal Media Matters, titled, Apple iPad Review for Lawyers.

Young legal aid life: our latest column for Legal Voice on a day in the life of young legal aid lawyers was written by YLAL committee member Katherine Barnes about her experience acting in an appeal against a child's education, health and care plan in which the child's mother was unrepresented due to the withdrawal of legal aid for representation in education clegal aid life: our latest column for Legal Voice on a day in the life of young legal aid lawyers was written by YLAL committee member Katherine Barnes about her experience acting in an appeal against a child's education, health and care plan in which the child's mother was unrepresented due to the withdrawal of legal aid for representation in education cLegal Voice on a day in the life of young legal aid lawyers was written by YLAL committee member Katherine Barnes about her experience acting in an appeal against a child's education, health and care plan in which the child's mother was unrepresented due to the withdrawal of legal aid for representation in education clegal aid lawyers was written by YLAL committee member Katherine Barnes about her experience acting in an appeal against a child's education, health and care plan in which the child's mother was unrepresented due to the withdrawal of legal aid for representation in education clegal aid for representation in education cases.

Sure, other experienced lawyers have written books about how to draft legal agreements.

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.

Matthew Butterick's Typography for Lawyers is a book about legal typography that every person serious about good legal writing should own.

In a column last year, Laughing at Lawyers and the Law, I wrote about legal humor sites.

But like King's assessment, I've also heard anecdotes about lawyers who, no matter how much a firm works with them to improve their legal writing, never seem to grasp even elementary concepts of good legal writing.

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.

Don't get me wrong with what I'm about to write, because I applaud Miller and other online, virtual legal service pioneers for making divorce faster, cheaper and more accessible to the thousands of clients who otherwise could not afford the services of a lawyer.

The site is operated by Lexbe.com, a company that I've written about before for a similar site it operates, Litilaw, which provides access to legal articles written by lawyers for CLE programs or publication.

The new site is operated by Lexbe.com, a company that I've written about before for a similar site it operates, Litilaw, which provides access to legal articles written by lawyers for CLE programs or publication.

It is not about law, per se, although lawyers and the law seem to find their way in, but it is written by someone familiar to the legal profession, Tom Harrison, the longtime editor and publisher of Lawyers Weekly USA and now a Lawyers Weekly vice prelawyers and the law seem to find their way in, but it is written by someone familiar to the legal profession, Tom Harrison, the longtime editor and publisher of Lawyers Weekly USA and now a Lawyers Weekly vice preLawyers Weekly USA and now a Lawyers Weekly vice preLawyers Weekly vice president.

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.

Many lawyers are tired of hearing about legalese, and many still haven't embraced plain language in their own legal writing and speaking.

In the course of updating an article I wrote last year about legal - ethics resources on the Web, I came across Ethics and Lawyering Today, a monthly electronic newsletter highlighting important new cases, ethics opinions, and other developments, often with links to full text documents.

Something I wrote about in The National Law Journal a few years ago appears as a quote at the top of the page («A lawyer would be remiss not to check an expert through The Daubert Tracker»), and the five - star award from my book, The Essential Guide to the Best (and Worst) Legal Sites on the Web, appears to the right.

Martindale - Hubbell today added a new feature to its martindale.com Web site — a library of in - depth articles, written by lawyers, about a variety of legal topics.

So legal trends report is all about data and how important that is and I even wrote an article for the ABA about a year ago on how on — the number one thing that lawyers are not focusing on which is data and how it can impact their practice.

Diane Edelman and other innovative LRW scholars have argued that these current and anticipated changes in legal practice support the development of a more global focus in LRW instruction.39 If lawyers must be skilled at incorporating transnational legal matters into their work, they must also be able to engage in research on foreign and international legal issues, to incorporate the results of that research into their legal reasoning, and to communicate effectively in writing about transnational legal questions.

«The obligation to give prior notification would not have been restricted to stories about the sexual behaviour of people in the public eye... It would have been ruthlessly exploited by the well - known and, their PR advisers and their lawyers, to control, by legal action and threats of subjecting the media to enormous legal costs, what was written and broadcast about them.»

Simon Fodden of the the Slaw.ca blog wrote earlier this week about a U.K. lawyer, Nicholas Jervis, who not only scoffs at your worry - wart Yankee blog disclaimers, but (a) will answer legal questions for free over the Internet and (b) will do it in 140 characters or less on his Twitter feed (@thelegaloracle).

In our latest regular column for Legal Action magazine, YLAL co-chairs Ollie and Rachel wrote about the common ground between legal aid lawyers, teachers and doctors, all professions providing a public service which have opposed damaging cuts and reforms imposed by the government in recent yLegal Action magazine, YLAL co-chairs Ollie and Rachel wrote about the common ground between legal aid lawyers, teachers and doctors, all professions providing a public service which have opposed damaging cuts and reforms imposed by the government in recent ylegal aid lawyers, teachers and doctors, all professions providing a public service which have opposed damaging cuts and reforms imposed by the government in recent years.

Would I care most about their experience as an attorney, experience and results handling similar types of cases, firm's reputation in the legal community, do they teach other lawyers that area of law, other achievements, perhaps writing relevant articles or «the book» in the field of law?

openDemocracy published this article about how the residence test for legal aid would have denied justice to some of the most vulnerable in society and, finally, YLAL committee member Heather Thomas wrote for Legal Voice about a day in her life as a legal aid family lalegal aid would have denied justice to some of the most vulnerable in society and, finally, YLAL committee member Heather Thomas wrote for Legal Voice about a day in her life as a legal aid family laLegal Voice about a day in her life as a legal aid family lalegal aid family lawyer.

I am a lawyer and consultant who has been writing and speaking about the Internet, social media and legal technology for nearly 20 years.

In January, I wrote here about MyPocketAttorney, a website that lets lawyers build their own smartphone apps using templates designed for law offices and legal professionals.

Further, given the vicious spiral that self - representation can lead to, which I've also written about previously, one wonders whether increasing the legal aid limits to provide more people with lawyers would in fact increase the rate of settlement, reduce the number of trials and result in a net savings to the justice system as whole.

From the very first newsletter to the most recently launched blog, law firms have published content in order to increase market awareness, principally by informing clients about legal developments and promoting the expertise of lawyers through their written work.

The University of Alabama School of Law is now taking entries for the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction, which annually honors fiction writing about lawyers» role in society,...

Over the past few months, blogger Bob Ambrogi has written a couple of posts — both here and on his own blog — about the «Beautiful Lawyers» calendar featuring Massachusetts attorneys put together by a Boston law firm to help benefit Greater Boston Legal Services.