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In contrast, only 57 percent of practicing attorneys who work at companies that hire recent law school graduates believe recent law school graduates are
effective legal writers.
But in that advice, for the
modern legal writer, lies the way to an even more effective and persuasive ethos.
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There are some academic and
otherwise legal writers who most judges will probably read sooner or later if they see that person's name on an article.
Strong legal writers and accomplished oral advocates, the attorneys in this group focus on crafting concise and persuasive briefs tailored to the wide range of applicable legal issues.
After an associate joins a firm, the firm should pair the associate with another lawyer — usually a senior associate or junior partner — who is an
experienced legal writer.
Many
legal writers don't know, and this explains why many are so poor at phrasing.
Standing in the Judge's Shoes: Exploring Techniques to
Help Legal Writers More Fully Address the Needs of Their Audience, 50 University of San Francisco Law Review Forum 479 (2016).
But careful
legal writers also avoid all sentence adverbs that express a personal sentiment or bias because how a lawyer feels about a factual or legal contention is irrelevant.
A professor of legal writing at Suffolk University Law School in Boston, Vinson has developed iWrite Legal, a free iPhone app designed to help
legal writers improve their writing skills.
Good
legal writers avoid sentence adverbs because they've learned that they often reveal a writer's sentiments or biases, which distract readers and paradoxically weaken the ideas the writer is trying to convey.
To the great relief of
many legal writers, the guide is now set entirely in Century Expanded.
However, if one digs deeper, one can find numerous instances in
which legal writers incorporate the lyrics of popular music into their writing in more creative ways.»
Based on my experience, as well as the anecdotes of others I know in the legal profession, there are lawyers who simply are innately
talented legal writers.
Then over at the latest issue of The Law Society Gazette, a feature on what it takes to be a
successful legal writer — i.e. one whose work is read by someone other than the client, the judge or the tenure committee.
Students confront the memoranda at the very beginning of the semester, before students have read the portions of their textbooks that would acquaint them with the analytical and writing doctrine that
guides legal writers in preparing such documents.
First, as Professors Alexa Chew and Katie Pryal write in The
Complete Legal Writer, reverse outlines can «help you brainstorm more material... because they can reveal to you where your document has missing parts and sections.»
Given the smoldering controversy over hopefully and thankfully,
careful legal writers avoid them altogether because even if they use them correctly, they will alienate or confuse certain readers.
For the final character trait, «intelligence,» Smith advises that
legal writers employ both substance and what he calls «highlighting.»
What Legal Writers Can Learn from the Experience of Non-Fiction Writers about the Limits of Storytelling, 16 Legal Writing: J....