Sentences with phrase «legal writing efforts»

Did you receive advice that might be worth implementing in all of your legal writing efforts or was this advice particular to one partner?

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In September 2017, Fan Yifei, deputy governor of the PBoC, wrote that PBoC efforts to supervise private cryptocurrency and develop digital legal tender were underway.

With lethal - injection euthanasia now legal throughout Canada, predictable efforts are under way to permit patients to create binding written orders to have themselves killed if they lose mental capacity.

Observer wrote on Sunday, October 2, 2011 at 2:32 pm, stating, «Mark, Yep, keep ignoring what the Bible says about the rich so that more effort can be made by Christians to trash others like gays or doctors performing legal operations.»

Chris has his own blog, as he describes below, and I asked him if he would be willing to share here his efforts to try to improve this situation in his Iowa City school district, where he is now the parent of three children and teaches legal writing and analysis at the University of Iowa College of Law (but the opinions he expresses here are entirely his own).

Initially, my efforts were focused on learning about the medical writing industry; defining the parameters of the company and developing a business plan; identifying government regulations and legal considerations; locating sources of professional, financial, and emotional support; finding other individuals with complementary skills and expertise (graphic designers, photographers, translators) that could work under the umbrella of my company as needed; and learning new skills or improving existing ones.

But, Dranias wrote, «If there is no legal theory that can justify BBATF's position, I personally do believe it would be morally wrong to propagate it — especially to the exclusion of other efforts.

There is also a growing body of literature which suggests that the aggressive efforts by climate deniers have adversely affected the communication and direction of climate research (Brysse, Oreskes, O'Reilly, & Oppenheimer, 2013; Freudenburg & Muselli, 2010; Lewandowsky, Oreskes, Risbey, Newell, & Smithson, 2013), and allegations of defamation have led to the re-examination of one of the first author's papers to eliminate legal risks that is ongoing at the time of this writing (Lewandowsky, Cook, et al., 2013).

«But it is unusual that after seven years all legal efforts are so narrowly focused, especially since Avila told lawmakers when he testified for the bill in 2002 that he expected other attorneys would take on cases because of favorable incentives written into the measure.»

245 Gallacher's findings suggest «that the trend is actually moving away from plainer writing, even at a time when legal - writing teachers» efforts should be producing the opposite effect.»

While each editor - in - chief stresses that the publication of each volume was very much a collaborative effort, everyone in the field owes a particular debt to those individuals who have taken the helm of Legal Writing over the years and thereby advanced this new and continually developing discipline.

The bland, repetitive, and often formulaic cadences of legal writing in general, and judicial writing in particular, can be explained in large part by a commitment to the neutral and consistent application of the law... [T] he effort to demonstrate that similar cases are being treated alike often finds its rhetorical manifestation in a penchant for analyses that have a déja lu quality — usually because the words have been read before.

Law schools began to see the value of legal writing faculty who dedicated their efforts to and studied legal writing.

Sperling and Shapcott's and Rosen's recommendations for fostering a growth mindset in law schools focus primarily on communicating a growth mindset message to law students — be it from professors who have examined their own mindsets and thereby shifted their expectations and language; 188 through orientation programs that include growth - oriented messages from administrators, professors and guest speakers; 189 by framing assignments and evaluation in terms of process; 190 by professors who teach legal writing using their expertise in narrative to tell stories that show that legal writing and analysis skills are learned through effort and persistence; 191 by professors and administrators «communicat [ing] that law school has academic value beyond the first year» and «encourag [ing] students to view rankings and large firm job placements as indicative of mastery that can be obtained through learning and hard work»; 192 or, by providing growth mindset student mentors for incoming students.193

As I am sure is true for many legal writing scholars, the Journal helped me find my voice, provided welcome validation, and conferred value on my scholarly effort.

Joseph Williams hinted at this in the inaugural volume of this Journal.248 There, Williams was writing about law students and their struggle to master the conventions of legal prose, their effort to mature as a legal writer.

Many of the students in the Cohen study, like many first - year legal writing students, remarked that they were impressed by the rigor of the criticism and that seldom in their college careers had a teacher or professor taken their efforts so seriously.245 Consistent with this, the researchers noted that many effective teachers and programs «do not hesitate to call attention to the gap between students» current performance and the level that they could achieve with unstinting effort.»

Connecting the dots between his recent post on Cisco's efforts to work with GMC and Microsoft to cut legal costs, Friedmann writes:

The method of exploring how legal blogs work is worth the effort for scholars seeking to further examine the blogging genre, for professors planning to teach blogging or other forms of public legal writing, and for law students, lawyers, and law professors who want to write.

Part of gaining the respect and attention of students and other faculty has been to grade the course in the same manner as other courses.168 The thought has been that students will not put the same effort or see the same value in a course that is not as significant in the doling out of rewards and that «[n] on - legal writing faculty may see legal writing as less substantial than the doctrinal courses.»

It took a long time and enormous effort to get to this place.54 In the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, legal writing courses «remained marginal and peripheral» and the faculty teaching it were treated differently from «regular faculty.»

Law school deans and faculties have come to recognize that legal writing courses provide the opportunity for teaching essential skills that are unlikely to be taught nearly as well elsewhere in the law school curriculum, that there is an essential core content to an excellent legal writing program, and that effective teaching of that content requires professional legal writing faculty who regularly devote substantial portions of their effort to teaching legal writing, research, and analysis.7

Many of today's law school graduates lack the practical skills that they need to thrive as practicing lawyers.1 As a result, it is incumbent on law schools — and, specifically, legal writing programs — to redouble their efforts to prepare law students for the realities of modern legal practice.2 And perhaps no feature of modern legal practice has been more striking than the «meteoric rise of email as a means of professional communication.»

The journal, for which we hoped wide readership within the legal writing community, seemed a good place to publish her results.11 Jill's efforts not only gave us a synoptic view of what we were all doing, but also pointed to the important work that remained to be done.

Newman's students wrote that she «embodies the qualities sought in the recipient of the Shanara Gilbert Award» and her colleagues at Miami Law noted her «extraordinary efforts and contributions to clinical legal education, service, and justice.»

But that is really the whole point of plain English in legal writing: figure out what you are trying to say and then use the most appropriate wording — don't be lazy and simply use «and / or» when, without too much effort, you can derive better wording.

Much has been written about LegalZoom and the impact it will have on lawyers — especially solos and small firms — and with an extra $ 120m in the bank the company will be able to accelerate its efforts to reshape the legal services landscape.

Christelle Vaval, Omar Ha - Redeye, Marjorie Florestal, Hope Lewis (IntLawGrrls blog), and others have written on legal issues faced by Haitians and efforts to help, especially in the wake of the 2010 earthquake.

The FTC is now examining the legal rights of patent trolls, in an effort to clean up patent law written in the dark ages.

(b) Collaborative law is a procedure in which the parties and their counsel agree in writing to use their best efforts and make a good faith attempt to resolve their dissolution of marriage dispute on an agreed basis without resorting to judicial intervention except to have the court approve the settlement agreement, make the legal pronouncements, and sign the orders required by law to effectuate the agreement of the parties as the court determines appropriate.

Collaborative Divorce is a procedure in which the parties and their counsel agree in writing to use their best efforts and make a good faith attempt to resolve their dissolution of marriage disputes on an agreed basis without resorting to judicial intervention except to have the court approve the settlement agreement, make the legal pronouncements, and sign the orders required by law to effectuate the agreement of the parties as the court determines appropriate.

Richards, in written testimony, called the videos «a deliberate and systematic effort by (CMP Director) David Daleiden and other opponents of safe and legal abortion to infiltrate our health centers, try to entrap our staff into potentially illegal conduct, and create discredited, doctored videos designed to smear Planned Parenthood.»

I often explain to a buyer that almost every time, I get paid from the sale proceeds of the home but that occasionally, some people refuse for one reason or another to pay a commission or to pay an amount I expect to be paid or that Is not commensurate with my efforts to obtain a sale on a home for my buyers that is acceptable to the buyer, to protect the buyer by writing a well thought out contract where the buyer does not need to worry about legalities because I have the years of experience behind me and my Brokerage accepts legal liability for the contract.

«The zeal with which Federal officials carried out policies of discrimination in the early days of the Government's housing effort has not been matched by a similar enthusiasm in carrying out their current legal mandate of equal housing opportunity,» the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights wrote in its assessment of the fifth anniversary of the Fair Housing Act.