Sentences with phrase «opinions about legal writing»

To further that goal, the Institute publishes Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute, a peer - edited Journal that provides a forum for an exchange of scholarly ideas and opinions about legal writing.

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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?

As Legal Affairs wrote a couple of months after the Goodridge decision, «one of the strange things about judges is that even when they issue decisions that move the earth, they typically decline to explain how they arrived at their conclusions, thinking their written opinions should speak for themselves.»

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-...]

I wrote not long ago about Casetext, a new legal research site that provides free access to court opinions together with a platform for crowdsourcing references and annotations.

«[M] ost of what people take the time to write is legal analysis, law current events, opinions about these things, etc.» Again, he is talking about academics, but the point is true of a range of legal blogs.

The purpose of this annotated Bibliography is to assist professional legal writers in easily locating writing about judicial opinion writing and deciding what might be useful for them.

In addition to training externs and clerks, an upper - level class in judicial opinion writing provides an opportunity for students to hone their skills in writing for a particular audience, structuring and organizing, analyzing, and using rhetorical devices introduced during the first - year writing course through a different type of document.6 Such a course can cause students to look at the legal process from a different perspective and to become better critical readers and users of opinions by writing them.7 Thus, other goals of a judicial opinion writing course can include learning about the audiences of judicial opinions and the perspective judges bring to their opinion writing.

If a case is particularly difficult to follow, I often have a conversation with my students about what aspects of the writing made the opinion so challenging for the reader.37 We explore questions pertaining to the opinion's organization, its lack of a roadmap or other helpful contextual clues, its overly long paragraphs that contain multiple legal points, or its ridiculously long sentences with numerous embedded clauses.

1 To the extent that you are not a public figure and this is not a matter of public concern, even a negligent misrepresentation about what you actually wrote on Facebook, that is not a statement of opinion and is not accompanied by a reference allowing someone to confirm the accuracy of the statement at the source, could give rise to legal liability on the part of the person giving the tip.

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.

It was one year ago that I first wrote here about Casetext, the free legal research site that uses «crowdsourcing» to annotate court opinions.

An attorney of law firm may not include, on a website or other advertisement, a quotation or excerpt from a court opinion (oral or written) about the attorney's abilities or legal services.

As US law professor Ellie Margolis observes, «It is almost impossible to imagine a researcher finding relevant information, thinking about how it might affect the analysis in a piece of legal writing, be it opinion or brief, and then not using it to enhance the document.»

Heather has been a frequent presenter at legal industry conferences since 2001, a marketing opinion columnist with Lexpert since 2010, and LexisNexis since 2014, and writes about how to thrive in the changing legal market at heathersuttie.ca.

As someone who works with both lawyers and judges for a living, I was particularly struck by his harsh words about legal - writing courses for law students and opinion - writing training for judges.

Other popular legal technology blogs to consider include: 1) Future Lawyer, written by the always - knowledgable Florida litigator Rick Georges; 2) Technologist, a group blog; 3) Divorce Discourse, where attorney Lee Rosen shares technology and law practice management advice; 4) Law Practice Tips, a blog chock full of wisdom from Jim Calloway, an attorney and the Director of the Oklahoma Bar Association's Management Assistance Program; 5) iPhone JD, where attorney Jeff Richardson covers all things Apple - related, including iPhones and iPads; 6) Ride the Lightening, which covers a variety of interesting legal technology issues and is authored by lawyer Sharon Nelson, who offers her opinion on the effect of legal technology on the practice of law; and 7) the MyCase blog, where I regularly write about a host of legal tech issues.

The opinion I'm about to render has no legal value, could well be challenged, should not be relied upon and, please, I beg you, don't write letters.