Sentences with phrase «read good legal writing»

In the meantime, anybody else waiting for that apocalypse who wants to read good legal writing — clear, concise, form and content, often with humour — should pick up anything by Pierre Schlag of the University of Colorado Law School.

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Some of it is writing only a legal beagle could follow, but surprisingly long sections read like a novel or a well - written Harvard Business -LSB-...]

Thinking about what non-legal writing you find persuasive and a joy to read can help you be a better legal writer.

Contributing to the global discussion of how to best prepare law students for the practice of law, Ann Sinsheimer and David Herring's article, «Lawyers at Work: A Study of the Reading, Writing, and Communication Practices of Legal Professionals,» 11 provides «the results of a three - year ethnographic study of attorneys in the workplace.»

To learn more about the legal barriers that exist in the digital health space, as well as the need for and value of a proper and thorough compliance program, read «The Law of Digital Health,» written by members of the McDermott Will & Emery Digital Health Team.

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.

As authority, Garner quotes Seventh Circuit Judge Frank Easterbrook's exhortation to emerging legal writers that they dump the lawbooks and start reading well - written periodicals:

Those who fail to recognise this will simply end up bitter and left behind; time would be better spent reading some of the writing that is displayed quite clearly on the wall, and adjusting their businesses to take advantage of the new legal landscape instead of fighting a battle that both financially and intellectually they are ill - placed to win.

But the fact that it's wise of a reader to read it all, or that it makes a good heuristic for book writing to imagine such a wise reader, shouldn't be confused with how readers really behave, especially legal readers in a hurry.

In response, I'll second Spencer's encouragement that «[g] iven the talent and energy among legal writing faculty, we are well positioned to study what lawyers write, and the lawyers who read and write it.»

Writing this column takes me on an awesome roller - coaster ride every week through the numerous offerings of the talented mix of ALM affiliate bloggers and gives me an excuse to track trends in the legal profession, keep current on law - related news and read a good share of the Supreme Court cases that issue each term.

Blawgfather Howard Bashman, perhaps the best - read legal blogger on earth next to Instapundit, opened day two of Roberts» confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court by relinking his 2003 write - up on Roberts» confirmation hearings for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

In that vein, I read a good summary of 10 big predictions for the legal industry, written by Zach Warren, the editor in chief of Legaltech News.

Jim's article, «Teaching Lawyers to Revise for the Real World: A Role for Reader Protocols,» 7 offered an important contribution, not only because it focused specifically on how judges read and understand briefs, but also because it implicitly nudged us away from teaching platitudes about good legal writing and more toward looking at how real readers respond to the principles of writing that we commonly teach.

Recent postings about legal education have recalled something I used to teach students in legal writing seminars, but gave up because I couldn't really find any good class readings on the subject — the use of email as a form of legal writing.

Tonight, I want to thank Diana Skaggs, at the [KY] Divorce Law Journal, for her generous write - up on this post in Blawg Review # 101 — and, especially, for sharing the most kind words of Prof. Alan Childress, who had the best reaction I could have desired from a professor of Professional Responsibility: «It will be required reading for every legal ethics class I teach.»