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• Legal Writing in Plain English as Culture War

  
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  Who’a afraid of legal writing in plain English ? A lot of lawyers. Since I started writing about legal writing, I’ve been amazed at how entrenched so many lawyers seem to be against the notion that legal writing should be as easy to understand as possible to the widest audience possible. But that notion seems ...
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• Daily Writing Sample: When There’s No Fifth Leg to Stand On

  
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  "Merely calling someone a copyright owner does not make it so," the Ninth Circuit ruled Thursday, invoking the words of the 16th president of the United States.
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• Garner’s Tips on Editing Sentences

  
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  One of my students, Drew Walgreen, recommended this article by Bryan A. Garner, published originally in the Michigan Bar Journal.  Bryan Garner , if you haven’t already heard, is a noted legal writing specialist and author who has written books such as Legal Writing in Plain English .  This article focuses on ...
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• Essay On Violation Against Women

  
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  I need an essay on Violation against women of 2 pages and i need it now… Required Skills: Legal, Writing Go to Source
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• Writing Deskbook for Administrative Law Judges: An Introduction.

  
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  List Price: $ 25.00 Last checked best price : Kindly click the buy button to get latest prices Thank you for visiting AttorneyNext. Support us by buying products through our links. Writing Deskbook for Administrative Judges: An Introduction provides administrative judges (and their supervisors) with general guidelines ...
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• Letters: Magical Thinking

  
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• Law prof Chemerinsky offers a syllabus on how the high court can polish its publicity

  
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• Law prof Chemerinsky offers a syllabus on how the high court can polish its publicity

  
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• For the Word Lovers: A look at linguistic phenomena

  
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• Keats and the Lawyer

  
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  A few months ago, I pulled the Norton Anthology of English Literature from my bookshelf—an old friend to read on a cold winter day. The page fell open to Keats, and a reference to Richard Woodhouse, barrister and friend of Keats, caught my eye. John Keats (1795-1821) was an English Romantic poet. Keats wrote for ...
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• ADHD and Keeping Time in Practice

  
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  Each spring semester, when my first-year writing students have moved from objective writing from pre-selected authorities to persuasive writing and doing their own research, I have them keep track of their time. In law practice, time is money.  Even if a lawyer does not bill her hours to a client, she is likely still ...
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• Celebrating Poetry

  
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  April is National Poetry Month , which may be Marquette University President Scott R. Pilarz, S.J.’s favorite month .  And for good reason.  Poetry can sometimes say what we can’t; it can touch our hearts and our souls with its inspiration, its longing, its joy, and its sadness. Last year, on this blog, ...
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• Use 5-Cent Words for 10-Dollar Ideas

  
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  Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas isn’t a fan of big words in judicial opinions. The Atlantic recently quoted him as saying that he tries to write opinions so that non-lawyers can understand them: [W]e write [opinions] so that they are accessible to regular people. That doesn’t mean that there’s no ...
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• Law School sponsors first annual Beck Awards, presented by the David J. Beck Center for Legal Research, Writing, and Appellate Advocacy

  
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  On April 23, 2013, the University of Texas School of Law hosted the first annual Beck Awards at a luncheon recognizing the work of the new David J. Beck Center for Legal Research, Writing, and Appellate Advocacy. The Beck Center was launched in the spring of 2012 with support from David J. Beck, ’65, life trustee of ...
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• What is The Best Option for Writers Working on a Freelance Basis?

  
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  If you’re a writer completing assignments on a freelance basis, it can be difficult to know how best to operate. When it comes to handling contracts and money, it’s unlikely this is your area of expertise and it can be extremely daunting. Fortunately, I have come across a couple of options that can help to ...
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• Attorney: "The Training I Recieved at Hustler Was Extremely Helpful" in Law School

  
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  Susannah Breslin, who is a contributor at Forbes.com, has posted her interview with Dan Kapelovitz, who is currently a criminal-law attorney but previously worked at Hustler  magazine. See " How A Porn Magazine Editor Became A Criminal Law Attorney ," Forbes.com  (Apr. 17, 2003). According to this, that ...
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• Three Grammar Rules to Forget (Because They’re Wrong)

  
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  Writing well is difficult. It requires a lot of time and patience. And it’s made more difficult when one has to ignore one’s earliest teaching on the subject. I fondly recall my elementary school teachers. Well, most of them. And it’s true that a lot of rules they taught me (say please and thank you, wait ...
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• Writing Shorter Legal Documents: Strategies for Faster and Better Editing

  
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  List Price: $ 59.95 Last checked best price : Kindly click the buy button to get latest prices Thank you for visiting AttorneyNext. Support us by buying products through our links. When you’re on a deadline with the court and are over the maximum word count in your document, this book provides the fast, easy ... ...
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• Storytime: How Lawyers Can Use Narrative Techniques in Brief Writing

  
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  Once upon a time, lawyers, bred on a steady diet of the old, dense, and turgid legal opinions that law students today still must trudge through as some sort of right of passage, relied purely on logic to advocate for their clients. But, ever since legal writing expert Bryan Garner began urging lawyers to write in ...
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• The Saga of Dickie Scruggs

  
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  Blawgletter admires good writing, no matter whence it comes. But we like it better when a judge produces it. Last week, Fifth Circuit Judge  Jacques Wiener did a fine piece of work. It kind of sings. And it tells the on-going tale of Dickie Scruggs, the rich lawyer who flew too close to the sun. We think youll ...
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