Inside Baseball and Orwell’s 6 Rules for Clear Writing
“Inside baseball” refers to using jargon, specialized knowledge, acronyms, first names instead of full names, or other such things when speaking and writing. Using shorthand of this sort is simply more efficient when among friends, colleagues, or...
11 Writing Blogs I Follow
A reader recently asked: You mentioned in your review of Point Made that there are a number of legal writing blogs you follow: what legal writing blogs do you follow? I thought I’d put it up for everyone to see. Note, I follow a number of writing blogs...
Quality Not Quanitity
Scott Greenfield has a post today entitled Eyeballs Without Purpose. An excerpt: I had a nice chat the other day with a young lawyer who has a very popular legal website. His site is a business, intended for profit and designed to maximize the number of eyeballs its...
Two Strategies for Effective Written Advocacy
The Legal writing Prof Blog has mention of a short article in The Missouri Bar’s newsletter, Precedent, on persuasive writing for generalist judges. Judges in general jurisdiction courts also may not initially be as familiar as counsel with the substantive law...Be Temperate
In the last post I noted that lawyers should avoid hyperbole at all costs. But what happens when opposing counsel resorts to hyperbole and bombastic prose in their brief? Be temperate. Do not lash out at opposing counsel in your own brief. Do not waste words pointing...Sidebar
