Law Library of Congress Archiving Blawgs
Maybe others were aware of this, but I was not. Starting in 2007, the Law Library of Congress began archiving blawgs: The collection has grown to more than one hundred items covering a broad cross section of legal topics. Blawgs can also be retrieved by...
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...What Judges Think of Lawyers – From Judge Posner
Back in 2008, Judge Richard A. Posner and Professor Albert H. Yoon sent out a survey to a number of judges seeking to determine how lawyers are perceived by the judiciary. Recently, they published their findings in the Stanford Law Review. The abstract: Studying the...9 Failings of Legal Writing (& 4 Recommendations to Fix Them)
“Lawyers have two common failings. One is that they do not write well, and the other is that they think they do.” This line is from Wayne Schiess’s (of Legalwriting.net) “Legal Writing Is Not What It Should Be.” It focuses on producing better legal...Sidebar
