For some jurists, even paying attention to the font size of a legal document can make their life—and decision-making ...

Whether you are writing a brief, a research memorandum or a client report, what you write, and how you write it, communicates your ideas to your audience. Are your sentences wordy and rambling, or ...

Writing is part of our daily lives - both professionally and personally. Whether it is a quick email to a colleague, a letter, or complex legal brief, effective communication matters. It can make a ...

Case briefing has a long history in legal studies as a tried-and-true method for reviewing and analyzing judicial opinions. Whether you’re a law student attempting to master case briefing, or a lawyer ...

The Association of Legal Writing Directors (ALWD) recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of its groundbreaking journal and recognized Professor Michael R. Smith as a prime architect of its creation.

Nov 8 (Reuters) - Law students who used artificial intelligence on several legal writing tasks were able to complete their assignments faster, but their work product wasn’t consistently better than ...

Ola M. Tucker discusses the importance of clear, plain-language compliance writing as a risk-management tool, particularly as ...

In an excellent piece, legal writing guru Ross Guberman compares the quality of the legal writing of Supreme Court contenders Ketanji Brown Jackson and Leondra Kruger and applies his respected ...

The School of Law is proud to announce that third-year law student Anna Glavaš has been selected as a recipient of the 2025 Law360 Distinguished Legal Writing Award, presented by the Burton Awards in ...

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Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. A new study finding that Irish High Court judges were influenced by the existence and specific language of ...