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So, How Important is Legal Writing, Anyway?
Pretty darn important. Thanks to Greg Lambert of the Three Geeks and a Law Blog, for his post It Seems That Judges Want More In Your Complaints Than Just Your Complaining , reporting two cases thrown...
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Creating Tables of Authority, TOC
Duke Law School’s Goodson Blog has a handy table with instructions on how to create a table of authorities and table of contents for briefs for various versions of Word and other wordprocessing...
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Three Ways to Improve Your Briefs
If you want some good practical advice on improving your briefs, read this great short article, Raoul G. Cantero, “Three Simple Ways to Improve Your Briefs.” , 85 Florida Bar Journal 31 (Feb. 2011)....
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Write as Badly as You Can! (if you want to lose…)
Take a look at Gerald Lebovits’ ten rules for poor legal writing, in Writing Bad Briefs: How to Lose a Case in 100 Pages or More,* then reverse them if you indeed would like some success. Tongue in...
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New Resource for Reference Management Comparison
Anyone interested in using reference management tools should check out the comparison guides recently posted by Georgetown Law Library. From its Citation Tools page, you can connect to a Detailed...
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13 Steps of Successful Academic Legal Research
Writing a paper this semester? For a clear and helpful explanation of the academic paper writing process, see Agustin Parise, The 13 Steps of Successful Academic Legal Research, 38 Int’l J. of Legal...
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Tools To Manage Your Research
Are you in the thick of research for a class paper or journal article? Running out of post-it notes trying to keep everything organized? Check out the Law Library’s Reference Management Software page...
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Your Writing can be More Concise, Persuasive and Powerful
Your summer job may require you to draft briefs and pleadings, transactional documents and memos. Get some practical tips on how to improve your writing from these American Bar Association...
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