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Entries from August 2008

ABA Formal Op. 08-451 Good News for US-based Independent Contract Lawyers and Hiring Attorneys

August 28th, 2008 · 5 Comments


On Monday, the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility released Formal Op. 08-451, entitled Lawyer’s Obligations When Outsourcing Legal and Nonlegal Support Services. Although press coverage of the opinion has focused on its impact on the overseas legal outsourcing industry and the reaction here in the United States from contract lawyers [...]

Tags: Contract Lawyering · Practice Management

Scalia’s Remarks About Legal Writing

August 14th, 2008 · 3 Comments


Last Saturday, Scribes-The American Society of Legal Writers presented Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia with a lifetime-achievement Award for legal writing. I attended the luncheon to soak up legal writing tips from the man legal writing guru Bryan Clark introduced as “the greatest living legal writer,” whose prose is characterized by “clarity, lucidity and bold [...]

Tags: Legal Writing