Thanks to my membership in Scribes - The American Society of Legal Writers, I learned about a free webinar entitled Ethics and Professionalism in Legal Writing: Brief Writing and Writing for Litigation.
The webinar was presented by Stetson University College of Law. The panelists are Kirsten Davis, Associate Professor of Law and Director of Legal […]

Update: I just found out that Bryan Garner will also be attending the luncheon and signing books. This is quite exciting for legal writing nerds like me!

Update: Congratulations to contest winner Kathleen St. Onge of Halloran & Sage LLP in Hartford, Connecticut. Thanks to everyone who entered the contest!

As you may know, Supreme […]

I’ve always been a grammar stickler; heck, I have fond memories of diagramming sentences in 10th grade English class. Now, thanks to my co-blogger, Susan, I’ve found my soulmate (don’t tell my husband!): Grammar Girl.
Grammar Girl (a/k/a Mignon Forgarty) is a freelance technical writer and editor who writes a blog and produces a podcast about—you […]

I have long wondered how you can avoid long sections of white space in text when you include a URL.  Word views the URL as one word and moves the entire URL to the next line, leaving the preceding line with too much blank space.  Eugene Volokh has a couple of suggestions to fix this.  […]

For legal writing content that’s a little more challenging than the articles in Thomson West’s Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing, check out the Legal Writing Journal over at the Social Science Research Network. (To find this specific journal, go to http://www.ssrn.com/lsn/index.html and click on “subject matter journals” in the left sidebar). Like Perspectives, […]

I know, I know: most lawyers don’t view Thomson West as a benefactor to the legal profession. Mention West to a lawyer, and you’re likely to get an earful about how the company messed up a Westlaw bill once again, or how it insists on charging for paper updates for volumes that have long since […]