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 […]

Here’s a snippet of the remarks Justice Scalia made at the August 9 Scribes luncheon, when he received a lifetime-achievement Award for legal writing:

 
For a more in-depth summary of Scalia’s remarks, see my previous post on the subject.

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 […]

SEC Chairman Christopher Cox addressed the 2007 Corporate Counsel Institute this week and emphasized the SEC’s commitment to the use of plain English. As I have mentioned previously in this blog, the SEC has been a long-time champion of plain English and its website includes a helpful “Plain English Handbook.”
According to Cox, the SEC […]

If you read legal blogs at all, you have probably seen the recent posts about citations to Wikipedia in judicial opinions and law journal articles.   Daniel J. Solove  at Concurring Opinions asks the next question – when is citation to Wikipedia appropriate?  He gives ten examples of citations to Wikipedia and asks for comments on […]