Mastering Legal Writing: Elevate Your Written Advocacy – Speaking of Litigation Video Podcast
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 465: Improving Your Legal Writing Skills (w/Luiz Arroyo)
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 463: Quick Tips -- Organizing Your LRW Assignments
Tips for Persuasive Legal Writing | Luther Munford | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 433: Career Tips from a BigLaw Partner (w/Bryan Nese)
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 429: Legal Research and Writing in the Workplace (Part 2)
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 409: Start Law School Right -- Legal Research and Writing
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 379: Quick Tips -- Bluebooking Like a Pro
Reporting on the U.S. Supreme Court | Greg Stohr | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Legal Writing for the New Generation | Chad Baruch | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 304: Introduction to the Bluebook
Handling the Texas Supreme Court’s Public Information | Osler McCarthy | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Leveraging Technology to Improve Legal Writing | Ross Guberman | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Psycholinguistics and Legal Writing | Judge Robert Bacharach | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 255: The Dos and Don'ts of Writing Samples (w/Sadie Jones)
The Secret to Better Legal Writing
Bryan Garner Shares His Experience Writing 'Reading Law' with Justice Scalia
In the legal world, the effectiveness of your writing can make or break your case. In this episode of Speaking of Litigation, Epstein Becker Green attorneys Max Cadmus, Tom Kane, and Ed Yennock delve into the critical...more
Yesterday's post concerned the exemption from the qualification requirement of the California Corporate Securities Law for most changes in the rights, preferences, privileges, or restrictions of outstanding securities found...more
Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! In this episode, together with Luiz Arroyo - one of our law school and bar exam tutors - we highlight the critical role of legal writing in a lawyer's career and provide tips...more
Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! Today, we're discussing the importance and challenges of first-year Legal Research and Writing projects in law school. We share tips on how to break down LRW projects into...more
Lawyers are professional writers, and the ability to write persuasively is more important than ever. In this episode, Luther Munford, an appellate expert and former law professor, joins Todd Smith and Jody Sanders for an...more
In our ongoing series on essential soft skills for lawyers, we’ve tackled the basics and presentations, and now, we’re diving into the realm of business writing. While you might be proficient in legal jargon, effective...more
Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! Today, we're excited to be talking with Bryan Nese – a partner at Mayer Brown – about career tips for law students, from identifying your ideal employer and successfully making...more
Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! Today we are going to continue the conversation from our last episode with a discussion about persuasive writing in the workplace and some thoughts on the future of legal...more
Introductory signals, according to The Bluebook, help legal writers “organiz[e] authorities and show how authorities support or relate to a proposition given in the text.” In a perfect world, The Bluebook would be easy to...more
We know that attorneys know how to write. You spend years honing your research and writing skills for briefs, memoranda, motions, academic papers, and client letters. Yet when you’re asked to generate content for a practice...more
Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! Today, we're talking about getting comfortable with the Bluebook and writing citations. This is an important skill to develop if you're planning on doing legal writing or...more
Most legal writers know about Ross Guberman, author and founder of Legal Writing Pro. Ross was one of the first legal writing instructors to work with law firms and practitioners across the country. Ross also developed...more
The U.S. Library of Congress is more than just printed books. Among the millions of books, recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps and manuscripts in its collection, it maintains a legal blawgs web archive. The Library...more
Recently, I was involved in a discussion of legal opinions regarding issues of significant legal uncertainty. The 2005 Report of the erstwhile Corporations Committee of the equally erstwhile Business Law Section of the still...more
Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! Today, we have ex-BigLaw recruiter Sadie Jones with us to talk about preparing a great writing sample, which you might need when applying for a law job, a clerkship, or an...more
"Memoranda" and "agenda" are both Latin words. More precisely, they are gerundives. A gerundive is a verbal adjective. Perhaps the most famous use of a gerundive is the passive periphrastic phrase Carthago delenda est!...more
Students beginning the study of law almost immediately confront a congeries of Latin phrases, many of which end in the vowel "o". For example, students will see in pari delicto (in equal fault) and ex delicto (from a wrong)....more
From footnote two of Massachusetts v. Equifax: Although Equifax hinted at [a statutory] argument in a footnote, it did not develop the point or explain its significance in its original or reply memorandum. Instead, Equifax...more
Recently, I came to consider the potential ambiguity in the word "nonplussed". The word originally meant to be confused or perplexed, as in...more
It wasn’t so very long ago that the lawyer who typed his or her own documents was a rara avis indeed. Nowadays, there are few attorneys who don’t. Therefore, I think most lawyers today share the annoyance of inserting the...more
Recently, UCLA Law School Professor Stephen Bainbridge wrote about his allegiance to writing “decision making” as two words. In support, he cites the Chicago Manual of Style. I think that the Manual actually makes a...more
In litigation, first impressions frequently are made through the written word. Professional, coherent and accurate writing is crucial to establishing a good reputation with the court, and ultimately winning your case....more
William Shakespeare breathed his last on April 23rd, 1616, so this April 23rd marks 400 years since his death. It is also, supposedly, his 452nd birthday. Putting aside the oft-silly conspiracy theories and multitudinous...more
String cites are almost universally condemned. Judges at all levels criticize string cites. Minority and dissenting judges criticize majorities that use string cites, and vice versa but to a lesser extent. Attorneys criticize...more
Cross-border agreements come in all shapes and sizes, from manufacturing agreements to joint ventures, employment contracts to merger agreements. Each type has its own quirks, but we can boil down the most common legal issues...more