California litigator Ryan McCarl has burst onto the legal writing scene as a new authority. His first book, "Elegant Legal Writing," which debuted on Feb. 6, offers timely, practical advice to ...

Whether you are writing a brief, a research memorandum or a client report, what you write, and how you write it, communicates your ideas to your audience. Are your sentences wordy and rambling, or ...

When Boechler v. Commissioner was argued, I wrote about how the statute in the case presented several grammar and usage quandaries. Now, the Supreme Court has unanimously agreed: The statute's text is ...

The Association of Legal Writing Directors (ALWD) recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of its groundbreaking journal and recognized Professor Michael R. Smith as a prime architect of its creation.

Sometimes, yes. At least that’s one takeaway from the argument in a recent U.S. Supreme Court case, Boechler, P.C. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue. If you’re a fan of grammar and usage quandaries, ...

Wolters Kluwer has published a number of free teaching guidebooks for law professors. This post highlights two of these books. The first is Strategies and Techniques for Teaching Legal Analysis and ...

Professor Terry Jean Seligmann, director of the law school's legal writing program and Emily Zimmerman, legal writing professor and criminal law concentration director, presented at the 2015 ...

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TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/NSF) - Parsing sentences might be a lost art, but attorneys in a court battle over a controversial Florida law that targets violent protests might want to brush up on their ...