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Changemakers: To Empower And Amplify Lgbtq+ Voices, Michelle Choate
Changemakers: To Empower And Amplify Lgbtq+ Voices, Michelle Choate
Life of the Law School (1993- )
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Law Library Blog (January 2021): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Law Library Blog (January 2021): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Law Library Newsletters/Blog
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Corresponding Ideas In Corresponding Forms, Patrick Barry
Corresponding Ideas In Corresponding Forms, Patrick Barry
Articles
Don’t make the mistake of thinking that content always comes before structure. You don’t need to figure out all your ideas before you decide how to organize them. Much value can come from going in the opposite direction: first figure out how you are going to organize your ideas—their appropriate structure—and then determine the appropriate content. I often offer law students the following suggestion: “Once you find the right structure, perhaps it will be easier to find the right content.”
Law Library Blog (October 2018): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Law Library Blog (October 2018): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Law Library Newsletters/Blog
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Paragraphing, Patrick Barry
Paragraphing, Patrick Barry
Articles
Consider treating the word paragraph as a verb. Think of it as something you can do well or poorly, with major consequences for your readers. Good paragraphers, for example, help readers. They make it easy to navigate and absorb information. They don’t flit around, hastily moving on to the next point before fully supporting their first. Nor do they get stuck for too long in one place. Instead, they give a lot of thought not just to the ideas but also to their arrangement—their shape, their balance, their pace.
Bridging The Gap: Transistioning Law School Legal Writing Skills To Practicing Law, Jason G. Dykstra
Bridging The Gap: Transistioning Law School Legal Writing Skills To Practicing Law, Jason G. Dykstra
Jason Dykstra
Stylistically ... law school legal writing differs somewhat from writing in practice. ...This article ... is designed to help transition the legal writing skills honed in law school to the practice of Law. [excerpt]
Creac In The Real World, Diane B. Kraft
Creac In The Real World, Diane B. Kraft
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
This article will examine the extent to which common legal writing paradigms such as CREAC are used by attorneys in the "real world" of practice when writing on the kinds of issues law students may encounter in the first-year legal writing classroom. To that end, it will focus on the analysis of two factor-based criminal law issues: whether a defendant was in custody and whether a defendant had a reasonable expectation of privacy. In focusing on "first-year" issues, the article seeks not to examine whether organizational paradigms are used at all in legal analysis, but to discover whether and how …
Effective Writing Is Organized Writing, Melissa N. Henke
Effective Writing Is Organized Writing, Melissa N. Henke
Law Faculty Popular Media
Effective legal writers organize their analysis with the reader in mind. This article focuses on two common techniques used in creating organized writing strong topic sentences and appropriate transitions.
Global Law Firms: Globalization And Organizational Spaces Of Cross-Border Legal Work, James R. Faulconbridge, Jonathan V. Beaverstock, Daniel Muzio, Peter J. Taylor
Global Law Firms: Globalization And Organizational Spaces Of Cross-Border Legal Work, James R. Faulconbridge, Jonathan V. Beaverstock, Daniel Muzio, Peter J. Taylor
Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business
The aim of this paper is not, however, to generically chart the rise of the global law firm; others have already done this. Instead, our interest lies in better understanding how existing geographies of globalization of law and lawyers, alongside the new geographies of professional partnership and legal work, have created opportunities and challenges for global law firms. More specifically, we seek to unravel the complexities of: (a) the factors driving the presence and absence of global law firms in different cities; and (b) the way that law firms have been reconfigured to operate as spatially distributed organizations present in …
Road Maps, K.K. Duvivier
Road Maps, K.K. Duvivier
Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship
When you write, do your readers know your ultimate destination and how you will get there? Help them trek through your analysis by providing a road map.
Getting Organized: Part Ii, K.K. Duvivier
Getting Organized: Part Ii, K.K. Duvivier
Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship
In the July issue (at 1399), the Scrivener focused on the usefulness of the IRAC paradigm. This column will address some of the questions students and colleagues have asked about that paradigm and its applicability to large-scale organization in legal writing.
Getting Organized: Part I, K.K. Duvivier
Getting Organized: Part I, K.K. Duvivier
Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship
Good organization is fundamental to effective writing. No matter how brilliant your argument is, it may be misunderstood—or completely ignored—if its organization does not work. The argument becomes accessible to the reader through intelligent organization.