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Enhancing The Effectiveness Of Your Legal Writing, Jason G. Dykstra
Enhancing The Effectiveness Of Your Legal Writing, Jason G. Dykstra
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This article focuses on areas where busy practitioners can aspire for plain English and not only improve their writing but possibly avoid a few pitfalls. As Justice Brandeis once remarked, "There is no such thing as good writing. There is only good rewriting" So here are three areas to focus on as you rewrite: minimizing initialisms, acronyms, and defined terms; losing legal jargon and cutting clutter; and balancing legal terms and precision.
Bridging The Gap: Transitioning Law School Legal Writing Skills To Practicing Law, Jason G. Dykstra
Bridging The Gap: Transitioning Law School Legal Writing Skills To Practicing Law, Jason G. Dykstra
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Newsroom: Rwu Law Adds Skills Programs And Faculty 8/15/2016, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Newsroom: Rwu Law Adds Skills Programs And Faculty 8/15/2016, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Life of the Law School (1993- )
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Trending @ Rwu Law: Dean Yelnosky's Post: Rwu Law Continues To Add Skills Programs And Faculty 08/12/2016, Michael Yelnosky
Trending @ Rwu Law: Dean Yelnosky's Post: Rwu Law Continues To Add Skills Programs And Faculty 08/12/2016, Michael Yelnosky
Law School Blogs
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Practical Tips For Placing And Publishing Your First Law Review Article, Robert Luther Iii
Practical Tips For Placing And Publishing Your First Law Review Article, Robert Luther Iii
University of Richmond Law Review
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Why Write?, Alexander O. Rovzar
Why Write?, Alexander O. Rovzar
University of Massachusetts Law Review
Introduction to the Winter 2016 issue of the UMass Law Review, written by Alexander O. Rovzar, Editor-in-Chief.
Lawyers At Work: A Study Of The Reading, Writing, And Communication Practices Of Legal Professionals, Ann N. Sinsheimer, David J. Herring
Lawyers At Work: A Study Of The Reading, Writing, And Communication Practices Of Legal Professionals, Ann N. Sinsheimer, David J. Herring
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This paper reports the results of a three-year ethnographic study of attorneys in the workplace. The authors applied ethnographic methods to identify how junior associates in law firm settings engaged in reading and writing tasks in their daily practice. The authors were able to identify the types of texts junior associates encountered in the workplace and to isolate the strategies these attorneys used to read and compose texts.
The findings suggest that lawyering is fundamentally about reading. The attorneys observed for this study read constantly, encountering a large variety of texts and engaging in many styles of reading, including close …