Legal Writing and Poetry
Kudos to Greg May (host of The California Blog of Appeal) for informing us of this award given to Justice Arthur Gilbert, “The California Court of Appeal’s poet laureate.”
Attorneys are Authors and Law Firms are Publishers
Some Recent Articles
- Is Your Web Site OK Today?
- Looking Sharp Online
- Blogging Tips for and Solos
- How Editors Serve Attorneys
- A Formula for Shy Attorneys
Topics
Some Popular Posts
- Our Law Firm Can Help You If . . . .
- Writing for Readers — Be Interesting
- Have You Heard the One About . . .
- Writing for Readers — Cut Words
- Anything Worth Doing . . .
- Common Errors (#6)
- What Can an Editor Do?
- Participles, Including “What the Heck?”
- $2.3 Million Worth of Irony
- Case Study — Audience Analysis
- Putting Modifiers in Their Place
- Writing for Readers #1
- What Editors Do for Attorneys
- Women Attorneys v. Female Attorneys — Part I
Archives
About Legal Writing
- Academic Legal Writing
- Appellate Briefs — A Reader’s Perspective
- Better Legal Writing
- How to Write a Brief
- Improving Legal Writing
- Law Writing
- Legal Writing Journal
- Paid by the Word
- Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing
- Wayne Schiess on Legal Writing
- Writing For Law Practice: Advanced Legal Writing
Articles of Interest
Blogs of Interest
- Adams Drafting
- Althouse
- Anonymous Lawyer (The Blog)
- Balkinization
- copyblogger
- Legal Research & Writing
- Legal Writing Professor
- Lex Blog
- the (new) legal writer
- the (new) legal writer
- The Legal Marketing Blog
- The Volokh Conspiracy
- Wayne Schiess on Legal Writing
- Write for Clients
- Writing, Clear and Simple
Books on Legal Writing
- A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting
- A Practical Guide to Persuasive Legal Writing
- Aspen Handbook For Legal Writers: A Practical Reference
- Block’s Effective Legal Writing For Law Students and Lawyers
- Just Writing: Grammar, Punctuation, And Style For The Legal Writer
- Legal Writing for Legal Assistants
- Legal Writing for Paralegals
- Legal Writing: Getting It Right and Getting It Written
- Logic for Lawyers
- Mightier Than the Sword
- Plain English for Lawyers
- Pleasing the Court
- Scholarly Writing for Law Students
- The Lawyer’s Guide to Writing Well
- The Legal Writer: 40 Rules for the Art of Legal Writing
- The Legal Writing Handbook: Analysis, Research And Writing
- The Party of the First Part
- The Redbook
- The Winning Brief
- Thinking Like a Writer
- Working with Words in Business and Legal Writing
- Writing and Analysis in the Law
- Writing For Law Practice: Advanced Legal Writing
- Writing to Win
Miscellany
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe Photoshop
- Anonymous Lawyer (The Book)
- Brush With the Law
- Double Billing
- In-House Editor
- Investing in Writing Skills Pays Off
- Shall v. May or Must
- Skadden: Power, Money, and the Rise of a Legal Empire
- Test of a New Lawyer’s Writing
- The Lure of the Law
- Writing Clearly and Effectively – How to Keep the Reader’s Attention
Organizations
Production Tools
Reference & Advice
- A Crash Course in Typography
- A Plain English Handbook
- A Web Style Guide
- Chicago Manual of Style
- Comma, Comma, and Comma
- Courses on Advanced Legal Writing and Editing
- Elements of Typographic Style
- Evan Schaeffer
- Good Legal Writing
- How to Write Good Legal Stuff
- Legal Language Resources
- Legal Writing in Plain English
- Legal Writing Pro
- Leland Communications
- Lynch’s Guide to Grammar and Style
- Manage Your Writing
- Plain Language Dot Gov
- Software Usability Research Laboratory
- Style Guide from University of Minnesota
- The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Practicing Law
- Type & Layout
- Typographic Details
- Typophile
- Unmuddle Your Writing
- Wayne Schiess on Legal Writing
- Wex
- Writing for Dollars, Writing to Please
- Writing Law Essays
Sites of Interest
- American Legal Writers
- Can Lawyers Write Simply?
- Conversation Marketing
- Get it Write
- Grammar Girl
- Law Student Writing Competitions
- LawProse, Inc.
- Legal Affairs
- Legal Research & Writing Pro
- Linex Legal
- Nielsen Normann Group
- On Plain Language
- The New Legal Writer
- World Wide Words
- Writing Tools from Poynter Online
