331 ABA Journal Legal Writing articles.
International contract disputes aren’t usually high on legal reading lists, but there is one that should be.
A majority and concurring opinion (PDF) by two judges for the Chicago-based…
Jan 5, 2011 11:29 AM CST
Blindly following grammar rules can be a mistake for legal writers, according to a lawyer and a public relations consultant.
That means it is permissible to boldly split your infinitives,…
Sep 3, 2010 11:00 AM CDT
The legal writings of Harvard law dean Elena Kagan don’t provide many clues about her terrorism positions that vexed the Bush administration.
The New York Times…
Jan 7, 2009 1:34 PM CST
Justice Antonin Scalia—the U.S. Supreme Court’s great dissenter—stayed true to form as he accepted a lifetime achievement award from the American Society of Legal Writers on Saturday.
“I do not…
Aug 9, 2008 7:31 PM CDT
The Art of Persuading Judges
May 1, 2008 1:01 PM CDT
ABA JOURNAL: We’re here in Washington, and we’re here with Justice Scalia and with Bryan Garner in Dallas. We’re talking about their new book, and the book is called Making…
May 1, 2008 1:00 PM CDT
Justice Antonin Scalia is nothing if not quotable. In his latest speech yesterday, he confessed to being disturbed about claims the Constitution erects a strict wall of separation between church…
Apr 11, 2008 12:15 PM CDT
A Harvard University law grad who teaches legal writing and literature at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York is among the Pulitzer Prize winners announced this week.
…Apr 10, 2008 2:41 PM CDT
Eight U.S. Supreme Court justices come clean about their legal-writing pet peeves and their opinion-writing philosophies in “raw and unvarnished” videos posted to a linguist’s Web site.
Lawyers who specialize…
Mar 10, 2008 3:30 PM CDT
Judges have long complained about deficiencies in lawyer advocacy. Now U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is doing something about it.
Scalia is working with legal writing expert Bryan Garner…
Nov 27, 2007 12:39 PM CST
Persuasive briefs are the product of tough choices about substance, style
Jul 1, 2007 10:35 PM CDT
An online paper about environmental dispute resolution posted by Victoria Dawson reportedly is clumsily written, ungrammatical and filled with spelling errors. The problem is, she’s a legal writing instructor at…
Jun 6, 2007 7:53 PM CDT
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