Legal Writing
Legal Writing: Selected full-text books and articles
The Lawyer's Guide to Writing Well
University of California Press, 2002 (2nd edition)
Language, Meaning and the Law
Edinburgh University Press, 2009
Our Word Is Our Bond: How Legal Speech Acts
Stanford University Press, 2014
Librarian's tip: Section One "Good Legal Writing: Palsgraf"
The Elements of Legal Style
Journal of Appellate Practice and Process, Vol. 10, No. 2, Fall 2009
Legal Writing as Good Writing: Tips from the Trenches
Journal of Appellate Practice and Process, Vol. 14, No. 2, Fall 2013
Fundamentals of Preparing a United States Supreme Court Amicus Brief
Journal of Appellate Practice and Process, Vol. 5, No. 2, Fall 2003
Does the Readability of Your Brief Affect Your Chance of Winning an Appeal? an Analysis of Readability in Appellate Briefs and Its Correlation with Success on Appeal
Journal of Appellate Practice and Process, Vol. 12, No. 1, Spring 2011
Whittling: Drafting Concise and Effective Appellate Briefs
Journal of Appellate Practice and Process, Vol. 14, No. 2, Fall 2013
"When Numbers Get Serious": A Study of Plain English Usage in Briefs Filed before the New York Court of Appeals
Suffolk University Law Review, Vol. 46, No. 2, Spring 2013
Writing a Better Brief: The Civil Appeals Style Manual of the Office of the Maryland Attorney General
Journal of Appellate Practice and Process, Vol. 3, No. 2, Fall 2001
Putting Legal Writing on the Tenure Track: One School's Experience
Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 31, No. 1, Fall 2015
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