I've got most every legal writing book known to man, but I love to browse my favorite legal writing websites and blogs for new, hot-off-the-press tips. I regularly follow these blogs and websites to improve my writing.
Lawprose
Legal writing godfather Bryan Garner's website is a treasure trove of information for those eager to learn about good legal writing. LawProse has Garner-conducted interviews with federal and state judges on legal writing, usage and writing tips, a word of the day, and many other features.
www.lawprose.org
Legal Writing Pro
On his website, Ross Guberman offers excellent tips for brief writing that
he supports with real-life examples. I’m a huge fan of Guberman’s book, Point Made, now in its second edition,
and Guberman offers additional brief-writing advice on Legal Writing Pro. Some of my
favorite Guberman articles include Five
Ways to Write Like John Roberts and The
Supreme Writer on the Court: The Case for Kagan.
www.legalwritingpro.com
Brief Right
Brief Right is the brainchild of Hollingsworth LLP’s Kirby
Griffis. On the blog, Griffis offers a variety of practical advice for creating
briefs—recent posts include using the table of contents to persuade,
acknowledging weaknesses, and avoiding what Griffis calls BRIQs (Big, Really
Impenetrable Quotes).
www.briefright.com
Adams on Drafting
Ken Adams is a contract-drafting guru, and his website
offers great tips for drafting clear contracts. Adams is the author of A Manual
of Style for Contract Drafting, and he offers plenty of advice through his
regular articles and posts on some of the stickiest contract drafting issues.
www.adamsdrafting.com
Typography for Lawyers
The Typography for Lawyers website provides some of the
information contained in Matthew Butterick’s excellent book of the same name. Butterick’s advice
ranges from selecting readable fonts to using white space to avoiding widow and
orphan lines. Butterick provides sample documents to demonstrate the importance
of typography and even offers typography strategies for different types of
documents, from briefs to business cards.
www.typographyforlawyers.com
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