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: The Illinois Trial Practice BlogThe Supreme Court on Legal Writing
By Evan Schaeffer
The news has already made its way around the law-related weblogs, but I wanted to bookmark it here for my own purposes: Bryan Garner's interviews about legal writing with eight U.S. Supreme-Court justices, all available in one place at LawProse, Inc.
In 2006-2007, Bryan Garner interviewed eight of the nine Justices about legal writing and advocacy. These are the complete interviews. Because the files are large, the videos may take a few moments to start playing.
LawProse is making these interviews available as a public service. Anyone may freely use these videos for educational purposes, with appropriate attribution to Bryan Garner or LawProse.
You should begin, of course, with Justice Scalia . . . and don't miss his "cocktail-party test" for determining whether your legal writing is being ruined by too much legalese.
Full post as published by The Illinois Trial Practice Blog on March 13, 2008 (boomark / email).
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