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A collection of resources for lawyers, who write. From Raymond Ward, an appellate lawyer with Adams and Reese LLP in New Orleans.
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Well, that narrows it down.
Posted on January 10, 2008Yesterday I received an e-mail from TypePad telling me that The (New) Legal Writer will be featured on TypePad?s home page. When will this happen? According to the e-mail:Your featured blog will be seen by all who visit our homepage on or about the early/mid/latter part of February...
Black?s Law Dictionary Digital
Posted on January 05, 2008Here?s an interesting product available on Amazon.com: a digital version of Black?s Law Dictionary. Besides providing easy desktop access to BLD, it integrates with both Corel WordPerfect and Microsoft Word, including incorporation of the correct spellings of legal terms into the WordPerfect and Word spell-checkers...
Black???s Law Dictionary Digital
Posted on January 05, 2008Here???s an interesting product available on Amazon.com: a digital version of Black???s Law Dictionary. Besides providing easy desktop access to BLD, it integrates with both Corel WordPerfect and Microsoft Word, including incorporation of the correct spellings of legal terms into the WordPerfect and Word spell-checkers...
A nice use of the stress position
Posted on January 04, 2008Roy Peter Clark has observed that children who write sometimes intuitively know how to use the stress position: the end of a sentence or paragraph. Case in point, spotted on Matthew Stibbe?s Bad Language:
A suggested New Year?s resolution
Posted on January 01, 2008A little over a year ago, Wayne Schiess posted an essay against placing too much importance on the form of citations: something Wayne referred to as ?the tyranny of the inconsequential.? Wayne?s essay is the inspiration for my own New Year?s resolution: to escape the tyranny of the trivial...
A suggested New Year???s resolution
Posted on January 01, 2008A little over a year ago, Wayne Schiess posted an essay against placing too much importance on the form of citations: something Wayne referred to as ???the tyranny of the inconsequential.??? Wayne???s essay is the inspiration for my own New Year???s resolution: to escape the tyranny of the trivial...
How to type a non-breaking space
Posted on December 31, 2007Let?s say your memorandum cites 28 U.S.C. § 1331. Let?s say the citation occurs near the end of a line, so that the § is at the end of one line and the 1331 is at the beginning of the next. How do you keep the two together on the same line with a space in between? Answer: You type a non-breaking space, also known as a hard space or a fixed space...
A word I learned today that I should have already known
Posted on December 26, 2007In reading a reported decision today, I came across the verb ramify. For years I?ve known its nominalization, ramification. And I?ve known for some time that any word with the suffix ?tion is probably based on a verb. But I never figured out until today that ramification has a verb root, which is ramify...
What he said.
Posted on December 25, 2007Matthew Stibbe wishes one and all ?an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive gender-neutral, celebration of the winter solstice holiday ...,? politically correct, with an unhealthy batch of disclaimers. Me too.
Write well; impress clients.
Posted on December 23, 2007The Association of Corporate Counsel?s web site features a monthly Top Ten column. This month?s installment is Top Ten Ways to Achieve Good Legal Writing, by Professor Paula Colby-Clements of the Massachusetts School of Law. It?s a good article. Practicing lawyers should heed not only its content, but it?s publication by the ACC ? a sign that corporate counsel value good legal writing...
More choices in fonts designed for on-screen reading
Posted on December 22, 2007A few days ago, I thought there were only two typefaces designed for on-screen reading: Georgia (with serifs) and Verdana (sans serif). But if you?re running Microsoft Office 2007 or Microsoft Vista, you have more choices: six new fonts forming Microsoft?s ClearType collection...
A terrific seminar
Posted on December 16, 2007If you?re an appellate lawyer or a general litigator who sometimes handles appeals, then you should consider attending the DRI Appellate Advocacy Seminar, to be held in Orlando, Florida on February 28?29, 2008. I have been fortunate enough to attend every DRI Appellate Advocacy Seminar ever held, from the first one in 1999 in Washington, D...
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Did I harass someone?
Oh, yes. This can be taken in as so many things, especially since you had testif...
How to evict a roommate?
First, in most jurisdictions "self-help" is not a remedy available to any party ...
I have worked for this employer for only three weeks. The employer makes up his own rules as to what he chooses to report for the purpose of property taxes. He tells me to "let them come after us". He defines Entertain
He arrogantly insists, "let them come after us." Well, if you are invo...
This has happened 3 or 4 times a month now- they have turned the electric off 2 days consecutively, the water off about 9 or 10 times now, and our heat has broken 5 times (once it would not shut off, and we were forced t
i say stick with the apartment. eventually, everything possible will be replaced...
The company I worked for forced me to quit instead of dealing with someone harassing me, what can I do?
Look up CONSTRUCTIVE DISCHARGE...................this looks like what happened t...
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