Law Students

"Can Poor Writing Skills Overshadow Good Content"
Posted by Daniel Scocco: “Can poor writing skills overshadow good content? Considering that I am not a native English speaker,...

What the first-year LRLW course can can't do
Every lawyer, law professor, and legal-writing teacher should read Douglas Laycock's article:Douglas Laycock, Why the First-year Legal-writing Course Cannot Do Much about Bad Legal Writing, 1 Scribes J...

Poor legal writing
I've written about legal writing extensively on this blog. In the past couple of days I've read two separate legal briefs that were simply horrendous. One thing I learned in my two years of clerking at federal court is that...

Advice for First Year Law Students: Practice Writing!
Over at PrawfsBlawg, Paul Horowitz offers sage advice to first year law students. For all incoming 1Ls, I recommend that you read Paul's post. I have one piece of advice to add -- practice writing as much as you can...

Setting Writing Targets
When you?re working on a big, long-term writing goal ? perhaps becoming a published novelist, or making a living from your writing ? it?s easy to get discouraged or distracted along the way...

Five Reasons Why Blogging Leads to Writing Jobs
Daily Writing Tips has already covered Five reasons why blogging improves your writing. But once you?ve polished up your skills, and grown used to writing frequently and receiving feedback, blogging can also help you get paid for your writing.

Clearwire Service
alleging poor quality and unfairly charging early termination fees.

Employee Theft
Mother and daughter ordered to pay $1 million settlement for writing false paychecks.