Legal Writing

Weekend Reading Materials

I’ve got three recommendations.

The first is a list of blog posts you must read. The list is published by the three intrepid law geeks who run3 Geeks and a Law Blog.

Here’s an excerpt from the #1 post, written by Chuck Newton, the man who first claimed that, “information becomes the main material for workers, each of which are only loosely affiliated”:

By these measurements, traditional law firms are designed (intentionally or by happenstance) to handle a certain degree of capacity.  In other words, it can handle so many cases or clients with the infrastructure it has.  If the cases and clients are increasing, a law firm can find itself running to catch up.  This would represent undercapacity.  You see this a lot in Big Law on the grow. 

The second and third were authored by Honorable Gerald Lebovits; both appeared in the journal of the New York State Bar Association.

In these two articles, Judge Lebovits advises attorneys on the basics of typesetting and page design. He likens the importance of looking good in print, to the importance of looking sharp in court.

Document Design: Pretty in Print ? Part I

Document Design: Pretty in Print ? Part II

Full post as published by Set in Style on May 29, 2009 (boomark / email).