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No. 1 –
Thinking about Legal Writing: The What & How of Legal Writing
Tip No. 1 provides
some thoughts about legal writing from the Preface to the Guide to Legal Writing Style by Terri LeClercq,
Senior Lecturer and Fellow, the Norman W. Black Professor in Ethical
Communications Law at the University of Texas School of Law.
The 3rd edition of the Guide
to Legal Writing Style was published by Aspen Law &
Business in 2004.
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No. 2 –
Thinking about Legal Writing: The What & How of Legal Writing:
Macro/Micro Organization … Using Marginalia
Tip No. 2 provides
some thoughts about how to organize a final product once a writer
has tentatively chosen the content. It is based on Chapter
1 of the Guide to Legal Writing Style by Terri LeClercq,
Senior Lecturer and Fellow, the Norman W. Black Professor in Ethical
Communications Law at the University of Texas School of Law.
The 3rd edition of the Guide
to Legal Writing Style was published by Aspen Law &
Business in 2004.
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No. 3 –
Thinking about Legal Writing: Developing a Didactic Style …
Using Internal Cueing
Tip No. 3 provides
some thoughts about “internal cuing” from Chapter 1
to the Guide to Legal Writing Style by Terri LeClercq,
Senior Lecturer and Fellow, the Norman W. Black Professor in Ethical
Communications Law at the University of Texas School of Law.
The 3rd edition of the Guide
to Legal Writing Style was published by Aspen Law &
Business in 2004.
Tip No. 3 also provides
information about a new edition of Eugene Voloch’s Academic Legal Writing Style.
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No. 4 – Thinking about Legal Writing: Using Introductory “Set
Ups”
Tip No. 4 provides
some thoughts about using introductory “set ups” from
Chapter 1 of the Guide to Legal Writing Style by Terri LeClercq,
Senior Lecturer and Fellow, the Norman W. Black Professor in Ethical
Communications Law at the University of Texas School of Law.
The 3rd edition of the Guide
to Legal Writing Style was published by Aspen Law &
Business in 2004.
Tip No. 4 also provides
information about the new 18th edition of The Blue Book: A Uniform System of Citation.
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No. 5 –
Thinking about Legal Writing: Using Thesis Statements
Tip No. 5 provides
some thoughts about using thesis statements from the Chapter 1 of
the Guide to Legal Writing Style by Terri LeClercq,
Senior Lecturer and Fellow, the Norman W. Black Professor in Ethical
Communications Law at the University of Texas School of Law.
The 3rd edition of the Guide
to Legal Writing Style was published by Aspen Law &
Business in 2004.
Tip No. 5 also provides
information about The Aspen
Handbook for Legal Writers – A Practical Reference by
Deborah E. Bouchoux of Georgetown University.
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No. 6 –
Thinking about Legal Writing: Using Writing Roadmaps
Tip No. 6 provides
some thoughts about using writing roadmaps from Chapter 1 of the
Guide to Legal Writing Style by Terri LeClercq,
Senior Lecturer and Fellow, the Norman W. Black Professor in Ethical
Communications Law at the University of Texas School of Law.
The 3rd edition of the Guide
to Legal Writing Style was published by Aspen Law &
Business in 2004.
Tip No. 6 also provides
information The Redbook –
A Manual on Legal Style by Bryan A. Garner, the editor-in-chief
of Black’s Law Dictionary.
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No. 7 –
Thinking about Legal Writing: Using Heading and Subheadings
Tip No. 7 provides
some thoughts about using headings and subheadings from Chapter
1 of the Guide to Legal Writing
Style by Terri LeClercq, Senior Lecturer and Fellow,
the Norman W. Black Professor in Ethical Communications Law at the
University of Texas School of Law. The 3rd edition
of the Guide to Legal Writing
Style was published by Aspen Law & Business in 2004.
Tip No. 7 also provides
information about helpful resources for writing a law-school seminar
paper.
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No. 8 –
Thinking about Legal Writing: Writing Good Paragraphs with Topic
Sentences
Tip No. 8 provides
some thoughts about writing good paragraphs with topic sentences
from Chapter 1 of the Guide
to Legal Writing Style by Terri LeClercq, Senior Lecturer
and Fellow, the Norman W. Black Professor in Ethical Communications
Law at the University of Texas School of Law. The 3rd
edition of the Guide to Legal Writing Style was published
by Aspen Law & Business in 2004.
Tip No. 8 also provides
information about helpful resources for writing a law-school research
paper.
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No. 9 –
Thinking about Legal Writing: Using Transitions Effectively
Tip No. 9 provides
some thoughts about using transitions effectively from Chapter 1
of the Guide to Legal Writing Style by Terri LeClercq,
Senior Lecturer and Fellow, the Norman W. Black Professor in Ethical
Communications Law at the University of Texas School of Law.
The 3rd edition of the Guide
to Legal Writing Style was published by Aspen Law &
Business in 2004.
Tip No. 9 also provides
information about Basic Legal
Research – Tools and Strategies by Professor Amy
E. Sloan, who teaches at the University of Baltimore School of Law.
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No. 10 –
Thinking about Legal Writing: Dealing with Problems that Affect
a Text’s Readability – The Overuse (or the Inadvertent
Use) of the Passive Voice
Tip No. 10 provides
some thoughts about the use of the passive voice from Chapter 2
of the Guide to Legal Writing
Style by Terri LeClercq, Senior Lecturer and Fellow,
the Norman W. Black Professor in Ethical Communications Law at the
University of Texas School of Law. The 3rd edition
of the Guide to Legal Writing
Style was published by Aspen Law & Business in 2004.
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No. 11 –
Thinking about Legal Writing: Dealing with Problems of Sentence
Length
Tip No. 11 provides
some thoughts about how to deal with problems of sentence length
from Chapter 2 of the Guide
to Legal Writing Style by Terri LeClercq, Senior Lecturer
and Fellow, the Norman W. Black Professor in Ethical Communications
Law at the University of Texas School of Law. The 3rd
edition of the Guide to Legal Writing Style was published
by Aspen Law & Business in 2004.
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No. 12 –
Thinking about Legal Writing: dealing with “Left-Handed”
Sentences
Tip No. 12 provides
some thoughts about how to deal with “left-handed” sentences
from Chapter 2 of the Guide
to Legal Writing Style by Terri LeClercq, Senior Lecturer
and Fellow, the Norman W. Black Professor in Ethical Communications
Law at the University of Texas School of Law. The 3rd
edition of the Guide to Legal Writing Style was published
by Aspen Law & Business in 2004.
Tip No. 12 also
provides information about writing resources for students who are
considering judicial clerkships.
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No. 13 –
Thinking about Legal Writing: Dealing with Faulty Parallelism
Tip No. 13 provides
some thoughts about how to deal with faulty parallelism from Chapter
2 of the Guide to Legal Writing
Style by Terri LeClercq, Senior Lecturer and Fellow,
the Norman W. Black Professor in Ethical Communications Law at the
University of Texas School of Law. The 3rd edition
of the Guide to Legal Writing Style was published
by Aspen Law & Business in 2004.
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No. 14 –
The Structural Levels of Sentences: Superordination-Subordination-Coordination
Tip No. 14 focuses on the coordination and subordination of ideas; it discusses the
structural levels of sentences and their hierarchical arrangement,
and it shows how to enhance the readability of a paragraph.
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No. 15 –
The Functional Roles of Sentences: Rhetorical-Generalizing-Sequencing-Relating-Developing
Tip No. 15 discusses
the functional roles of sentences within a paragraph.
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No. 16 –
A Quick Reference Guide to Make Page Numbers Line Up
With many
law students writing legal briefs this term, Tip No. 16 provides
a Quick Reference Guide to help students make the page numbers line-up
on the right-hand side with tabs when using Microsoft Word, Word
Perfect, and Corel Word Perfect, and to help students troubleshoot
when periods, spaces, and tabs have been inserted.
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No. 17 –
Some Helpful Texts for Law Students: A Book to Help Deal with Legalese
and a Booklet to Help Deal with Law School Stress
Tip No. 17 provides information about some helpful texts for law students:
(1) a book to help deal with legalese entitled Lifting the Fog of Legalese: Essays on Plain Language
by Professor Joseph Kimble from the Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan and (2) a booklet
to help deal with stress entitled The Hidden Sources of Law School
Stress: Avoiding the Mistakes that Create Unhappy and Unprofessional
Lawyers by Professor Larry Krieger from Florida State University
College of Law.
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No. 18 –
A Helpful Text for Law Students: The New Edition of the ALWD Citation
Manual Is Released
Tip No. 18 provides information about a helpful text for law students. Aspen Publishers
has recently released the Third Edition of the ALWD Citation Manual: A Professional System of Citation.
Written by the Association of Legal Writing Directors under the
direction of Dean Darby Dickerson from Stetson University College
of Law, the Third Edition of the ALWD
Citation Manual is a 608-page standardized guide that
presents a single, consistent system of citation for all forms of
legal writing in a clear, attractive, and easy-to-use format.
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No. 19 – Some Helpful Texts for Law Students: Writing
a legal Memo and Pass the Bar!
Tip No. 19 provides information about helpful texts for law students: Writing a Legal
Memo by Professor John Bronsteen, from Loyola University
Chicago, School of Law, and Pass the Bar! by Professor Denise Riebe from Duke University
School of Law and Professor Michael Schwartz from Western State University College of Law.
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No. 20 –
A Helpful Article about the Appellate Process Written for Law Students
With many
law students working on appellate briefs this semester, Tip No.
20 provides information about a timely article written by Professor
Amy Sloan from the University of Baltimore School of Law that has
been published in the University of Baltimore Law Review that is
entitled Appellate Fruit Salad and Other Concepts: A Short Course
in Appellate Process.
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