Drafting persuasive legal rules, like all writing conventions, can be done well by minding some basic patterns. These techniques can help you frame rules in a way that favors your client’s position.
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Category: Write to Counsel
Writing Tips From the Bench: Knowing When Less Is More
UW School of Law Professor Jeff Feldman sat down with Judge Morgan Christen of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for a candid conversation about what makes for helpful and persuasive appellate briefs.
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Drafting Transactional Documents and Avoiding Ambiguity
In the realm of legal practice, drafting transactional documents that are clear and unambiguous is paramount.
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Math for Lawyers: The Importance of Counting to Five
With this column, David J.S. Ziff hopes you’ll be better prepared when your research calls for a bit of jurisprudential arithmetic.
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Drawing Connections: A Guide to Visual Advocacy for Lawyers
How to cut through word count and make your legal writing memorable by Incorporating visuals.
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Citing GenAI
This article attempts to answer two very specific and practical questions about generative AI and legal writing: if you use GenAI to draft a piece of writing, do you need a citation telling the reader as much? And if you are simply citing to content produced by GenAI, what should that citation look like?
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