In this column for Kentucky Bar Association\u27s magazine (B&B - Bench & Bar), Professor Diane B. Kraft makes suggestions about avoiding hyperbole in legal writing
This article explores the relationship of writing and speech in the legal academy through the lens o...
(Excerpt) Building on existing scholarship on legal fictions and empirical psychological research ab...
You are pondering which word to use in a brief. Which should you sue—“supra,” “aforementioned” or “a...
In this column for Kentucky Bar Association\u27s magazine (B&B - Bench & Bar), Professor Diane B. Kr...
Many people, including many lawyers and judges, disparage law reviews and the books that sometimes r...
There is an accuracy that defeats itself by the overemphasis in details, Justice Benjamin Cardozo w...
Professor Abrams authors a column, Writing it Right, in the Journal of the Missouri Bar. In a variet...
Imagine that you have returned to your first year of law school. In your legal writing course, you a...
Most of my columns advise legal writers; this one also aims to change the perspective of a legal rea...
This paper examines the universal nature of hyperbole in different speeches. Hyperbole has been stud...
The SEC has set out six dear writing techniques to require that disclosures be written in Plain En...
One characteristic of legal writing, parodied in the caricature above, is the use of multiple words ...
Virtually all legal writing is atrocious! This is true about (a) statutes and administrative regulat...
This article describes principles of effective academic writing - offered not as edicts, but as guid...
Alliteration is great—until it’s not. You can pretty quickly overdo it, though I don’t think any maj...
This article explores the relationship of writing and speech in the legal academy through the lens o...
(Excerpt) Building on existing scholarship on legal fictions and empirical psychological research ab...
You are pondering which word to use in a brief. Which should you sue—“supra,” “aforementioned” or “a...
In this column for Kentucky Bar Association\u27s magazine (B&B - Bench & Bar), Professor Diane B. Kr...
Many people, including many lawyers and judges, disparage law reviews and the books that sometimes r...
There is an accuracy that defeats itself by the overemphasis in details, Justice Benjamin Cardozo w...
Professor Abrams authors a column, Writing it Right, in the Journal of the Missouri Bar. In a variet...
Imagine that you have returned to your first year of law school. In your legal writing course, you a...
Most of my columns advise legal writers; this one also aims to change the perspective of a legal rea...
This paper examines the universal nature of hyperbole in different speeches. Hyperbole has been stud...
The SEC has set out six dear writing techniques to require that disclosures be written in Plain En...
One characteristic of legal writing, parodied in the caricature above, is the use of multiple words ...
Virtually all legal writing is atrocious! This is true about (a) statutes and administrative regulat...
This article describes principles of effective academic writing - offered not as edicts, but as guid...
Alliteration is great—until it’s not. You can pretty quickly overdo it, though I don’t think any maj...
This article explores the relationship of writing and speech in the legal academy through the lens o...
(Excerpt) Building on existing scholarship on legal fictions and empirical psychological research ab...
You are pondering which word to use in a brief. Which should you sue—“supra,” “aforementioned” or “a...