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If you are interested in learning more about legal writing tips, we've gathered some wonderful resources about it on this page.

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Posts About Legal Writing

The Secret Style Guide the Supreme Court Doesn’t Want You to Read

By Brendan Kenny on April 28th, 2017

Hey Hey, Ho Ho, 19th Century Fonts Have Got to Go

By Brendan Kenny on August 15th, 2016

Why Hyperbole Will Destroy Your Case and Understatement Will Save It

By Brendan Kenny on June 29th, 2016

How Scare Quotes Are Saving Legal Writing

By Brendan Kenny on April 4th, 2016

Open Source “Baby Blue” Project Could Finally Kill the Bluebook

By Lisa Needham on December 28th, 2015

How the Solicitor General’s Style Guide Calls Out Bad Legal Writing

By Brendan Kenny on November 4th, 2015

10 Takeaways from Typography for Lawyers

By Matthew Salzwedel on October 26th, 2015

How to Use a Colon

By Sam Glover on November 24th, 2014

The Enigmatic Em Dash

By Matthew Salzwedel on October 22nd, 2014

An Open Source Bluebook May Be Just Around The Corner

By Lisa Needham on October 8th, 2014

Lawyers Fight Bravely to Save the Endangered Adverb

By Sam Glover on October 8th, 2014

BP Lawyers Stretch the Meaning of “Double-Spaced”

By Sam Glover on September 17th, 2014

Faux Words of Precision—Part 1

By Matthew Salzwedel on September 4th, 2013

Fear Not Beginning Sentences with And or But

By Matthew Salzwedel on May 29th, 2013

Legal Writing in Plain English as Culture War

By Andy Mergendahl on May 11th, 2013

Judges Want You to Add Links to Your Pleadings

By Sam Glover on May 8th, 2013

Effective Writing is Efficient Writing

By Matthew Salzwedel on March 27th, 2013

Correct People’s Writing, Not Their Speech

By Andy Mergendahl on March 14th, 2013

Is it Time for Contractions in Legal Writing?

By Matthew Salzwedel on March 13th, 2013

Two Spaces After a Period? Who Cares?

By Sybil Dunlop on February 5th, 2013

Simple Legal Writing a Newfangled Idea? Hardly.

By Matthew Salzwedel on November 14th, 2012

Use Serif Fonts to Make Your Writing More Persuasive

By Sam Glover on August 10th, 2012

Create Superb Legal Writing With the ‘Fictional Dream’

By Chris Bradley on May 18th, 2012

Write Better Than a Second-Rate Poet

By Chris Bradley on March 6th, 2012

Normal People (and Lawyers) Shouldn’t Buy Fonts

By Sam Glover on January 21st, 2012

Don’t Look Dumb: Proofread Your Writing

By Graham Martin on September 6th, 2011

Typeface Choices: Who Gives a Font?

By Karin Conroy on May 5th, 2011

Draft a Great Contract Redline, Under Deadline

By Andy Mergendahl on April 28th, 2011

10 Legal Writing Tips From Bryan Garner

By Leora Maccabee Itman on April 23rd, 2010

Helvetica Should Not Be Used for Everything

By Sam Glover on January 28th, 2008