The Association of Legal Writing Directors (ALWD) recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of its groundbreaking journal and recognized Professor Michael R. Smith as a prime architect of its creation.

Case briefing has a long history in legal studies as a tried-and-true method for reviewing and analyzing judicial opinions. Whether you’re a law student attempting to master case briefing, or a lawyer ...

California litigator Ryan McCarl has burst onto the legal writing scene as a new authority. His first book, "Elegant Legal Writing," which debuted on Feb. 6, offers timely, practical advice to ...

Illinois Appellate Court Justice David Ellis, who has authored 18 crime fiction books, talks about how judges can use storytelling techniques to write more accessible judicial opinions. Good stories ...

Nov 8 (Reuters) - Law students who used artificial intelligence on several legal writing tasks were able to complete their assignments faster, but their work product wasn’t consistently better than ...

Our Legal Writing faculty are respected scholars and accomplished practitioners. These professors, the majority of whom hold tenure-track positions, have published widely in scholarly journals.

While the contents of judicial decisions may vary greatly, the look and feel of those decisions also lack uniformity. Joe Fore, a professor of legal research and writing, has taken a different ...

I have stressed the need for teaching ethics and professionalism in first-year courses. Legal writing is a particularly good place to teach these subjects. There is a new article that has several good ...

This post continues the preview of this summer's Legal Writing Institute Conference in Indianapolis. We've made up it to the last day of the conference in these previews. The Thursday morning sessions ...

Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. A new study finding that Irish High Court judges were influenced by the existence and specific language of ...