Prepare an outline or overview of the document before beginning to draft, laying out all key points and arguments. If analyzing caselaw, consider: preparing a table of cases, summarizing each case’s ...

Habits are powerful things. And they can be quite positive. Take the following example. Catharine Du Bois, assistant professor of legal writing at Brooklyn Law School, clerked for U.S. District Judge ...

Sept 23 (Reuters) - In castigating lawyers for President Donald Trump last week for filing a “florid” and unfocused 85-page defamation complaint against the New York Times, Senior U.S. District Judge ...

Good legal writing is a lot more than simply getting the law right. The year 2025 has been a very busy one for me in terms of drafting legal briefs on some issue or another. This means that not only ...