Law schools are sometimes faulted for not “teaching students to write well,” as if the goal were to mint stylists on demand. That’s not the complaint here. Let’s focus instead on a... Read more »
Law schools are sometimes faulted for not “teaching students to write well,” as if the goal were to mint stylists on demand. That’s not the complaint here. Let’s focus instead on a... Read more »
Many lawyers have eagerly adopted the buzzword “BLUF”—bottom line up front—as if invoking the acronym were synonymous with careful thinking. The catch is that almost no one stops to ask the important... Read more »
Lawyers often make their prose harder to follow than it needs to be. One of the worst culprits is time-toggling—those unannounced leaps from present to past, from recent to remote, from actual... Read more »
Lawyers often make their prose harder to follow than it needs to be. One of the worst culprits is time-toggling—those unannounced leaps from present to past, from recent to remote, from actual... Read more »
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The 18th century gave the Western world revolutions of every sort—scientific, political, linguistic—and in America, it gave rise to the most consequential style debate in the nation’s history. The argument was not... Read more »
The 18th century gave the Western world revolutions of every sort—scientific, political, linguistic—and in America, it gave rise to the most consequential style debate in the nation’s history. The argument was not... Read more »
Editor’s Note: Starting in September, the Bryan Garner on Words column will be running monthly on ABAJournal.com. Although we hear a lot of talk about artificial intelligence, a large segment of the... Read more »
Editor’s Note: Starting in September, the Bryan Garner on Words column will be running monthly on ABAJournal.com. Although we hear a lot of talk about artificial intelligence, a large segment of the... Read more »
Home Magazine Oscar vs. Jeff: Trial lawyers and appellate… Garner on Words Oscar vs. Jeff: Trial lawyers and appellate counsel do different jobs, and it may show in their writing By Bryan... Read more »