Month: March 2022

  • Rule statements in informal legal writing, part 1

    Rule statements in informal legal writing, part 1

    In part 1 of “Rule statement in informal legal writing,” Professor Baldwin articulates the attributes that distinguish rule statements from other sentences in written legal analysis and discusses the first two attributes in some depth.

  • CB’s Tech Tips: Generating a Table of Contents

    CB’s Tech Tips: Generating a Table of Contents

    Modern word processing software makes it incredibly easy to generate a table of contents for documents. However, that feature is predicated on users applying styles to document text to instruct the program on which text snippets need to be listed in the table of contents and thereby what pages that content can be found on.…

  • Framing legal issues in informal legal writing

    Framing legal issues in informal legal writing

    This post delineates the differences in issue-framing for formal and informal legal writing and provides examples of the three classic strategies to frame issues in the time pressures of law school exams.