Category: Legal Writing
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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.
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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.…
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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.
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Time Management meet project management (i.e., Legal Writing assignments)
This post offers an example of how to break a big project (the closed memo) into a bunch of tasks that can be sprinkled throughout one’s schedule to ensure timely completion.
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CB’s Tech Tips: Word Processing Styles
This post walks through applying “styles” in Microsoft Word. Using styles helps increase efficiency in formatting documents, generates click navigation within a document, and unlocks the table of contents generator tool.