HeyJaredChris Edwards
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Building A Better Brief (opens the original)
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Ed Note: This article is the final installment of our five-part Writing to Persuade: An Appellate Lawyer’s Guide to Legal Writing series. Read Part One, Part Two, Part Three, and Part Four. To close the series, I want to highlight a few grammatical tips that will help propel your writing to the next level. Let’s start with using active voice. If you don’t know the difference between the active voice and its maligned twin, passive voice, think of it this way. The first sentence uses active voice.
The Nuts And Bolts Of Clear, Effective Legal Writing (opens the original)
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Ed. Note: This article is Part Four of our five-part Writing to Persuade: An Appellate Lawyer’s Guide to Legal Writing series. Read Part One, Part Two, and Part Three. In this edition, I want to touch on specific tips that will improve your legal writing and make your argument overall easier to understand. Before diving into these specific tips, bear two things in mind. The first is that these are generalizations that, in certain cases, can be ignored without consequence. That said, I try to sta
Making The Complex Clear: A Guide To Accessible Legal Writing (opens the original)
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Ed. Note: This article is the third of five installments in our Writing to Persuade: An Appellate Lawyer’s Guide to Legal Writing series. Read Part One and Part Two. Last time, we talked about macro strategies for making your legal writing more accessible, using tables of contents wisely and structuring your brief in a logical order that tracks both the relief you’re requesting and the strength of your legal argument. In this edition, I want to address how to make individual arguments more acces
The Architecture Of Persuasion: Structuring Effective Legal Briefs (opens the original)
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Ed. Note: This article is Part Two of our five-part Writing to Persuade: An Appellate Lawyer’s Guide to Legal Writing series. Read Part One. Now, let’s switch gears and turn to how to make your writing more accessible. In future installments, I’ll cover specific legal writing strategies in more detail. For now, I want to zoom out and review what makes a brief accessible at a macro level. We’ll discuss both why it’s important that your brief be accessible and I’ll supply some strategies for achie
Credibility: Your Most Valuable Currency In Legal Writing (opens the original)
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Ed. Note: This article is the first of five installments in our Writing to Persuade: An Appellate Lawyer’s Guide to Legal Writing series. Part Two will be published on August 10. If there’s one thing that separates effective legal writers from the rest, it’s not vocabulary, clever analogies, or even the number of citations. It’s credibility. After more than a decade handling appeals in federal and state courts, I’ve learned that your reputation for accuracy and honesty, on the page, can be your
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