Legalwriting.net Blog by Wayne Schiess

This poem was written by one of my students; I found it entertaining. What should legal writing be? Clear as the water in the sea, Understood by you and me. That’s what Schiess said. Legal writing shouldn’t be too long, But brevity alone is wrong; Concise but with its meaning strong. That’s what Schiess said [...]

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In my summer-term Advanced Legal Writing course, I ask students to write an essay about legal writing. Here is one of my favorites from this summer. _____ “Wow. You’re surrounded by a lot of positive support.” So says Mike Myers’s character to Nicole Kidman’s conceited child alter-ego when she boasts about how everyone tells her [...]

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