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“Potshots and hyperbole”?
Did you hear about the federal judge who called out the “potshots and hyperbole” in a motion and asked counsel to refile? BriefCatch and I spent about an hour trying to help. Here’s the result if you simply cut hyperbole,…
The Best Briefs: What AI Reveals
Curious what top brief-writers do differently from the rest of us? This AI-powered study shares concrete, practical solutions. View on FlippingBook.com.
Nine Writing Tips. Nine Justices. One Tumultuous Term.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s current ideological divide may be the sharpest we’ve seen in a long time. Yet the justices do unite in one key respect: The current court boasts some of the best opinion writers in American legal history….
Six Ways to Tighten Motions
An elite litigation boutique filed the rejected motion for Meta (Facebook). The apparently offending footnotes seemed reasonable, but the judge still kicked the motion out of court until the litigators could refile. Lesson for all: When it comes to word…
Supreme Structure: Four Tips from the Chief Justice
Good legal writers form coherent paragraphs. Great legal writers like Chief Justice Roberts do far more: 1) create a linear progression of paragraph openers, 2) add interim conclusions, 2) sprinkle in higher-level logical transitions, and 4) use echoing and dovetailing…