Appellate Practice
Jul. 11, 2007
The Write Stuff
Forum Column - By William Domnarski - Legal writing often suffers from authors more focused on their own ego or emotions than on clarity or persuasion.
William Domnarski
Email: domnarski@gmail.com
William Domnarski is a Southland mediator and practitioner. His latest book is "Richard Posner," published by Oxford University Press in 2016.
By William Domnarski
The biggest problem with legal writing is that we call it legal writing. It's done by lawyers, to be sure, in matters before courts, presumptively making it legal writing in one sense. But the moment we take what lawyers write in their court submissions and brand it as a separate type of writing, we doom its practitioners to lose sight of what they are really doi...
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