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Legal Clauses, Rewritten with Exclamation Points

Latest from Gregory D. Luce

If your legal writing these days seems dry and not quite ironic, saucy, or epic enough, loosen it up with some exclamation points.

Filed Under: Advice, Legal Writing Tagged With: Drafting, Legal Writing

We’ve Hit the Frickin’ Heyday

Latest from C. Hank Peters

As lawyers, it’s about the time to jump on another linguistic bandwagon that left the hayfield many years ago. That’s how we lawyers frickin’ roll.

Filed Under: Legal Writing Tagged With: Slackers, Slang

The Hidden Legal Power of Fonts and Stuff

Latest from C. Hank Peters

Used properly, these typefaces can quickly underscore any obscure point you are trying so desperately to make in all that textual writing stuff that you do.

Filed Under: Legal Writing Tagged With: awesomeness, fonts, typeface

Use Periods to Totally. Beast. Your. Writing.

Latest from Gregory D. Luce

In the first of several posts during International Legal Writing and Drafting Week, we concentrate on how to beast your legal writing by aggressive use of the period. Totally. Beast.

Filed Under: Featured, Legal Writing Tagged With: Featured, Grammar, Punctuation

Top 3 Powerfully Meaningless Phrases

Latest from C. Hank Peters

We recommend maintaining a stash of powerfully meaningless phrases you can rely on to bolster an argument without really saying anything. Here are our top three.

Filed Under: Legal Writing Tagged With: Drafting, Grammar, Legal Writing

The Art of the Happy Disclaimer

Latest from C. Hank Peters

In response to groundbreaking work from a consortium of life coaches, more and more lawyers are using the “happy” disclaimer, or the “proclaimer” as it is now being called in the profession.

Filed Under: Legal Writing Tagged With: Disclaimers, Document Management, Google, Plagiarism

Verbiate Your Nouns for Legal Shock & Awe

Latest from C. Hank Peters

The verbiating of American legal writing, while the bane of some legal writing instructors, can actually help you win arguments and friends. We’ve got tips on some of the best nouns to verbiate.

Filed Under: Legal Writing Tagged With: Drafting, Legal Writing, Verbs

Spice Up Your Briefs with Subliminal Hashtagging

Latest from Intern No. 57

Although the FCC banned the use of subliminal messages in advertising in the 1970’s, the use of subliminal hashtags in legal briefs remains #A-Okay.

Filed Under: Legal Writing Tagged With: Drafting, Hashtags, Legal Arguments, Microblogging

Pump Up Your Legal Briefs with Yiddish

Latest from C. Hank Peters

Yiddish is a great language to use to convince others that you are right. Here’s how to incorporate it into your legal writing.

Filed Under: Legal Writing Tagged With: Drafting, Foreign Languages, Legal Arguments

Use Doodles to Beef Up Legal Briefs

Latest from C. Hank Peters

Using the doodles you inevitably create during the brief drafting process can beef up your writing and add a little pizzaz

Filed Under: Legal Writing Tagged With: Drafting, Legal Arguments

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