Navigating this Blog

There are countless ways to style legal writing. In this blog, you will find various approaches to legal writing that I have found to be effective. Take it all with a grain of salt.

I hope some of this helps. Good luck!

Links

  Writing Tips
Purdue's Online Writing Lab (OWL)
A Plain English Handbook (SEC)
Plainlanguage.gov
Plain English Campaign (Lots of free guides)
Guide to Grammar and Writing
Froomkin's legal writing tips (Geared to academic writing)
Elements of StyleWilliam Strunk, Jr. (1869–1946)
  Legal Research
Findlaw.com
U.S. Code
Code of Federal Regulations
PACER (Invaluable tool for researching electronically filed documents in federal cases)
Justia (Great for searching E-Files submitted in federal courts)
RECAP (First learn to use PACER, then, be sure to join RECAP to access free PACER documents)
LexisWeb (Free, but limited access to the Lexis database)
LexisOne (Free access to searching case law by keyword, citation, etc.)
ABA Legal Technology Resource Center (Many helpful links)
Duke Law (Good list of free resources)
Georgetown's State Research Guides (Great resource for finding state law)
Wikipedia (Yes, Wikipedia for when you don't know where else to start)
And Google too!