Students: Post Your Papers on SSRN
If you have a scholarly paper written for a class, you can try to get it published in a law review or journal. See the library’s Getting Published Guide for help and advice. In the meantime, or in lieu of …
Category: Legal Writing and Citation
Civility in Brief Writing
Miss Manners would not approve of these government lawyers. The Legal Writing Prof Blog recently posted about a Fourth Circuit case, U.S. v. Venable, in which the court called out a group of lawyers on the disrespectful language they used …
Lexis for MicroSoft Office Now Has Quote & Cite Checking, Table of Authorities Builder
Lexis for Microsoft Office can save a lot of time when writing papers by checking to make sure you used proper Bluebook format, creating a Table of Authorities automatically and checking quotes from cases or other documents. You can also …
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New Ohio Citation Manual: At a Glance Guide Plus Free Class
C|M|LAW legal writing professors Carol Broering-Jacobs and Jaime Bouvier put together an At a Glance Guide, which can help you quickly determine the proper citation and style under the Ohio Supreme Court’s new Supreme Court of Ohio Writing Manual (effective …
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New Circuit Splits Blog
Another split circuit blog started up this November, Circuit Splits. com by Nicholas J. Wagoner. The new blog contains a useful post, How to Research Circuit Splits, which suggests searches for Lexis, Westlaw and Google Scholar. As we have mentioned …
