Bryan Garner’s 2006-2007 interviews with Supreme Court justices on the topic of legal writing can be viewed online as well as read in Scribes Journal of Legal Writing, volume 13. The print transcript has the added benefit of pdf searching …
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So you’re probably not too excited about legal dictionaries. But the library’s gotten in the latest edition (the 3rd) of Garner’s Dictionary of Legal Usage [Reference KF156 .G367 2011], and I’m just geeky enough to want to crack it open. …
The Ohio Supreme Court just released the Supreme Court of Ohio Writing Manual (effective Jan. 1, 2012). It can be found in the same place on the Supreme Court’s website as the previous citation manual, under Clerk of Court and …
The goal of citation is to enable the reader to find the source you’re citing. For academic legal citation, you also need to conform to The Bluebook. There’s no magic bullet for using The Bluebook. You just have to dig …
Recently, the Black Law Student Association (BLSA) hosted two research review sessions that were open to all C|M|Law students. One session was a review of federal legal research and the other covered legal citations. In case you missed the sessions, …
