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  2. Legal writing - Wikipedia

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    Books on legal writing at a law library. Legal writing involves the analysis of fact patterns and presentation of arguments in documents such as legal memoranda and briefs. [1] One form of legal writing involves drafting a balanced analysis of a legal problem or issue. Another form of legal writing is persuasive, and advocates in favor of a ...

  3. Scribes (society) - Wikipedia

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    Scribes—The American Society of Legal Writers—is an organization dedicated to encouraging legal writers and improving legal writing throughout the entire legal community: in court, in the law office, in the publishing house, and in law school. [1] Founded in 1953, Scribes is the oldest organization of its kind.

  4. Legal ghostwriting - Wikipedia

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    The New York County Law Association agreed with the ABA approach to legal ghostwriting in a 2010 ethics opinion paper. In that decision, NYCLA found that “…it is now ethically permissible for an attorney, with the informed consent of his or her client, to play a limited role and prepare pleadings and other submissions for a pro se litigant without disclosing the lawyer’s participation to ...

  5. Table of authorities - Wikipedia

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    The book "Legal Writing" calls the table of authorities "complicated" and says "it takes more time than you might imagine". [ 13 ] To simplify the process further, other applications and plug-ins for word processors provide similar functionality as well as additional features such as automatically finding and marking citations in the document.

  6. CRuPAC - Wikipedia

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    CRuPAC (/ ˈ k r uː p æ k / KROO-pak) is an acronym that generally stands for: Conclusion, Rule, Proof, Application and Conclusion.It functions as a system for organizing a closed legal brief.

  7. Legal English - Wikipedia

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    Legal English, also known as legalese, [1] is a register of English used in legal writing. It differs from day-to-day spoken English in a variety of ways including the use of specialized vocabulary, syntactic constructions, and set phrases such as legal doublets .

  8. Court hand - Wikipedia

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    In Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part 2 (written c.1591), Act 4, scene 2, Dick the Butcher says of Emmanuel, Clerk of Chatham, "He can make Obligations, and write court-hand."; In Charles Dickens's novel Bleak House (1852–3), Lady Dedlock begins a significant subplot by noticing a particular "law hand" on a legal document.

  9. ALWD Guide to Legal Citation - Wikipedia

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    The ALWD Guide to Legal Citation is published as a spiral-bound book as well as an online version. It primarily competes with the Bluebook style, a system developed and still updated by law reviews students at Harvard, Yale, University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia. Citations in the two formats are essentially identical. [1]