by The Write House | Jan 10, 2023 | Blog
“He who comes into equity must come with clean hands.” The common-law equivalent of this equitable maxim is Ex turpi causa non oritur actio (“Out of a base cause, no action shall arise”). “He who comes into equity must come with clean hands” differs from “He who...
by The Write House | Jun 3, 2018 | Workshop Updates
As lawyers, we must not desert cool common sense in our hot pursuit of common law. Uncommon Law of Learned Writing promotes common sense in legal language. Plain language, which is commonsensical, broadens access to legal documents, thus democratizing the law. No...
by The Write House | May 12, 2017 | Learned Writing, Workshop Updates
Of all those arts in which the wise excel Nature’s chief masterpiece is writing well Write your way to the top 1% of the learned intelligentsia. Listen to Bryan Garner: “Writing is one of the two great skills that will advance your career in law. (The other is people...
by The Write House | May 12, 2017 | Workshop Updates
“The secret ambition of every brief should be to spare the judge the necessity of engaging in any work, mental or physical.” Mortimer Levitan. Brief-Writing Masterclass blends law, linguistics, logic, psychology, rhetoric, and semantics to produce an unparalleled...
by The Write House | Jun 11, 2016 | Briefwriting Masterclass, Workshop Updates
“A brief should be luminous, not voluminous.”- Irvin Taylor Research and write persuasive briefs, submissions, and written addresses. Filter your persuasive-writing prowess through the alembic of The Write House’s astounding and outstanding pedagogy....
