by manager6345 | 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 manager6345 | 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 manager6345 | Jun 11, 2016 | Learned Writing, Workshop Updates
Good writing is the most critical and yet the rarest skill in law. Listen to Bryan Garner: “Writing is one of the two great skills that will advance your career in law. (The other is people skills.) If you can write well, you must necessarily do other things...
by manager6345 | Nov 19, 2015 | Blog
This video introduces The Write House’s new book, The Uncommon Law of Learned Writing. The Uncommon Law of Learned Writing encourages and motivates lawyers and nonlawyers alike to prefer plain English to the legalese and verbosity that has besmirched legal...
by manager6345 | Mar 31, 2015 | March 2015 edition, The Write Partner
‘The Write Partner’ assesses, criticizes, or praises the language of selected passages from Nigeria’s leading law reports. Aikhadueki [2014] 15 NWLR (Part 1431) 530- Supreme Court of Nigeria Under Facts, the law reporter begins as follows: The appellant was arraigned...
