Legal Writing Best Practices
Workshop is based on two outstanding texts, copies of which
will be given to each participant.
Lifting the Fog of Legalese
by Joseph Kimble
Legal Writing in Plain English: A Text with Exercises
by Bryan A. Garner
Joseph
Kimble
has taught legal writing for more than 20 years at Thomas Cooley
Law School.
He is editor-in-chief of
The Scribes Journal of Legal
Writing, the longtime editor of the “Plain Language” column in
the Michigan Bar Journal,
the president of the international organization
Clarity, and the drafting
consultant on all federal court rules.
He recently led the work in redrafting the Federal Rules of
Civil Procedure.
Bryan A. Garner
is author of A Dictionary of
Modern Legal Usage and
The Elements of Legal Style, and is editor-in-chief of
Black’s Law Dictionary.
He has taught at the University of Texas School of Law and
Southern Methodist University School of Law.
He is president of LawProse, Inc., a Dallas-based company
that provides writing and drafting seminars to lawyers and judges
across the United States and abroad.
