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The New Lawyer Supplement

May 20, 2009

Writing for Fussy Readers

USC Gould School of Law professor Jean Rosenbluth offers tips on writing.

By Jean Rosenbluth

When I consider my law students' writing in my role as the director of their legal writing program, I feel sympathy and want to help. Their writing needs work, and it's not their fault.

They've dashed through high school and college, being judged almost exclusively on the content of their writing; the mechanics of it have largely been ignored. But when I put on the hat of a supervising attorney and pick...

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