Practice Blawg » Style http://practiceblawg.com Wed, 16 May 2012 14:26:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Legal Style Guides http://practiceblawg.com/2010/02/legal-style-guides/ http://practiceblawg.com/2010/02/legal-style-guides/#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:44:58 +0000 Nancy Hupp http://practiceblawg.com/?p=1360 To badly hijack a quote from Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, good legal writing style, like pornography, is hard to define, but you know it when you see it.

Attorneys start developing a legal writing style in law school. For most of us, it is awkward at first. Remember IRAC (Issue, Rule, Application, Conclusion)? Not to speak of wedging in legal citations, not just in a proper Bluebook format, but in a manner that doesn’t get in the way of content. How much does one paraphrase a case, quote directly?

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