Exactly What You Want to Say and Why: Of "Plain Speak"

June 2009

DRI's monthly magazine, For the Defense

We get tips all the time on how to become a better legal writer-there are blogs, books, seminars, columns and e-mail alerts. Most are driven toward the same end, and that end is short, direct "plain speak." Shed the legalese and all of those excessive words, and get to the point.
To get to that point, I often think about how I would say what I need to tell a court in writing. Read More...