011: Legal Writing 101
The Law School Toolbox Podcast: Tools for Law Students from 1L to the Bar Exam, and Beyond
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The Performance Test Is What Lawyers Do
I think people sometimes underestimate the importance of legal writing as a skill and just think like, oh, I just have to get through this class. It's like, no, this is what the profession is about. Even if you're going to be a trial lawyer, most of what you do is not standing up in court and giving a closing argument. If you did, you still had to write the closing argument. You might not get to stand up and just say them, but, you know, you're not going at cold. Now, what about science technology majors? Because they're used to writing dry, logical, formulaic papers. They can struggle just because they're not so
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