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1 Aug, 2011

A Cool Way to Check Your Brief’s Readability

2019-03-18T18:47:55-05:00August 1st, 2011|Tags: , , , , |

I recently ran across a cool way to check whether my writing is readable. The tip comes from Ross Gubberman's book Point Made: How to Write Like the Nation's Top Advocates. I was unaware that Microsoft Word has a feature that measures the readibility of Word documents. Word generates a readibility report that is based on the [...]

19 Jul, 2011

An Interview with the Legal Writing Pro: Ross Guberman on Writing Style, the Supreme Court, and the Next Project

2019-03-18T18:47:56-05:00July 19th, 2011|Tags: , , , , , |

Ross Guberman is President of Legal Writing Pro, Adjunct Professor at George Washington University Law School, and author of Point Made: How to Write Like the Nation’s Top Advocates. I learned of Ross’s work after reading an essay entitled “Five Ways to Write Like John Roberts.” In the essay, Ross distills five [...]