{"id":537,"date":"2018-09-05T20:23:12","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T00:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/?p=537"},"modified":"2018-09-20T14:40:25","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T18:40:25","slug":"consultant-news-legal-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/2018\/09\/05\/consultant-news-legal-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Consultant News: Legal Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/files\/2018\/09\/NYSBA-Journal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-538\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/files\/2018\/09\/NYSBA-Journal-300x94.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"341\" height=\"107\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/files\/2018\/09\/NYSBA-Journal-300x94.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/files\/2018\/09\/NYSBA-Journal-768x240.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/files\/2018\/09\/NYSBA-Journal.jpg 992w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px\" \/><\/a>I enjoy hearing about Writing Consultants who have helped to bring a piece of work to publication. So we all should tip our hats to Rosemarie Ferraro, who assisted Gerald Lebovits, as a judicial intern, with four articles in the <em>New York State Bar Association Journal <\/em>about legal writing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3133629\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Worst Mistakes in Legal Writing, Part I<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3161838\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Worst Mistakes in Legal Writing, Part II<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Legal Writing Exercises, Part V: <a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3078941\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Punctuation<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Legal Writing Exercises, Part VI: <a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3105718\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Punctuation<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Legal writing is one of the hardest transitions of all for first-year law students. Professor Lebovits gives a good deal of valuable advice here, my favorite being &#8220;use the passive voice only when you have good reason to use it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One exception I know personally involves police reporting. I long ago taught Criminal Justice writing to police officers at Indiana University. As I told them &#8220;the passive voice incriminates no one. &#8216;The car was stolen and, according to two witnesses, John Smith was reported nearby&#8217; works far better than &#8216;John Smith stole that car!&#8217; &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you know Rose, congratulate her. She has returned from study abroad and is working in our program now. If she plans to attend law school, I have no doubt that her careful eye for sentence-level details, as well as this publishing experience, would make her first year a success.<\/p>\n<p>Other Writing Consultants, tell me about your work in professional writing and I will share it here with faculty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoy hearing about Writing Consultants who have helped to bring a piece of work to publication. So we all should tip our hats to Rosemarie Ferraro, who assisted Gerald Lebovits, as a judicial intern, with four articles in the New York State Bar Association Journal about legal writing: The Worst Mistakes in Legal Writing, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/2018\/09\/05\/consultant-news-legal-writing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Consultant News: Legal Writing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":589,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2514,87403,87402,2517],"tags":[87404],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annoucements","category-consultant-news","category-legal-writing","category-workplace-writing","tag-program-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcsCNV-8F","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/589"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}