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Mastering Legal Language: A Guide to Clear and Effective Legal Drafting

Destination Articles Blog

Step 4: Read and Analyze Legal Writing Examine various documents to see how experts construct persuasive arguments and structure their cases. Pleadings Clearly state the facts of the case and the legal basis for each claim or defense. Adhere to the court’s specific procedural and formatting rules where the pleading is filed.

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No Longer ‘Bad Luck’ On Board

WA Bar News

The firms maritime partners, Dave Danielson and Val Tollefson, were both instrumental in my professional development, giving me case responsibility early on and providing consistent and thoughtful constructive criticism throughout my years as a young lawyer. My first five years of practice, I litigated in Los Angeles.

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So long, Chevron?: How a Group of New England Fishermen Challenged the Longstanding Chevron Approach.

The Barrister

837 (1984), created a two-part framework for litigation involving congressional statutory law and regulatory agencies that enforce that law. Here, federal court defers to the administrative agency’s permissible construction of the statute. [5] You can access docketed pleadings, briefs, and argument audio recordings and transcripts.