Lawyer Skills

The office holiday party is here, threatening to send your anxiety into new realms of oh-by-golly, and Bull Garlington is going to hold your hand the whole time.

Get to the Point! The reason lawyers procrastinate about writing projects, suggests Teddy Snyder, is that we're afraid to be stupid. Here's how to get over it.

Get to the Point! AI, LM, LLM: Teddy Snyder reminds us that one abbreviation can refer to a multitude of things. Context matters.

Teddy Snyder | Maybe you thought opinions that relied on grammar were outliers. Not so. Three recent cases where courts based their opinions on rules of grammar.

Bull Garlington explains the ways a daily poetry practice improves legal writing, emotional intelligence, and critical thinking.

Teddy Snyder | Like the words “verbiage” and “expansive”, “bemused” has apparently lost its meaning through misuse.

If we are expected to learn the practice of law through a series of Teams and Zoom logins, what kind of lawyers will we become? Attorney Diego Rosette makes the case for showing up in the Zoom era. I attended law school in the middle of the Zoom ...

Tatia Gordon-Troy | Lawyers write books to build their reputations, start side hustles or share wisdom in a memoir. Whatever your reason, here are book- writing tips for getting started on penning that tome.

Analog Attorney | Finding the perfect pencil and the perfect pen might change your note-taking game.

Teddy Snyder | Does it feel like the players in your case are acting without rhyme or reason? Like Milo in 'The Phantom Tollbooth,' your job as a lawyer is to restore good decision-making and rational behavior.