Lawyer Skills

David and Karen Skinner | When you get your to-do list out of your head and into a visual system where everyone can see it, your practice will flourish.

Teddy Snyder | When you find an emphatic auxiliary, a legal double, or a -self pronoun in your writing, give it the necessity test.

Teddy Snyder | Eloquent speakers understand that in every setting, every minute should be informing, perhaps delighting, your audience.

While it is entertaining to explore the links that come up when you Google “RBF,” there is a serious lesson in this for lawyers.

Tips on how to write to keep your readers interested.

Paul Burton | The world is a noisy place. Is it best to just give up and swim in the ocean of distraction? Nope.

Do you get tongue-tied at cocktail parties? Does making small talk at conferences rate somewhere between vacuuming the car and sitting in the front row of a heavy metal concert? Do we have some tips for you!

Paul Burton | You can manage your work or be managed by it. These four tips will keep you in the driver's seat.

Our legal writing skills series continues with a couple of punctuation marks that often trip up lawyers.

Merrilyn Astin Tarlton | Who knows why we do it, but most of us tend to say “yes” to things when we should say "no."