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Writing Tip of the Week: Commas with Introductory Clauses

11 Apr 2011, 12:32 pm by Writing Clinic

You should also use a comma when you begin a sentence with a short prepositional phrase (fewer than four words) or a single transitional word.In Bloodsaw, the court recognized non-consensual medical testing as a “basic” invasion of privacy.However, the plaintiff did not provide any evidence of bad faith.Therefore, the legislature did not intend for the statute to cover access to websites.For more information, see Anne Enquist & Laurel Currie Oates, Just Writing 213-15 (3d… [read post]

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Writing Tip of the Week: Who or Whom?

9 Apr 2012, 6:56 pm by Writing Clinic

For more information, see Anne Enquist & Laurel Currie Oates, Just Writing 312-13 (3d ed. 2009); Laurel Currie Oates & Anne Enquist, The Legal Writing Handbook 778-79 (5th ed. 2010); and C. [read post]

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Writing Tip of the Week: Use the Serial Comma

20 Sep 2010, 1:33 pm by Writing Clinic

For more information, see Anne Enquist and Laurel Currie Oates, Just Writing 224-26 (3d ed. 2009); Laurel Currie Oates & Anne Enquist, The Legal Writing Handbook 768-69 (4th ed. 2006); and Lawmanac—Clickable Help for Legal Writers, “Punctuation, Capitalization & Typeface” (follow “Comma” hyperlink; then follow ”Joining-Serial Comma Rule” hyperlink) (C. [read post]

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Writing Tip of the Week: Use the Active Voice

10 Sep 2012, 2:15 pm by Writing Clinic

For further information on passive voice, see Anne Enquist & Laurel Currie Oates, Just Writing 69-73 (3d ed. 2009); Laurel Currie Oates & Anne Enquist, The Legal Writing Handbook 176-78, 513-18 (5th ed. 2010); and C. [read post]

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Writing Tip of the Week: Its Versus It's

30 Aug 2011, 11:26 am by Writing Clinic

” For more information, see Anne Enquist & Laurel Currie Oates, Just Writing 108-09, 238, 310 (3d ed. 2009); Laurel Currie Oates & Anne Enquist, The Legal Writing Handbook 680, 775 (5th ed. 2010); and Lawmanac—Clickable Help for Legal Writers, “Punctuation, Capitalization & Typeface” (follow “Apostrophe” hyperlink; then follow “Contractions” hyperlink) (C. [read post]

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Writing Tip of the Week: Use the Active Voice

8 Sep 2011, 1:34 pm by Writing Clinic

Active voice: Every week, the company shredded and discarded all confidential material.For further information on passive voice, see Anne Enquist & Laurel Currie Oates, Just Writing 69-73 (3d ed. 2009); Laurel Currie Oates & Anne Enquist, The Legal Writing Handbook 176-78, 513-18 (5th ed. 2010); and C. [read post]

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Writing Tip of the Week: Use the Serial Comma

3 Oct 2011, 12:23 pm by Writing Clinic

For more information, see Anne Enquist and Laurel Currie Oates, Just Writing 224-26 (3d ed. 2009); Laurel Currie Oates & Anne Enquist, The Legal Writing Handbook 662-64 (5th ed. 2010); and Lawmanac—Clickable Help for Legal Writers, “Punctuation, Capitalization & Typeface” (follow “Comma” hyperlink; then follow ”Joining-Serial Comma Rule” hyperlink) (C. [read post]

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Writing Tip of the Week: Commas with Introductory Clauses

26 Sep 2011, 2:36 pm by Writing Clinic

For more information, see Anne Enquist & Laurel Currie Oates, Just Writing 213-15 (3d ed. 2009); Laurel Currie Oates & Anne Enquist, The Legal Writing Handbook 653-55 (5th ed. 2010); and Lawmanac—Clickable Help for Legal Writers, “Punctuation, Capitalization & Typeface” (follow “Comma” hyperlink; then follow “Setting Off Introductory Clauses or Phrases” hyperlink) (C. [read post]

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Writing Tip of the Week: Use the Active Voice

30 Aug 2010, 1:17 pm by Writing Clinic

For further information on passive voice, see Anne Enquist & Laurel Currie Oates, Just Writing 69-73 (3d ed. 2009); Laurel Currie Oates & Anne Enquist, The Legal Writing Handbook 617-21 (4th ed. 2006); and C. [read post]

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Writing Tip of the Week: Avoid Nominalizations--Uncover the Buried Verbs

20 Feb 2012, 12:00 pm by Writing Clinic

(10 words; active voice; stronger verb—“stored” instead of “was”)Nominalization: An agreement was made by the parties to reach a decision by Friday. (13 words; passive voice; weak verb)Better: The parties agreed to decide by Friday. (7 words; active voice; stronger verbs—“agreed” and “decide”) Nominalization: The intention of Congress was for the interpretation of the statute to be made broadly by the courts. (18 words; passive voice;… [read post]

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Writing Tip of the Week: Its v. It's

8 Sep 2010, 6:54 pm by Writing Clinic

”For more information, see Anne Enquist & Laurel Currie Oates, Just Writing 108-09, 238, 310 (3d ed. 2009); Laurel Currie Oates & Anne Enquist, The Legal Writing Handbook 784-85, 885 (4th ed. 2006); and Lawmanac—Clickable Help for Legal Writers, “Punctuation, Capitalization & Typeface” (follow “Apostrophe” hyperlink; then follow “Contractions” hyperlink) (C. [read post]

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CA11: No qualified immunity for Tasering an unarmed man in a tree to get him out

2 Mar 2012, 5:55 am

Curry, 2012 U.S. [read post]

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FBI Gets OK To Inspect Cop-Filmer’s Phone

8 Jun 2012, 9:02 pm

Rubino ordered a female officer, Nikki Curry, to snatch the cellphone from Gondola’s bra. [read post]

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"Senate braces for possible filibuster over judicial nominee; Democrats need at least seven Republicans to cross party lines in order to advance the nomination process of Goodwin Liu, a UC Berkeley law professor"

18 May 2011, 9:34 pm

" And Tom Curry of MSNBC has a report headlined "How's Obama doing on court vacancies? [read post]