75 Online Legal-Writing Resources

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Online Legal-Writing Resource List

50 WEBSITES FOR THE SERIOUS LEGAL WRITER
25 FOR THE NOT-SO-SERIOUS LEGAL WRITER
Blogs
1. Adams Drafting by Ken Adams, the authority on drafting legal contracts.
2. Ariana R. Levinson’s Blog, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law at the
University of Kentucky.
3. Disputed Issues. “Controversies in legal research, analysis, and writing.”
4. Fairyland Castle, by Martin Magnusson. “On the language of law and
politics.”
5. Legal Writing Profs Blog, a member of the Law Professor Blogs Network.
6. Set In Style, by Mister Thorne. “Lawyers are authors and law firms are
publishers.”
7. The (New) Legal Writer, by Ray Ward. “A collection of resources for
lawyers and other writers.”
8. Typography for Lawyers, by Matthew Butterick. “Revolutionizing the
effectiveness of legal documents.”
9. Wayne Schiess’s Legal‐Writing Blog, “Making legal writing clear, correct,
direct.”
10. Writing, Clear and Simple, by Roy Jacobsen. “ Offering writing tips to legal
and non‐legal writers alike.”
Citations
11. ALWD Citation Manual
12. AP Stylebook (paid subscription required for access to the full online
edition).
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13. The Bluebook (paid subscription required for access to the full online
edition).
14. CALI, Citation Form for Briefs and Legal Memoranda
15. The Chicago Manual of Style (paid subscription required for access to the
full online edition).
16. Interactive Citation Workstation, Bluebook Exercises, by LexisNexis.
17. Introduction to Basic Legal Citation (online ed. 2010), by Peter W. Martin,
Cornell’s Legal Information Institute.
18. New England School of Law Bluebooking Guide
19. Suffolk University Law School’s Bluebook Guide
20. University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Barger on Legal Writing, Short Form
Citations.
Grammar and Style
21. Paul Brians, Washington State University, Common Errors in English.
22. Garbl’s List of Writing Resources, listed by topic, including Grammar, Style
and Usage, Words, Fat‐Free Writing, and others.
23. Bryan A. Garner, Legal Writing in Plain English, Exercises.
24. Guide to Grammar and Style, Jack Lynch, Rutgers University.
25. Grammar Girl, Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing (Podcast).
26. Marc A. Grinker, Chicago‐Kent College of Law, The Legal Writing
Teaching Assistant: The aw Student’s Guide to Good Writing.
27. HyperGrammar, an electronic grammar course by University of Ottawa.
28. Joseph Kimble, “Writing for Dollars, Writing to Please”.
29. The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL).
30. William Strunk, Elements of Style (the original).

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31. Eugene Volkh, UCLA Law School, “Eschew, Evade, and/or Eradicate
Legaleseʺ (word replacements).
Online Legal Research
32. American Law Sources On‐Line (ALSO!), includes links to search engines
for each State and Territory, Amicus Curiae Briefs, Uniform Laws and Model
Acts, Scholarly Publications, and others.
33. Georgetown University Law Center, Free & Low Cost Legal Research.
34. MegaLaw.com, Legal Research Search Engine.
35. Pace Law School, Free and Low Cost Resources for Legal Research.
36. Thurgood Marshall Law Library, Guide to Legal Research, 2009‐2010 (with
links to PDF versions of the entire Guide).
37. University of Chicago Law School, Legal Research Using the Internet, by
Lyonette Louis‐Jacques.
38. University of Washington School of Law, Introduction to Legal Research on
the World Wide Web
Other Resource Collections
39. University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Barger on Legal Writing.
40. University of Chicago Writing Program, Grammar Resources.
41. University of Maryland School of Law, Legal Writing Resources, Appellate
Advocacy and Brief Writing.
42. University of Washington, Legal & General Writing Resources.

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Plain Language
43. Center for Plain Language, “a nonprofit, U.S. tax‐exempt membership
organization, promotes the use of plain language in the public and private
sectors.”
44. Clarity, a “worldwide lawyersʹ group and interested lay people
campaigning for the use of good, clear language by the legal profession.”
45. Garbl’s Plain Language Resources (part of Garbl’s Writing Center).
46. The Green Bag: An Entertaining Journal of Law
47. Plain Language Action & Information Network
48. Plain Language Association International; and see Articles, Tutorials, and
Web Links by Plain‐Language Specialists page.
49. Plain Language.gov, “Improving communication from the federal
government to the public.” See also, Federal Plain Language Guidelines
and Writing Effective Letters.
50. Scribes: The American Society of Legal Writers
Just-for-Fun Writing, Grammar, & Language Blogs
51. Apostrophe Abuse
52. Banterist: Grammar Cop
53. The “Blog” of Unnecessary Quotation Marks
54. Cake Wrecks
55. The Copy Edits of J. Alfred Proofreader
56. Engrish, Funny Typos, and Bad Grammar
57. Grammar Bit**es
58. Grammar Cop

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59. Grammar Blog: I Get Gerund
60. The Grammar Vandal
61. It’s Your Damned Language
62. Language Log
63. Literally, a Web Log
64. lowercase L
65. Mighty Red Pen
66. Mr. Rewrite
67. The Perplexicon
68. The Punctuator!
69. Red Pen Brigade
70. Red Pen, Inc.
71. SPOGG
72. Terribly Write
73. Throw Grammar From the Train
74. A Walk in the WoRds
75. Words at Work



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Grammar and Style

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Online Legal Research

Other Resource Collections

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