On How to Write (Well)

The title is ironic enough, as I haven’t produced a blog post in a while (I have been writing, rest assured, just not in bloggable form!), but there is a very important new resource — publicly available, and for free — that is useful to all legal writers. In Some Writing Tips, Justice David Stratas sets out some key principles, with abundant examples, for good legal writing:

Legal writing is needlessly long, confusing and hard to read. It needn’t be so. The presentation offers some ideas. It is ideal for law students, law professors, lawyers and judges.

Download it here.

And once you are done with that, have a look at Orwell’s Politics and the English Language (1946).

This content has been updated on May 8, 2026 at 22:34.