by Katie | Apr 17, 2015 | Disability, Law
Image Alt-Text: Photograph of a golden jellyfish swimming on a bright blue background. Image via Laura Collins Britton, lcbritton.com. Did you know that being a person with psychiatrical disabilities (PPD) is annoying? OH WAIT. Let me rephrase. Did you know that the...
by Katie | Mar 17, 2013 | Law, Teaching
This past week, I was lucky enough to participate in the Law and Rhetoric Colloquium at Stetson University College of Law, put together by the inimitable Professor Kirsten K. Davis. Below is the announcement of the Colloquium, which includes a picture of the...
by Katie | Nov 17, 2012 | Law, Teaching
At the beginning of every school year, my legal writing students face a double, daunting challenge: to learn to write about a topic they are unfamiliar with (the law) in a dialect that they are unfamiliar with (legal discourse). They go bananas when I tell them they...
by Katie | Oct 20, 2011 | Law, Teaching
Lawyers sometimes allow legalese to infect their writing—even their email signatures. Setting aside the implications* of this sort of email signature, I wanted to make a suggestion to all lawyers out there: please remove the obfuscating legalese from your “do...
by Katie | Aug 16, 2011 | Law, Teaching
As surprising as it is, the class action law suit against New York Law School seems to fit right in with the recent trend of criticizing law schools for misrepresenting (1) scholarships, (2) grads’ employment rates, (3) average grads’ salaries, and (4) any...
by Katie | Aug 14, 2011 | Law, Teaching
I couldn’t resist: Unfortunately, the Marbury v. Madison word cloud wasn’t nearly as fun as the Clinton speech in my last post. “Commission,” right in the middle, is kind of a bummer for such a transformative case. Yes, the case is about a...
