Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! In a two-part episode, we discuss how organization is what makes legal writing usable and trustworthy -- allowing judges, supervisors, and clients to follow your reasoning and accept your conclusions. Together with Legal Writing professor and Law School Toolbox tutor Mary Fran Richardson, we cover five essential tips for keeping your legal writing clean and well organized.

In this episode we discuss:

Planning and outlining before you write
Avoiding conclusory analysis
Utilizing headers as signposts for your reader
Organizing your paragraphs logically
Writing simple, focused, and purposeful sentences
How to write strong topic sentences

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546: 5 Tips for Keeping Your Legal Writing Organized (Part 2)

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