Making Your Point: A Practical Guide to Persuasive Legal Writing

Extracting pieces from four years of persuasive legal-writing columns featured in the New Jersey Law Journal, this compilation acts as a writer’s workshop by examining the typical mistakes writers make and the reasons they make them. Providing a complete legal-writing strategy—from forming proper composition and credibility to injecting perspective, emphasis, and flow—this collection pairs empirical writing training with end-of-column exercises to cement the lessons’ messages.