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LEVEL UP YOUR LEGAL WRITING Techniques and Technology to Supercharge Your Skills, First Edition
Joe Regalia

Unlock the power of legal writing. From drafting memos to honing an appellate brief, Aspen Publishing’s Level Up Your Legal Writing: Techniques and Technology to Supercharge Your Skills goes beyond the basics with highly effective techniques for amplifying your message, animating your narrative, and leveraging AI and tech tools to elevate your craft.

Grounded in more than a decade of research by Joe Regalia, co-founder of Write.law, these tools have been used to transform how law students, paralegals, lawyers, and judges level up their writing style, develop their own authentic voice, connect with their reader, leverage technology, and learn to enjoy the writing process once again—or for the first time. Joe and the Write.law team use these same strategies to train the top legal writers in the world: from Fortune 100 in-house teams to federal trial and appellate courts to the top AmLaw firms and everything in between. And now, this playbook for the best legal writing is available to you. With a forward-thinking, integrated approach to the role of technology readers will be prepared to thrive in today’s rapidly evolving, high-tech legal landscape.

Readers will benefit from:

Complete coverage of legal writing, from rule synthesis and storytelling to the mechanics of writing and advanced rhetorical style
Leveling up the structure, design, and style of legal documents with sample memos, motions, and briefs
Hundreds of examples from an array of leading legal writers that demonstrate each principle and technique
The “how and why” of each technique, so you can make informed choices when using them
A step-by-step guide to the writing process, from brainstorming and outlining to drafting and editing the final product
A focus on using technology efficiently and appropriately throughout the writing process
Chapter-by-chapter Write.law tutorials and exercises intended to help students practice every technique iteratively and interactively

Summary of Contents

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction

Chapter 1. Level Up Your Writing Perspective
Chapter 2. Level Up Your Legal Message
Chapter 3. Level Up Your Legal Stories
Chapter 4. Level Up Your Law
Chapter 5. Level Up Your Persuasion
Chapter 6. Level Up Your Organization
Chapter 7. Level Up Your Style
Chapter 8. Level Up Your Mechanics and Editing
Chapter 9. Level Up Your Writing with Even More Style
Chapter 10. Level Up Your Document Design
Chapter 11. Level Up Your Legal Documents
Chapter 12. Level Up Your Writing Process
Chapter 13. Level Up with Generative AI
Chapter 14. Level Up Today and Tomorrow

Index

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