Should you trust AI with your brief? You’ve probably read the horror stories about lawyers using ChatGPT being sanctioned for submitting briefs citing non-existent cases. With the temptation to use artificial intelligence ever-looming—and AI’s integration...
Efficiency and precision are both vital when crafting a legal brief, but attorneys can get bogged down in the details and end up wasting valuable hours on formatting minutiae. It’s a tricky balance to get right. You need to focus your time on sharpening your...
When writing a legal brief, every word you choose, every section you include, every case you cite, they all have a specific purpose—and that purpose is to be persuasive. Each element of your brief must work hand-in-hand with all the others to create a powerfully...
You don’t have to be a lawyer to understand the significance of applying your signature to a contract. But signatures serve as an essential component of many other types of legal documents, including pleadings, motions, and legal briefs. Whether you’re a lawyer or a...
The purpose of any legal brief is obviously to convince the reader (the court) to adopt your argument. One way to make your argument easier to follow and adopt is by hyperlinking your citations to authority and the record. Courts across the country, at both the State...
