Brief rejections damage your reputation as an attorney It’s crucial for lawyers to steer clear of brief rejections in federal court to protect both their clients’ interests and their professional reputation. Rejected briefs not only cause frustrating...
When preparing a legal brief, it’s easy to get caught up in the many small (but vital!) formatting details and end up wasting valuable time — time that you could have spent sharpening your argument. Why legal brief formatting takes so long To dig into why it takes so...
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...
Having helped format nearly 10,000 briefs, we’ve had the opportunity to be exposed to a vast sample of legal writing. One issue we often see in briefs is the incorrect placement of punctuation around parentheses. (This was something that I struggled with when we...
Using your time wisely is one of the most important aspects of brief writing—the more time you can spend on your actual argument, the better it will be, and the greater chance you’ll have to get your argument across to your reader. One of the main goals of...
Whether you’re a solo attorney working on a case by yourself or you have a complete staff and want to speed up the brief writing process, TypeLaw’s AI-driven automated brief formatting and hyperlinking can help you make the brief writing process more...