"Effective Monday October 30, 2017: Mandatory electronic filing through TrueFiling begins for the Second District"So now all six Districts are using TrueFiling, as well as the Supremes (for pre-grant filings only right now).
Today's DJ's Moskovitz on Appeals column is titled What do lawyers actually do? This piece continues to explore how lawyers might learn to write better. First issue: Should lawyers attempt to "emulate great writers"? You've probably heard this before: Better to be Hemingway than Joyce or Faulkner! Second issue: Keep focused on your goal, which here is the goal of the reader. Legal writing is not like novel writing, which has goals of entertaining, titillating, educating and provoking, often in a leisurely fashion. A court's reading goals are to figure out how to reach a "just result--with the least time and effort." As for style, while "entertaining" should be out, "interesting" should be in, which can be done by livening up a good factual story and including thoughtful analogies in the argument.
Also, the CAAL has a new webpage here!
Re SCOTUS practice, see: Blocking Amicus Briefs at SCOTUS: A Risky but Not Fatal Maneuver -- It’s a professional courtesy for parties to consent to amicus filings at the certiorari stage. But is that always the right call?
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