Friday, March 4, 2022

Tips from the past

ABA Journal has Bryan Garner shares brief-writing advice from the late Supreme Court Justice Wiley B. Rutledge
This 'historical interview' draws on Justice Rutledge's article The Appellate Brief, which originally appeared in the April 1942 issue of the ABA Journal.
"Make your briefs clear, concise, honest, balanced, buttressed, convincing and interesting. The last is not least. A dull brief may be good law. An interesting one will make the judge aware of this."