Tuesday, September 3, 2024

DJ appellate columns today & CMS 18th ed.

Today's DJ has PJ Gilbert's monthly column, titled Short -- In August, when both minds and readers are on vacation, I reflect on the art of brevity in writing and ponder the wisdom of aging.

Today's DJ also has the monthly Exceptionally Appealing column, this one titled Appellate Crash: What we'd miss, about what we'd miss if the state's appellate court computer systems went offline.

Also, LawProse Lesson 437 today has Did you hear about the new Chicago Manual?

The 18th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style has just been published. It’s the most comprehensive style manual ever, and it will answer virtually every question you might have. (Except, that is, for the kinds of legal-style issues that are answered in The Redbook: A Manual of Legal Style, published in its fifth edition in 2023.)