Joe Fore
@joefore.bsky.social
Teacher, lawyer, writer, angler, unapologetic Blue Devil | Co-Director, @UVALaw #LegalWriting Program | Founder, Punctuated Law Designs (http://punctuatedlaw.com) | Writing Coach
Reform here is much needed, as hiring has absurdly moved to midway through 1L year.
Jeanne Fromer@jeannefromer.bsky.social · last mo.“We propose that state supreme courts amend their rules of professional conduct to impose a uniform ‘hold open’ date for offers until Oct. 1 of students’ 2L year for 2L summer positions.” @marklemley.bsky.social & I have an op-ed in Bloomberg on early recruiting news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Scott Pelley with @lulugn.bsky.social on being told the President had commented on his firing. (I’m not crying, you’re crying etc)
Oh boy. 9th Cir. sanctions two attorneys for briefs containing multiple nonexistent cases, misattributed quotations, and gross misrepresentations of real cases as a result of undisclosed AI usage who then doubled down and lied when caught. Sanctions in next. cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...
One of my all-time favorites, from a few weeks ago
David Ziff@djsziff.bsky.social · 2mo agoOkay #LegalWriting Sky, a little survey: What's your legal writing "thing" that puts you outside the norm for good legal writers? I really dislike definitional parentheticals to the extent that I think I over-exclude them, a few standard deviations away from normal.
In Baltimore for the Capital Area #legalwriting conference and visited the terrific Maryland Center for History and Culture. One treat: a reproduction of Key’s original, handwritten poem, which shows that Key first wrote “*through* the dawn’s early light” before changing it to “by”
I don't think I've posted about my Punctuated Law site since the old #AppellateTwitter & #legalwriting days. But with July 4th coming up, some folks might be interested in our unique Declaration merch, including adult & kid tees, art prints, and hoodies. punctuatedlaw.myshopify.com/collections/...
I don't think I've posted about my Punctuated Law site since the old #AppellateTwitter & #legalwriting days. But with July 4th coming up, some folks might be interested in our unique Declaration merch, including adult & kid tees, art prints, and hoodies. punctuatedlaw.myshopify.com/collections/...
Seems like a great job! #LegalWriting
Robin Allan@robinallan.bsky.social · 3mo agoLawyers and law profs of Bluesky! The Berkeley Law Legal Research, Writing & Analysis program is hiring! 2 new profs will join a group of 10 faculty for an August start. We take our work and students seriously and have more fun than anyone else in the school. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05371
I watched a webinar that was ostensibly about how law schools can better prep students for using AI. But it was woefully short on details. One partner at a major firm said “We expect new attys to use AI effectively on day 1.” But no mention of any specific use-cases. 1/
A friendly #legalwriting reminder: please don’t turn every long organization name into an acronym/initialism. Here, there’s only one YMCA in the complaint. So just use “YMCA” as the short form; the reader will know what you mean. armedforcesbrewingco.com/wp-content/u...
a police officer is talking to a man in a car and asking if it 's not so funny meow is it .
ALT: a police officer is talking to a man in a car and asking if it 's not so funny meow is it .
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Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social · 3mo agoTypos happen and aren't normally worth clawing at, but Judge O'Connor is violating his oath and arrogating to himself the power to control a parallel federal district court, so I have no choice but to ask: is he a cat?
One of those great things about adulthood: waking up, seeing that your tap water is tinted orange-brown, and realizing, “Welp, that’s today’s project.”
This reminds me of something I heard years ago at one of our many, terrific #legalwriting conferences: “We tend to think that students mainly care about how much we know. But just as often, they want to know how much we care.”
Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3mo ago'The key findings were said to be “surprisingly simple”: “a good student academic experience ultimately comes down to quality teaching, access to in person interaction with teachers and a strong sense of belonging”.' 2/3
Students, if you’re thinking about dropping a note to that teacher or professor about what their class/project/mentorship has meant to you, but you worry it will be cringe or cheesy, let me just tell you they will coast on the fuzzy feelings prompted by that note for months, if not years
Law students should be taking State Constitutional Law. If your law school doesn’t offer it, ask for it.
Matthew Segal@segalmr.bsky.social · 3mo agoI know this isn't a quick fix, particularly in Virginia, but remember: SCOTUS probably isn't riding to the rescue. Rights and liberties increasingly depend on state courts. You can help: *Clerk in state courts! *Practice in state courts! *Try to become a state court judge!
When I was in law school, working for the Justice Department was this prestige career that students dreamed about having someday. Now, Trump has so thoroughly poisoned its reputation that it’s dangling $25K to get people to *consider* jobs that literally thousands of lawyers would have killed for.
The Justice Department Offers America’s Least Employable Lawyers $25,000 to Humiliate Themselves In Public
In response to an ongoing staff shortage, the Trump administration launches a real-world experiment to see how much an attorney’s reputation is worth.
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Interested in a state supreme court clerkship? @statecourtreport.org has a database featuring clerkship opportunities from 25 states and more than 80 justices. We hope it's a good starting point for applicants! statecourtreport.org/state-judici...
State Judicial Clerkship Resource
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I know legal scholars are supposed to stop making legal arguments and just make moral/political ones, but can I get an exception here?
Props to my afternoon #legalwriting students—who managed a very simple, but effective April Fool’s Day prank: precisely swapping their regular seats two that the entire classroom was a mirror image of the normal arrangement. It messed with my brain way more than I could have expected.
Teaching law students the practical skills of lawyering—writing, research, and analysis—is an important job.
Jake Anbinder@jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 4mo agoI think we need an inverse thread where we talk about things that normal intelligent people universally agree upon that are for some reason hot takes within your profession
First time really digging into using AI in oral argument prep, using a couple of different methods, to mixed results. Pros, so far: 1. oral argument questions that I wouldn't necessarily anticipated. Like participating in a decent moot. 2. offered some decent one-liners.
I know it's a lot easier when someone sends you a redline, but really you should know how to compare versions in Word. It's a basic skill in the lawyer toolbox.
1000% agree. Question: What are some other basic Word skills that should be in every lawyer’s toolbox? Asking as a prof teaching great future lawyers. #AppellateSly #LawSky
Deb Golden@debgoldendc.bsky.social · 4mo agoI know it's a lot easier when someone sends you a redline, but really you should know how to compare versions in Word. It's a basic skill in the lawyer toolbox.
When I was growing up in Winter Park, FL (15 minutes from downtown Orlando) in the late 80s/early 90s, there was a 100+-acre orange grove next to the middle school. It’s now a subdivision w/ dozens of million-dollar homes.
Prof. John C. Jeffries Jr. ’73 says #UVALaw classmate Robert S. Mueller III ’73 was “a person of real character and integrity.” @law360.bsky.social
In Their Words: Former Colleagues Remember Robert Mueller - Law360 Pulse
Retired WilmerHale partner and former FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III is being remembered as a tough, principled and capable attorney with tremendous integrity who unflinchingly took on the dauntin...
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