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2025

    June
    Comma Power:
    A Punctuation Mark With Clout

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    May
    Devilish Details:
    Legal Writing Is Precise Writing

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    April
    Wishful Thinking:
    If the Subjunctive Were Easy

    By Suzanne Rowe
    February/March
    Building Bridges:
    Connecting Islands of Ideas

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    January
    Number Words:
    As Easy as 1, 2, 3

    By Suzanne E. Rowe


2024

    December
    Running On?
    Life Support for Sentences

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    November
    Pairs That Puzzle:
    Verify Your Verbs

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    October
    Which Is That?:
    Restrictions for Clarity

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    August/September
    I’s Issue:
    An Explanation of Professional Pronouns

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    July
    Brevity:
    A Challenge

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    June
    Adjective Order:
    A Quick, Easy Guide

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    May
    Think Different:
    The End of the Adverb?

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    April
    Writing in a New Age:
    Lean on Generative AI but Hang Onto Your Skills and Style

    By Rebekah Hanley
    February/March
    Professional Conversations:
    Talking Before Writing

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    January
    Old-Fashioned Etiquette:
    Responding Thoughtfully and Authentically

    By Suzanne E. Rowe


2023

    December
    Painful Prose:
    The Difficulty of Writing

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    November
    The Legal Writer Writing Reruns:
    A Glance Back and a Look Ahead

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    October
    The Last Step:
    Proofing Documents for Format

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    August/September
    Transparent Transitions:
    Cracking Humpty Dumpty’s Code

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    July
    Hooking the Reader:
    Catching Attention With Case Introductions

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    June
    Pure Sentences:
    Complete Ideas Without Additional Punctuation

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    May
    Conveying Confidence:
    Communicating with Clients

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    April
    Thinking (Again) About Writing:
    The Discipline to Become a Better Writer

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    February/March
    Modifier Madness:
    Marching to Clarity

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    January
    To Mentor and Be Mentored:
    Writing Beyond Hypothetical Clients

    By Sarah Einowski


2022

    December
    Writing on Fumes:
    Out of Altitude, Air Speed and Ideas

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    November
    Pillowcase Talk:
    Insights on New Legal Writers

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    October
    Elemeno:
    Muddling Words in the Middle

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    August/September
    Word by Word:
    Anne Lamott’s Advice on Writing

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    July
    Parks and Recreation:
    Reviewing Grammar in the Great Outdoors

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    June
    P.S. Further Thoughts:
    Insights and Examples Using Reader Input

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    May
    Confusing, Isn't It?:
    Making Sense of Tag Questions

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    April
    Just Don't:
    Absolute Rules for Better Grammar

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    February/March
    Finessing Gendered Pronouns:
    Using the Singular ‘They’ Clearly

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    January
    Tricky Little Phrases:
    They Sound Correct… But Are They?

    By Elizabeth Ruiz Frost


2021

    December
    The Pitch for BriefCatch:
    Give This Virtual Legal Writing Coach a Try

    By Katrina Robinson
    November
    SCOTUS (cleaned up):
    Should Oregon Attorneys Clean Up Quotations?

    By Katrina Robinson and Suzanne E. Rowe
    October
    ‘It Sounds Right’:
    When Homophones Are Wrong

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    August/September
    Sometimes It’s Sometime:
    Know When to Combine, Separate Word Pairs

    By Elizabeth Ruiz Frost
    July
    A Smattering of Ideas:
    A Check-in on My Lifelong Learning Pursuit

    By Elizabeth Ruiz Frost
    June
    Find Your Academic Atmosphere:
    Lifelong Learning for the Joiners and the Loners

    By Elizabeth Ruiz Frost
    May
    Writing that Sings!:
    Imagine the Lessons We Could Learn from Pop Songs

    By Elizabeth Ruiz Frost
    April
    Opposites Attract:
    Context Is Key When Tossing Out Contronyms

    By Elizabeth Ruiz Frost
    February/March
    Beat the Slump:
    Finding Motivation to Write While Working From Home

    By Elizabeth Ruiz Frost
    January
    On the Subject of Subjects:
    Here’s a Concrete Way to Avoid Abstract Writing

    By Elizabeth Ruiz Frost


2020

    December
    Shades of Gray:
    Word Choices Offer Subtle Shifts in Meaning

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    November
    In Her Own Words:
    RGB’s Lessons on Writing and Collegiality

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    October
    It’s Party Time!:
    A Celebration of Good Legal Writing

    By Rebekah Hanley
    August/September
    Intelligence:
    Automation Further Blurs the Line Between ‘Stealing’ and ‘Sharing’

    By Rebekah Hanley
    July
    Tips from a Master Storyteller:
    Good Writing Comes From Hard Work, Stephen King Says

    By Elizabeth Ruiz Frost
    June
    Writing Remotely:
    Lessons about Work and Life During Uncertain Times

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    May
    Want to be a Better Writer? Read!:
    Enjoying Others’ Work Can Improve Your Own

    By Rebekah Hanley
    April
    Better, Smarter, More Efficient:
    Some New-School solutions for Old-School Work

    By Elizabeth Ruiz Frost
    February/March
    Avoiding Awkwardness:
    Parallelism Can Change Both Meaning and Tone

    By Elizabeth Ruiz Frost
    January
    They/Them/Theirs:
    As Language Evolves, Pronouns Leap Forward

    By Suzanne E. Rowe


2019

    December
    Writing in a Digital World:
    Tips for Easing the Transition from Paper Documents

    By Elizabeth Ruiz Frost
    November
    It’s Just a Matter of Time:
    Tips for Improving Your Proofreading Prowess

    By Elizabeth Ruiz Frost
    October
    Being Well While Writing Well:
    Develop a Schedule, Gain Confidence & Embrace Feedback

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    August/September
    Juxtaposing Joys and Jolts:
    Search for Meaning Begins with ‘Jeopardy!’

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    July
    Making Sense of Lists:
    Twists and Turns of a Legal Document Require Better Formatting

    By Elizabeth Ruiz Frost
    June
    Don’t Sell Short on Semicolons:
    Increasing Value in Your Writing Portfolio

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    May
    The Worst Words:
    Bloated Writing Makes My Blood Boil

    By Elizabeth Ruiz Frost
    April
    Reader’s Block:
    Finding Your Focus for the Written Word

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    February/March
    More Bar Talk:
    A Grammarian Walks Into...

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    January
    Irregularity and Other Challenges
    Addressing Tricky Verbs

    By Elizabeth Ruiz Frost


2018

    December
    Avoid Ethical Landmines:
    A Grammarian Walks Into...

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    November
    First Impressions:
    Your Professional Bio is Legal Writing, Too

    By Elizabeth Ruiz Frost
    October
    Reader Response:
    12 Years of Pet Peeves and Curmudgeonly Fun

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    August/September
    Avoid Looking Small:
    Steer Clear of the Words that Weaken Us

    By Elizabeth Ruiz Frost
    July
    Take the Bait:
    Bodacious ‘B’ Words for Brilliant Writing

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    June
    The Error of Extendification:
    When Longer Isn’t Better

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    May
    From Quarks to Galaxies:
    Zoom In and Out to Become a Better Writer

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    April
    Toes, Cakes and Eggcorns:
    Phrases Change, Meanings Stay the Same

    By Elizabeth Ruiz Frost
    February/March
    Make Fewer Mistakes:
    Evolution Doesn't Excuse Word Misuse

    By Elizabeth Ruiz Frost
    January
    An Economical Effect:
    Esquivalience – And Excellent ‘E’ Words

    By Suzanne E. Rowe


2017

    December
    Accepting Critisim with Grace:
    Ignoring Feedback Limits Your Ability to Grow and Improve

    By Elizabeth Ruiz Frost
    November
    Casting the Dice:
    The Definitive Definition of D Words

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    October
    Little Letters:
    How to Say ‘Thanks,’ ‘No, Thanks’ and ‘I’m Sorry’

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    August/September
    Supreme Writing:
    Welcoming Our Newest Justice

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    July
    Avoiding Plagiarism:
    Give Credit Where It’s Due by Taking Careful Notes

    By Elizabeth Ruiz Frost
    June
    The Progressives, Past and Present:
    Don't Leave Your Readers Hanging by Overusing the Wrong Tense

    By Elizabeth Ruiz Frost
    May
    Modifier Fighters:
    Finding and Fixing Misplaced, Squinting and Dangling Modifiers

    By Elizabeth Ruiz Frost
    April
    Nominalizations:
    How to Ruin Perfectly Good Verbs and Adverbs

    By Elizabeth Ruiz Frost
    February/March
    An Exercise Regimen:
    Writing for the New Year

    By Elizabeth Ruiz Frost
    January
    Time Capsule:
    Writing Rules from the Turn of the Century

    By Suzanne E. Rowe


2016

    December
    Beyond Writing:
    Conversations wth the Bench

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    November
    Mind Your Ps:
    Avoiding Miscues

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    October
    Reflections:
    Ten Years with the Legal Writer

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    August/September
    Empty Clichés:
    The Twinkies in Legal Writing

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    July
    Professional Conversations:
    Talking Before Writing

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    June
    Language at Gettysburg:
    A Study of Style

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    May
    E-Communication Etiquette:
    Notes on Electronic Professionalism

    By Elizabeth Ruiz Frost
    April
    Latin in Legal Writing:
    When to Use It, How, and What It Means

    By Elizabeth Ruiz Frost
    February/March
    Confessions:
    The Mistakes Legal Writing Professors Make, and How We Fix Them

    By Elizabeth Ruiz Frost, with Megan McAlpin, Joan Rocklin & Suzanne Rowe
    January
    Number Words:
    As Easy as 1, 2, 3

    By Suzanne E. Rowe


2015

    December
    Hardly Hyperbole:
    How to Handle Hubris

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    November
    Brevity:
    Readers Respond

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    October
    Ready to Write:
    Transferring Writing Skills from Law School to Law Practice

    By Megan McAlpin
    August/September
    Kind Regards and Other Affronts:
    Another Look at Professional Email

    By Elizabeth Ruiz Frost
    July
    Dashes and Dots:
    Decoding Hyphens, Dashes and Ellipses

    By Elizabeth Ruiz Frost
    June
    A Worthwhile Skill:
    The Upside of Diagramming Sentences

    By Elizabeth Ruiz Frost
    May
    Tricky Little Words:
    The Special Team of the Grammar Squad

    By Elizabeth Ruiz Frost
    April
    Brevity: A Challenge
    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    February/March
    Mental Shrinkage:
    The Many Costs of Multitasking

    By Elizabeth Ruiz Frost
    January
    “C” Change:
    Compelling Compliments and Confrontations

    By Suzanne E. Rowe


2014

    December
    Difficult Conversations:
    Talking About Bad Writing

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    November
    Think Different:
    The End of the Adverb?

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    October
    From the Mail Bag:
    Responses to Readers

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    August/September
    Run-on Sentence Outbreak! Examine Emails for Infection
    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    July
    Keep Learning:
    Thinking About Writing, Part II

    By Elizabeth Ruiz Frost
    June
    Avoiding Awkardness:
    Parallels in Grammar and Etiquette

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    May
    Plainish English:
    Write As You Speak, Unless...

    By Elizabeth Ruiz Frost
    April
    Finding a Good Book:
    Why Reading Good Writing Will Make You a Better Writer

    By Megan McAlpin
    February/March
    Verboten:
    Vacuous Verbiage on Valentine’s Day

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    January
    Thinking About Writing:
    The Discipline to Become a Better Writer

    By Suzanne E. Rowe


2013

    December
    Autoantonymns:
    Words That Mean Their Opposites

    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    November
    Why You’ll Never Be a Good Writer:
    And Why You Should Still Keep Trying

    By Megan McAlpin
    October
    Take Note!
    Creating Knowledge Through Notes
    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    August/September
    Wishful Thinking:
    If the Subjunctive Were Easy
    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    July
    Mentoring Legal Writers:
    Overcoming ‘Illusory Superiority’
    By Elizabeth Ruiz Frost
    June
    Breaking the Habits of the Inefficient:
    Procrastination and Writer's Block
    By Elizabeth Ruiz Frost
    May
    Taken to Task:
    Touch Up Your “T” Words
    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    April
    Cutting the Clutter:
    Spring Cleaning for Writing
    By Elizabeth Ruiz Frost
    February/March
    Pure Sentences:
    Punctuation Free
    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    January
    Readers’ Pet Peeves:
    A Brief Collection of Annoyances and Goat-Getters
    By Elizabeth Ruiz Frost


2012

    December
    Future Shock:
    Writing in a Brave New World
    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    November
    A Matter of Style:
    About That Legal Writing
    By Megan McAlpin
    October
    F-Words:
    The First Flames of Fall
    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    August/September
    Happy Punctuation Day!
    Readers’ Haiku Celebration
    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    July
    Adjective Order:
    A Quick, Easy Guide
    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    June
    “G” is for Graft:
    A Gaggle of Great “G” Words
    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    May
    Primer on Pronouns:
    Common Mistakes
    By Elizabeth Frost
    April
    Commas for My Class
    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    February/March
    The Problem with Shall
    By Elizabeth Ruiz Frost
    January
    Right as Rain:
    Remarkable and Revealing “R” Words
    By Suzanne E. Rowe


2011

    December
    Web-based Authorities:
    Reliable Resources for the Wired Writer
    By Elizabeth Ruiz Frost
    November
    Spell Czech:
    Amusing Mistakes Your Computer Won’t Catch
    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    October
    Drawing with Words:
    Creating Clear, Colorful Writing
    By Megan McAlpin
    August/September
    Let the Festivities Begin! National Punctuation Day
    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    July
    Building Bridges:
    Connecting Islands of Ideas
    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    June
    The Formula:
    Becoming — or Hiring — a Capable Legal Writer
    By Rebekah Hanley
    May
    Celebrating Dependence:
    The Joys of Subordinate Clauses
    By Megan McAlpin
    April
    What's Your Point?: Tips for Writing Clearly
    By M.H. Sam Jacobson
    February/March
    Notes on Quotes:
    When and How to Borrow Language
    By Rebekah Hanley
    January
    Painful Prose:
    The Difficulty of Writing
    By Suzanne E. Rowe


2010

    December
    Back to Basics:
    Subjects, Verbs, Complete Sentences and Active Voice
    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    November
    Readers Write:
    Two More Years with Legal Writers
    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    October
    Interesting Eyes:
    Word Choices V
    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    August/September
    Are You Dense? Editing Obtuse Writing
    By M.H. Sam Jacobson
    July
    Which Is That? Restrictions for Clarity
    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    June
    Five Tools for Writing Fixes:
    Stocking the Legal Writer's Toolbox
    By Tenielle Fordyce-Ruff
    May
    Taskus Interruptus:
    Good Writing Requires Concentration
    By M.H. Sam Jacobson
    April
    Conquering the Colon:
    The Adventures of Advanced Punctuation
    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    February/March
    Proper Placement:
    The Humor of Misplaced Modifers
    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    January
    Appalling Etiquette:
    Writing As a Professional
    By Suzanne E. Rowe


2009

    December
    Constructive Criticism:
    A Generous Bonus in Down Economy
    By Rebekah Hanley
    November
    Punctuation You Can Learn to Love: Six Simple Steps to Correct Commas
    By Tenielle Fordyce-Ruff
    October
    Perfect Tenses:
    The Timing of Verbs
    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    August/September
    Lessons from the Magic Kingdom:
    A Legal Writer Reflects on Summer Vacation
    By Rebekah Hanley
    July
    Running On? Life Support for Sentences
    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    June
    Clear or Confusing? When Repetition Works (and Doesn't)
    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    May
    Word Choices IV:
    Too Close for Comfort?
    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    April
    Word Choices III:
    Verb pairs that puzzle
    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    February/March
    Making it Plain:
    In love with legalese?
    By Megan McAlpin
    January
    Resolutions:
    A new writing process for the new year
    By Rebekah Hanley


2008

    December
    A Shopper’s Guide:
    Gifts for your legal writer
    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    November
    Signaling Support:
    Citation to Text
    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    October
    Silencing the Novelist Within:
    Squelching Creative Writing
    By Megan McAlpin
    August/September
    Mea Culpa:
    Mistakes of a Writing Column Writer
    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    July
    Reader-Friendly Transitions:
    Showing the way from here to there
    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    June
    Keep it Simple:
    ‘Short and Sweet’ Brings Clarity to Legal Writing
    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    May
    E-Writing tips:
    4 btr comm
    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    April
    Writing with Oregon Style:
    Gee, What Are We to Do?
    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    February/March
    Problems with Pronouns:
    Replacing Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla
    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    January
    Word Choices II:
    More Pairs that Puzzle
    By Suzanne E. Rowe


2007

    December
    A Parallel Universe:
    Keeping the Grammatical World in Order
    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    November
    Devilish Details:
    Legal Writing is Precise Writing
    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    October
    The Beauty of the Verb:
    Creating a Picture in Every Sentence
    By M. H. Sam Jacobson
    August/September
    Abuse of Discretion:
    Beheadings, Widows and Orphans, Oh My!
    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    July
    Writing with Clarity:
    Finding and Fixing the Passive Voice
    By Megan McAlpin
    June
    Finessing Gender Pronouns:
    When “He” or “She” Just Won't Do
    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    May
    Comma Power:
    A punctuation mark with clout
    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    April
    Word Choices:
    Pairs that Puzzle
    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    February/March
    Three Steps for Removing the Muck in Writing
    By Joan Malmud
    January
    Know Your Nouns:
    Perplexing plurals and possessives
    By Suzanne E. Rowe


2006

    December
    Perfect Proofing:
    10 steps towards error-free documents
    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    November
    Six To Nix:
    Grammar rules to leave behind
    By Suzanne E. Rowe
    October
    Unblocking Writer‘s Block:
    Moving ideas from head to page
    By Suzanne E. Rowe


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