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Contest Judges Find 21 'Exemplars of Good Legal Writing' in 2010

By Bruce Carton

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Via a post by Tony Mauro on the Blog of Legal Times, I see that a website called Green Bag has posted the results of its "Exemplary Legal Writing 2010" contest. Mauro writes that he was one of the unpaid judges for the contest, which sought to identify "selected exemplars of good legal writing from the year just past." (For the record, the first thought that comes to my mind upon hearing of the plight of the unpaid judges who must sift through legal opinions and papers looking for something good is, as Bono put it in his kind-of-puzzling portion of the song "Do They Know It's Christmas?"," ... "Well, tonight thank God it's them, instead of yooooooou!!!"). The unpaid judges found more than a dozen exemplars of good writing from judges, journalists, professors and others, in categories including Opinions for the Court; Concurrences, Dissents, Etc.; Books; Short Articles; Long Articles; News & Editorial; Miscellany. No blog posts made the cut. Mauro notes that one of the winning court opinions involved the baggy pants style of fashion that we've discussed here, but in a different context. In State v. Wiggins, Judge Kevin G. Ross dealt with a case in which...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on January 03, 2011 (boomark / email).