1L Tip Today: Memo Writing

2021Legal Writing
Written By Amanda Haverstick

1L Tip Today

Do you ever feel like you understand an analysis in your head, but you can’t get it down in writing?

Try this:

🔹Speak the explanation aloud. Record yourself. Then transcribe it—verbatim—not making any edits. Don’t let yourself think, just transcribe.

Now you have something on paper, and you can edit from there.

It is SO much easier to edit than to write from scratch.

What tips do you have for 1Ls as they prepare their first objective memo?

Amanda Haverstick
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