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Categories: Dear 1L, Dear 2L, Legal Writing
By Year: 2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021
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Dear Legal Writer, We’ve all been there: The brief is done, but it’s several pages too long. You’ve got a few hours to cut it before the filing deadline, and you can’t afford to lose substance.
What’s your first move?
Try my P-E-N approach. It kills the culprits behind 3 biggies behind empty words:
Dear 1L, I was shocked when I learned how WIDELY the grading curves vary among U.S. law schools.
— A handful of top schools are entirely pass/fail, and at the T14s I’m aware of, no one really gets below a B.
— Yet at many other schools, a large % of students fail or lose scholarships after 1L fall. The “average” is B- or even a C.
Dear 1L, Hi. I hope you are ok. Everyone seems to be in some state of reeling right now, with fall grades coming in.
If you didn’t get what you’d hoped for, please know there’s nothing wrong with you, and you are not some sort of screw up.
—> What happened is you got screwed by a brutal curve.