You also aren’t sure what to say.

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🔴 PHRASES THAT HAVE LANDED FLAT:

🔻 “I ‘noticed’ that you practice __ law.”

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Monkey see. Monkey do?
Take 4 sentence-snippers to the zoo:

🔪 “there are”

“Four monkeys play at the zoo today.”

—is shorter than—

“There are four monkeys playing at the zoo today.”

It’s a premier law-school admissions consulting firm, and it’s got a popular podcast that’s chock full of helpful tips for pre-law students.

I was thus SO honored when asked to join Spivey pre-L coach Jordana Confino on the podcast.

When I started, I didn’t even know how to “tag” someone. In fact, I didn’t even know it was called a “tag.”

I recall asking someone (who seemed non judgmental):

— “How do you make it so a person’s name lights up in blue bold so they get a notification that I mentioned them?”

I was 47, and I had no clients.

What firm wanted a 47 year-old, BigLaw burn-out with no book of business?

I felt old, useless, unemployable.

I tried to become a law professor, but that failed fast.

Dear Legal Writer,

I wanted to title a post, “do’s & don’ts.” But I had no clue how to make either word plural. So I enlisted my friend, Lindsey Lawton, to help.

Here’s what we found out:

I’m spending the weekend in a final push on the book:

going through the last round of comments from the final proofreader.

A surreal feeling suddenly came over me on this early June morning, and I thought I’d share.

It made me hate legal writing.
It made me never want to write.

Why am I telling you this?

Well, law school grades just came back.
Maybe you bombed writing, too?

Yet no one wants to start working at a firm only to find out it’s a culture mismatch.

You really need to do some detective work first.

Here are 6 markers of firm culture to look for & some ideas for how you might go about uncovering them:

The biggest complaint I hear from associates about legal writing is that the partners are constantly rewriting everything they write.

The result is that associates lack confidence in their legal writing.

Dear Legal Writer,

Here’s everything you need to know:

🔸 To begin, “myriad” means “a countless number of specified things,” (Oxford English Dictionary), or “too many to count.”

I had just returned to my desk after an early orientation meeting and was on the way to the loo, when my phone rang.

“Could you stop by as soon as possible?”

It was a partner. I’ll call him MB.
I was genuinely excited.

Here are 7 sayings that I heard for the first time at a firm.

Learn these today, so you won’t hear them, feel clueless, and be left to wonder.

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🔸 “I forgot how ‘green’ they are.”

It’s called “Dear 1L: Notes to Nurture a New Legal Writer,” and it’s due out June 25, 2024.

🔹 If you read it, you’ll learn:

-What to expect every month of 1L
-How to research & write the 1L fall memo