Articles

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Harry Potter, Ruby Slippers and Merlin: Telling the Client's Story Using the Characters and Paradigm of the Archetypal Hero's Journey, Seattle University (2006)
This article hypothesizes that lawyers should consider heroic archetype when strategizing the client's story. The...
 

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Painting With Print: Incorporating concepts of typographic and layout design into the text of legal writing documents, J. ALWD (2004)

This article looks at the science behind what makes words readable and legible. It suggests...

 

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Fiction 101: A Primer For Lawyers On How To Use Fiction Writing (with Brian J. Foley), Rutgers Law Journal (2001)
This article talks about how to build a story in legal writing using fiction-writing concepts...
 

Unpublished Papers

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Conserving the Canvas: reducing the environmental footprint of legal briefs by re-imagining court rules and document design strategies, ExpressO (2009)
This article argues that the current system of court rules needlessly wastes natural resources because...