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David Ziff
@djsziff
Associate Teaching Professor at @UWSchoolofLaw | legal writing, The Bluebook, rhetoric, @Twins baseball, stare decisis, Washington law, hot takes, &c.
Apr 13, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
A federal district court in North Carolina has ruled that 24 is not "double" 12. Ugh.
Folks, if your court rule says "double spaced," that rule should *not* come with the implied qualifier: "as defined by the people who design Microsoft Word."
But anyway, here goes... 1/ The Court reasons that because most word processing programs have a standard setting for "double" that might not be actually 2x the font size, the Court's rules incorporate that standard. (Note: Does every word processing program use the same spacing for that setting?) 2/ The first issue before the ...
Oct 13, 2020 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
This is a fascinating opinion written by Judge Barrett. Full text of the opinion here: scholar.google.com/scholar_case?c…

These Title VII summary judgment decisions are always interesting because the judge has so much power to decide what does or does not get to a jury. A few notes: 1/ First, just from a writing perspective, look at how Judge Barrett tells the employer's story. The employer's story is a narrative with a focus on facts, actors, and what happened. 2/ According to the Department, Smith was far from a model empl
Jul 9, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
An interesting (and welcome?) update in the 21st edition of The Bluebook: For lawyers, when you're laboring under a word count, the practitioner-focused Bluepages now permit closing up reporter info, e.g., F.Supp.2d instead of F. Supp. 2d, per Rule B6. Because many court systems ... Boo. This example from B10.1 in the 20th edition remains in the 21st, which means Spiller v. Ware (from the 18th and 19th editions) remains absent. #SaveSpillervWare Image
Oct 4, 2018 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Does legal writing follow a boring, lifeless, formula? This tweet and the many responses from lawyers, judges, and professors provide some good answers! I'm not sure if @JudgeDillard's original tweet was just about the dreaded "IRAC" formula, but a few words on that... 1/ A while back, Judge Posner (@Posner_Thoughts) wrote a book in which he critiqued IRAC, legal writing profs generally, The Bluebook, and moore. Prof. Dorf (@dorfonlaw) defended the writing profs and IRAC (though not The Bluebook!). I wrote about it here: ziffblog.wordpress.com/2016/10/03/jud… 2/