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Ryan McCarl is the author of Elegant Legal Writing (U. Cal. Press 2024), a founding partner at business litigation firm Rushing McCarl LLP, and an adjunct professor at LMU Loyola Law School. Mr. McCarl previously served as an AI Law and Policy research fellow at the UCLA School of Law, where he taught Advanced Legal Writing.

Mr. McCarl has given talks about legal writing, appellate advocacy, and litigation strategy to audiences including the ABA Litigation Section and the State of Texas Office of the Attorney General.

Before co-founding Rushing McCarl LLP, Mr. McCarl clerked for the Honorable David M. Ebel on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, worked as a litigator at WilmerHale and Hueston Hennigan, and founded an educ
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Litigators should think like teachers

Judges can be persuaded only by arguments they understand. A litigator’s first job, therefore, is to chart a path through the law’s complexity, helping the judge analyze the issue correctly and reach the preferred conclusion. That requires lawyers to think like teachers.

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A strong litigation brief teaches the legal rules, facts, and analytical steps needed to

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