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Nonfiction, Legal Writing, English Composition


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 ...more

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Untangling a summary-judgment rule sentence

In today’s post, I’m going to dissect a convoluted sentence from a summary-judgment brief. The sentence provides a useful example of how attorneys fatigue judges by being insufficiently considerate of their attention. First, a plug for this week’s online workshop:

Strong Sentences workshop

If you find this post helpful, I hope you’ll join me for my Strong Sentences workshop on Thursday, October 1. I

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