Good legal writing is a lot more than simply getting the law right. The year 2025 has been a very busy one for me in terms of drafting legal briefs on some issue or another. This means that not only ...

From the Table of Authorities (Cases) section of appellant's opening brief (left) and the amended appellant's opening brief (right) in Laguna HW, LLC v. Wilson; each lists all the cases filed in that ...

The number of amicus briefs submitted by academics has increased dramatically over the past several decades. In principle, such scholars' briefs should help courts resolve difficult cases by sharing ...

With the support of research assistants Balen Essak-Hernandez LAW ’25 and Courtney Perales LAW ’25, law professor Daniel Loehr filed an amicus brief in a case before the Colorado Supreme Court arguing ...

The Houston Housing Authority is under scrutiny after a housing voucher-related legal brief filed in court included multiple fabricated case citations, with quotes that appeared to have been generated ...

The law firms warn of a "looming threat posed" by Trump's executive order. More than 500 law firms moved to file an amicus brief on Friday in support of Perkins Coie's lawsuit against the Trump ...

In an apparent first, a California state appellate panel has sanctioned a Pacific Palisades lawyer and reported him to the bar for submitting AI-generated fabrications in his opening and reply briefs.

When transphobic lawyers filed court briefs opposing a school district’s transgender-inclusive policies, the lawyers didn’t expect the judge to reject their filing over a series of factual errors that ...