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I put one of Google's top-ranked legal writing articles — 11 Persuasive Legal Writing Tips for Lawyers — to the test. But instead of just giving you my personal opinion, I measured the tips against the gold standard for legal communication: Chapter 2 of the Plain Language ISO (ISO 24495:2).

Some tips are solid. Some need more context. And a few are aimed at entirely the wrong person.

If you want to know what actually makes legal writing work — and why the reader, not the writer, should always come first — this one is for you! 

Do you really need to use legalese as a lawyer? The short answer: no — and this video explains exactly why.

If you are studying Legal English or training to become a lawyer, you may have been taught that legalese is a sign of professional expertise. In this video, I challenge that assumption and explain why using legalese in your legal writing can actually make you less persuasive, less credible, and more vulnerable to legal attack. 

How did I discover how to help lawyers improve their legal writing? In this video, I fully explain and share this with you. I'm sure it'll help you too!

Should lawyers take a legal English exam, or the English proficiency test like Cambridge's CPE?

If you're preparing for an English exam for legal work, this video will help you decide if a legal English exam makes sense for you at all.

I’ve been teaching Legal English and legal writing for over a decade, and I’ve also assessed lawyers’ English during recruitment processes for law firms. This video is based on that experience.

It should be obvious to say that AI is not Editor found in MS Word; however, thinking that AI works like Editor is one of the mistakes that people make when asking AI to proofred their writing. In this video, I explain a little bit more about the type of mistakes you might make when using AI to check you writing and , by doing so, how you might lose control of your message!