Finished with Prelims and moving to the bracket in First Year Moot Court! Congratulations to T. Dye, M. McCarthy, E. Hunt, A. Snow, A. Hivner, W. Steven’s, S. Malcom, R. Garcia Chavez, S. Davis, K. Slight, J. Drake, O. Cox.

The First Year Competition has reached the quarter finals! Congratulations to W. Horobetz, O. Cox, E. Edrich, E. Hunt, W. Stevens, K. McClain, & A. Rush!

It was great to judge in the First Year Competition today! It’s nearing the end. The semis are set: Anika Rush v. Kelsey McClain and Emily Horobetz v. Olivia Cox. Congratulations!

The First Year Moot Court final is set! Emily Horobetz faces off against Kelsey McClain. Congratulations! The round is Friday at 2:30 in the Historic Courtroom.

Great First Year Moot Court final! Congrats to winner Kelsey McClain and finalist Emily Horobetz! Thanks to Tenn. Supreme Court Justice Kirby, District Court Judge Lipman, and Criminal Court Judge Craft for judging. Congrats to Aaron Romanowski for running a great competition!

One Scalia Sentence. Five Writing Tips. Parallel structure and four more . . . #appellatetwitter #legalwriting

What do you think, Bryan A. Garner and Ross Guberman & BriefCatch? I think the prose here is a bit too frothy.

The beer pun opinion. ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/2…

Admonishing lawyers to write concisely, the British Columbia Supreme Court dismissed a request to extend page limits from 30 to 80. Fair enough. But do judges wonder why so much legal writing is verbose? Take this court's discussion of . . . the virtues of concise writing. 1/

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Advanced started today! Congratulations to first round winners Elam/Porter, Dye/Mays, Hendren/Hunt & Williams/Eikhayyat! See everyone at the Spring Travel Team Information Meeting tomorrow at noon in the Historic Courtroom.

Congratulations to the winners of yesterday’s Advanced Moot Court rounds: Scruggs/Stevens, Kalman/Kirkland, & Williams/Eikhayyat! Good luck in your next rounds!

Only one round tonight in Advanced. Congratulations to winners Hendren/Hunt!

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Great final round of Advanced Moot Court! Thrilled at the huge turnout. Congratulations to Champions Tim Dye and Cooper Mays and finalists Will Stevens and Hannah Scruggs! Stevens/Scruggs took best brief!

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For contrast, this time I asked ChatGPT to write the Kagan opener in the style of Donald Trump. Pretty accurate, eh?

Want to sharpen your facts and procedural history? Four great tips based on D.C. Circuit Judge Millett's new opinion re: a January 6 defendant and the political leanings of the jury pool. She was joined by Judges Katsas and Rao. #legalwriting #appellatetwitter United States Courts