You can find some helpful legal writing and style resources online. But like everything online, consider the source! And always check with the Clerk of Court to find out if there are any guides specific to that court.
Only if you follow an approved and respected writing and style authority!
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The reference librarians at the Law Library of Congress offered suggestions and helpful tips on their blog at "Legal Drafting: A Beginner's Guide".
The Federal Judicial Center has made the 2013 version of their handbook, Judicial Writing Manual: A Pocket Guide for Judges, available to the public online.
The Legal Writing Prof Blog, part of the Law Professor Blogs Network, features tips from legal writing professors across the country.
The Legal Writing Institute is a non-profit whose purpose is to exchange ideas about legal writing and to provide a forum for research and scholarship about legal writing and legal analysis. Membership is free.
Exercises from Legal Writing in Plain English by Bryan Garner are available for free courtesy of the University of Chicago Press.
The Association of Legal Writing Directors (ALWD) has many resources available on its website, including a companion website to the ALWD Guide to Legal Citation.
In an article for the ABA's Law Journal online, Bryan Garner instructs on which words to immediately ax from your legal writing.
