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Judicature

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Bolch Judicial Institute
Duke Law School

Joseph Kimble is an emeritus professor at WMU–Cooley Law School. He is senior editor of The Scribes Journal of Legal Writing, the editor of the Plain Language column in the Michigan Bar Journal, and the author of three books and many articles on legal writing (not to mention a children’s book). He served as drafting consultant on the projects to restyle the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Federal Rules of Evidence. Follow him on Twitter @ProfJoeKimble.

Written by Joseph Kimble

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What’s With the Repetitious Citing? (PDF)

Vol. 108 No. 3 (2025) | Problem-Solving Courts
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Lead into quotations with substance (PDF)

Vol. 108 No. 2 (2024) | Judges Under Siege?
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Give Bullet Points a Try (PDF)

Vol. 108 No. 1 (2024) | Harnessing AI for Justice
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Add punch with an extra-short sentence (or a fragment) (PDF)

Vol. 107 No. 3 (2024) | Justitia
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Redrafting All the Federal Court Rules: A 30-Year Odyssey

Vol. 107 No. 3 (2024) | Justitia
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Minimize prepositional phrases. Question every of. (Part 2, PDF)

Vol. 107 No. 2 (2023) | Generative AI in the Courts
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Minimize prepositional phrases. Question every of. (Part 1; PDF)

Vol. 107 No. 1 (2023) | Toward Fairer, Quicker, Cheaper Litigation
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The Case for Contractions (PDF)

Vol. 106 No. 3 (2023) | Forging New Trails
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Taking aim (again) at multiword prepositions (PDF)

Vol. 106 No. 2 (2022) | Losing faith?
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Another kick at dates and procedural detail (PDF)

Vol. 103 No. 1 (2019) | Navigating Rough Seas
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The Doctrine of the Last Antecedent, the Example in Barnhart, and Why Both Are Weak

Vol. 99 No. 2 (2015) | The Mass-Tort MDL Vortex
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The Wonderfully Versatile Em-Dash (PDF)

Vol. 106 No. 1 (2022) | Necessarily Engaged