Once upon a time: storytelling in Learning Resources v. Trump

Every fall, with each new class of 1Ls, we legal writing teachers undertake a strange job. We spend an entire year trying to get students to not write like lawyers, a notoriously dreadful category of writers. In pursuit of that goal, we often target the bad qualities like jargon, legalese, word-wasting phrases, and other legal idiosyncrasies. But I think we’d get better results if we started with…