Can Lawyers Write English?

Can legal writing and clear, plain English co-exist peacefully?  Wayne Schiess thinks so, and makes a good case in his blog, Plain Legal Writing. In it, Schiess, the Director of Legal Writing at the Univ. of Texas School of Law, supplies advice, encouragement, and plenty of examples of effective and ineffective legal writing. And as one might hope from an expert in writing well, his posts are a pleasure to read.

Schiess's more un-blog-like publications include various article, and two books, Writing for the Legal Audience and Better Legal Writing.

[Thanks to Howard Bashman's How Appealing for the tip!]