Helpful Tips for Drafting Your Brief

Briefs and Memos are vital tools that attorneys use to present their arguments, research, and analysis to other attorneys or courts.  Because of this, making sure your brief or memo is formatted correctly and clearly is important in conveying your message.  This guide will feature a few tips that will make the editing process easier to handle and understand.

This guide will focus on three specific practical tips; keyboard shortcuts, creating a table of contents, and creating a table of authorities.  While the focus is practical, if you want to learn more about legal writing in general below are some books you can find in the library: