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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Strong writing ability is the most important criteria. He can major in anything. He has to be able to write a decent sentence, paragraph, and essay.[/quote]

Law grad here. Pretty much agree with this.  In my experience engineers struggled in law school, but math, econ, and hard science majors did not, for whatever reason. I’m not sure why that is really.  Just anecdotal.  Of the ones in my class who were Law Review (top 10% of class), we came from a mix. Private top 100(Usc, Vanderbilt, Gtown, Syracuse that I can remember), state schools like Wisconsin, UMass, W&M, and SLACS like Bowdoin, Holy Cross, Grinnell, Haverford, F&M.  Those are the ones I can remember. There were 25-30 of us.  PoliSci offered no real advantage.  No major did that I can recall.  [/quote]

Sometime ago i read in here, from a law grad who said "lawyerly writing skill is different".[/quote]

it is too a certain degree. It’s different from creative or narrative writing, to be sure.  Especially contract and will drafting, which tends to be formalistic and stilted.  But a good brief uses the same elements of good writing than any good business writing uses.  Clear and concise are the hallmarks.  If you can write a good history term paper, that can easily transfer to a good legal brief.  A novella, not so much.[/quote]

Maybe a little oddly, computer programming really helped me with my legal writing. My first job was drafting legislation for a state legislature, and that had me leaning on my rudimentary computer programming skills way more than I'd anticipated -- logic, algorithms, writing for an aggressively stupid audience. Both of them later helped my ability to write a decent brief. [/quote]

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