James C. Raymond, Ph.D.

Seminars in Legal Writing and Reasoning

Professor Emeritus, the University of Alabama, former editor of College English;

President, The International Instute for Legal Writing + Reasoning.

Author of :

Literacy as Human Problem;
Writing (Is an Unnatural Act);
English as a Discipline: or, Is There a Plot in this Play;
Moves Writers Make;
Clear Understandings: A Guide to Legal Writing (with Ronald L. Goldfarb);

and articles in the Pepperdine Law Review, the Alabama Law Review, The Judicial Review: Journal of the Judicial Commission of New South Wales.

Prof. Raymond has lectured on legal writing in Australia, Canada, England, Ethiopia, Guyana, India, Jamaica, Malaysia, Malawi, Mauritius, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, the People’s Republic of China, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands, St. Lucia, Singapore, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, the U.S., Zambia, Zimbabwe, and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.

Professor Raymond’s courses are not just about editing legal documents after they are written. He has developed a fundamentally new approach to identifying, arranging, contextualizing, and analyzing issues.

As a result, judges and lawyers produce better judgments and pleadings in less time—eliminating jargon, irrelevant details, poor organization, fuzzy reasoning, costly mistakes, and strategic errors that result in appealable error or justice denied.