Early reviews of Elegant Legal Writing
Elegant Legal Writing has only been published for three weeks, but it has received rave reviews throughout the legal profession.
Elegant Legal Writing was published three weeks ago, and I’ve been astonished by the buzz it has generated and how well it has been received by people across the legal profession and beyond. I’ve heard from readers around the world (including Canada, Czechia, Saudi Arabia, India, and Australia), and for awhile, the book was even outselling the Bluebook citation manual on Amazon.
I’d like to sustain its momentum, so I’m asking friends old and new to consider writing an Amazon review of the book and sharing it with their networks.
Some of the notes, social media posts, and reviews I’ve seen are collected in the galleries below. Thank you for helping me spread the word about a book that can make a big difference in people’s careers and lighten our profession’s collective reading burden by making lucid, straightforward legal writing the norm rather than the exception.
Ryan McCarl is a founding partner of Rushing McCarl LLP, author of Elegant Legal Writing (U. Cal. Press 2024), and adjunct professor at Loyola Law School. For more writing tips, subscribe to the Elegant Legal Writing newsletter and follow Ryan on LinkedIn. McCarl’s book is now available on Amazon at bit.ly/elw-book.
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Would you be willing to send me a reviewer's copy so I can write a review on Amazon as a Pro Se Plaintiff in Arapahoe County District Court case #2025CV161, a Motion to Vacate an Award of Arbitration Procured by Fraud and Undue Means and in case #2025CV31315 in which Armstrong Steel sued me for defamation because I have been blogging about them on my Substack account and on ArmstrongSuedMe Facebook page? I filed a motion in each case to consolidate both and each judge on July 14, 2025 mailed orders giving Armstrong Steel 21 days to reply and then granting me 7 days after that to reply so I'm am up against a hard deadline.
I sent you an email with the various court documents I've managed to file so far and survive the deadly summary judgement.
Feel free to blog about my writing style, the errors in presenting my case if there are any, and how a pro se party has managed to comply with judges orders to date.
My Anti SLAPP motion is currently under review.
Thank you in advance.