Vote for For the Innocent in the 2024 Signal Awards!
Jill Barton

Jill Barton

Jill Barton is a law professor and author of three books on legal writing. She is a former appellate judicial clerk and an award-winning journalist for The Associated Press and other news organizations. She currently serves as a professor and the legal writing director at the University of Miami School of Law. Her latest book, The Supreme Guide to Writing, was published by Oxford University Press in September 2024. The book details her findings in a five-year study of Supreme Court opinions.

Follow & Connect
Guest Appearances
September 25, 2024

The Supreme Court is a liberal body–when it comes to legal writing

Jill Barton spent the first decade of her career working as a journalist, with the Associated Press Stylebook always at hand to determine word usage and punctuation choices. But when she became an...