Last time, we covered strategies for making your legal writing more credible. In future installments, I’ll cover specific legal writing strategies in more detail. The substantive disconnects between advocate and decisionmaker should be enough to convince you that clear legal writing is a necessity. A judge scanning those headings immediately understands the case: what happened, what legal standards apply, and what relief the plaintiff seeks. Certainly, your legal writing professor told you that you should always start with your strongest argument.