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KATHLEEN DILLON NARKO

2024

Articles

• Keep It Together: Clear Writing Follows Subject-Verb-Object Order, CBA Record 36 (Jan.-Feb. 2024).

2023

Articles

• Do Not Turn Verbs Into Nouns (i.e., Avoid Nominalizations), CBA Record 44 (July-Aug. 2023).

2022

Articles

• Legal Email: 10 Tips for Writing Your Best Email (and Avoiding Your Worst Nightmare), CBA Record, Nov./Dec. 2022, at 36.

• Nota Bene: They/Them/Their: How to Write Clearly with Inclusive Pronouns, CBA Record 44 (May-June 2022).

• Nota Bene: The Power of Pronouns: 5 Years Later, CBA Record, Jan.-Feb. 2022 40.

2021

Articles

• Writing Tips for Junior Attorneys (and Those Who Supervise Them) – Part 2, CBA Record 48 (July-Aug. 2021).

• Communication is Key: Writing Tips for Junior Attorneys (and Those Who Supervise Them), CBA Record 40 (Jan.-Feb. 2021).

2020

Articles

• AI for Legal Writing: The Bots Are Closer Than You Think, CBA Record 40 (July-Aug. 2020).

2019

Articles

• How Do I Look? Design Your Documents for Greater Legibility and Persuasion, CBA Record 38 (Nov.-Dec. 2019).

2018

Articles

• Seeing Through Legalese, CBA Record 50 (Jan. 2018) (reviewing JOSEPH KIMBLE, SEEING THROUGH LEGALESE: MORE ESSAYS ON PLAIN LANGUAGE (2017)).

• Plain Language Master Focuses on Drafting: Seeing Through Legalese, CBA Record 50 (Jan. 2018).

2017

Articles

• They and Ze: The Power of Pronouns, CBA Record 48 (Jan. 2017).

• Inclusion Means Including Us, Too, Federal Lawyer 22 (Jan.-Feb. 2017).

2016

Articles

• Richard Wydick (1937-2016), 30 CBA Record 52 (Sept. 2016).

2014

Articles

• Should You Move Citations to Footnotes?, 28 CBA Record 44 (January 2014).

2012

Articles

• Plain Language Pays, 26 CBA Record 64 (July-August 2012).

Contributions to Books

• From Cooperative Learning to Collaborative Writing in the Legal Writing Classroom, reprinted in Legal Writing Institute, The Monograph Series of the Legal Writing Institute, vol. 2 (2012) (Co-authored by: Clifford S. Zimmerman, and Elizabeth L. Inglehart).

• “Inclusion Means Including Us, Too”—Disability and Diversity in Law Schools, in Institute for Inclusion in the Legal Profession, Iilp Review on The State of Diversity and Inclusion in the Legal Profession (2011).

2010

Articles

• To Split or Not to Split: Judges Posner, Rovner, and Wood Weigh in on Language Change, 24 CBA Record 60 (2010).

• A Second Helping of Illinois Research , 24 CBA Record 53 (January 2010).

2009

Articles

• A Different Practice in Every Port , 23 CBA Record 55 (January 2009).

2008

Articles

• No More “Party of the First Part”: Plain Language Contract Drafting, 22 CBA Record 54 (June/July 2008).

• Oral Argument Tips from Judge Rovner: They Are Listening, 22 CBA Record 54 (April 2008).

• If We Move, Are We Still Married?, 22 CBA Record 51 (Feb./Mar. 2008).

• Teaching Research a New Way, 16 Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research And Writing 118-121 (2008) (Co-authored by: Maurine Berens ).

2007

Articles

• There is No “Easy” Button , 21 CBA Record 69 (June/July 2007).

• What Happens in Vegas…: Lessons from a Legal Writing Conference, 21 CBA Record 54 (April 2007).

• Tell Me a Story: Crafting an Effective Statement of Facts, 21 CBA Record 55 (January 2007).

2006

Articles

• Plain Language for Everyone: Lifting the Fog of Legalese Targets Wide Audience, 20 CBA Record 63 (February/March 2006).

2005

Articles

• Sentences: Short and Sweet, 19 CBA Record 56 (November 2005).

• Is Good Writing Worth the Effort? Ask John Roberts, 19 CBA Record 53 (September 2005).

2004

Articles

• TREAC, the New IRAC - or Why Organization Matters, 18 CBA Record 47 (October 2004).

• Can I Turn This Brief into an Article?: How to Write for Publication, CBA Record (January 2005).

• From Cooperative Learning to Collaborative Writing in the Legal Writing Classroom, Legal Writing: The Journal of The Legal Writing Institute 185-226 (2003) (Co-authored by: Clifford S. Zimmerman, and Elizabeth L. Inglehart).

2001

Articles

• Lawyers Doing Good in Chicago: Five Attorneys Explain How and Why They Serve the Public, 15 CBA Record 28-32 (May 2001) .

2000

Articles

• A Great Law Job Is Not an Oxymoron, 14 CBA Record 42 (2000).