Professor Joseph Regalia Recently Published New Legal Writing Bestseller
Professor Joseph Regalia’s new book is entitled Level Up Your Legal Writing: Techniques and Technology to Supercharge Your Skills. Released by Aspen Publishing, the book description notes readers can ”Unlock the power of legal writing. From drafting memos to honing an appellate brief, Aspen Publishing’s Level Up Your Legal Writing: Techniques and Technology to Supercharge Your Skills goes beyond the basics with highly effective techniques for amplifying your message, animating your narrative, and leveraging AI and tech tools to elevate your craft.”
Professor Regalia says he was inspired to write this book to empower law students and attorneys, and it was a passion project for him over the last seven years. “In the legal writing world, there is a really stratified sense of things,” he shares. “There are some excellent writers at law firms and the Department of Justice, and then there are the other writers. At Boyd Law, one of our superpowers is legal writing, even though some students still feel intimidated by it.”
His goal was to make the book all about empowerment as a comprehensive resource that can stay with law students as they go through their careers. The book includes 300 examples that Professor Regalia pulled from 10,000 documents. “I wanted to make sure that everything I was teaching in the book had a top writer connected to it. The messaging in the book is about making great legal writing accessible, breaking it down step-by-step, and using many examples. Excellent legal writing is within reach, and the chapters deconstruct this to make it a reality.”
Professor Regalia dedicated the book to every law student who has felt they cannot write well. “When I saw a law student or a lawyer who feels this is the end of the world—because it’s so wrapped up in their identity and success—I was inspired to provide a map that students and recent graduates can follow to become confident in legal writing.” He wanted to craft a book that inspires creativity, encourages rhetoric, and creates trust in a manner that puts the lawyer in the pilot’s seat.
The second most prominent ingredient in Professor Regalia’s work is technology, which he says has really been disrupting the legal practice within the last decade. “Generative AI reads, summarizes, and draws insights—in general, it is what lawyers do.” He points to a recent study that reported that less than 20% of lawyers are using this technology; twelve months later, 79% of lawyers are leveraging Generative AI. “It’s here to stay,” Professor Regalia says, “and the challenge is that we don’t treat technology as something separate. At Boyd Law, we have some wonderful technological resources and training. A lot of law schools are not teaching how to ethically, practically, and effectively leverage AI in writing, so the book covers this.”
Professor Regalia’s work reached the number one best-selling legal writing book in the market, and he will be going on an upcoming book tour in the spring. “I never imagined that people would want signed copies of my book!”