The Law Library has a wide variety of books to help you with legal writing and analysis. A few suggestions are below. All are located in the Reference Room unless otherwise noted. Linked titles are available online in full-text through West Academic Study Aids.
Browse for more legal writing and analysis books in the Reference Room at call number KF 250.
Academic Legal Writing by 
Clear and Effective Legal Writing by 
Just Memos by 
Just Writing by 
Legal Analysis and Writing by 
Legal Writing and Analysis in a Nutshell by 
Legal Writing from the Ground Up by 
The Legal Writing Handbook by 
Legal Writing in Context by 
Making Law Review by 
Plain English for Lawyers by 
Scholarly Writing for Law Students by 
A Short and Happy Guide to Legal Writing by 
Writing for Law Practice by Guides to Using the Bluebook
Books on Legal Citation
The following are at the Circulation Desk and/or in the Academic Skills collection in the Reference Room (Room 235) unless otherwise noted. Linked titles are available online in full-text through West Academic Study Aids.
ALWD Guide to Legal Citation by 
The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation
Located in Reference and Reserve.
Cite-Checker by 
The Redbook by 
The Supreme Court's Style Guide by 
Understanding and Mastering the Bluebook by
Located on Reserve
User's Guide to the Bluebook by
Located on Reserve and in Ref Study Skills.
Other Resources
Law School students have access to a number of useful tools that can help them in compiling bibliographies, organizing references, and generally assist in formatting papers.
Juris-M (Zotero) is a free tool that is available to download from the Internet. Juris-M automatically identifies content as a book, an article, a web page, etc, and can then organize these sources and provide BlueBook citations to these sources. It is specifically designed to work with legal and multilingual resources.
Both of the following tools are offered through Mullen Library’s website.
EndNote is powerful reference management software that collects, stores and organizes references for books, journal articles, and images. EndNote helps you import references from databases, library catalogs, and websites into a document as you write it and then format your paper according to thousands of styles, including The Bluebook.
RefWorks is a web based bibliography and database manager that allows you to create your own personal database by importing references from text files or online databases and other various sources. You can use these references in writing papers and automatically format the paper and the bibliography in seconds. RefWorks supports The Bluebook. More information on access to RefWorks at CUA is available here.
Of the three tools, Juris-M (Zotero) is probably the most BlueBook friendly.
