LegalWriter.net
Devoted to law, the business of law, and to enhancing lawyers’ writing skills.
I’m Julius Melnitzer, Legal Journalist, Writing Coach & Media Trainer for Lawyers.
I also help create strategies and story ideas for law firms and legal departments, and I train lawyers to write in plain English that people want to read. I’ve created this site to showcase thoughts and opinions about law and the business of law, as well as providing a resource for law firms, legal departments, and their marketers interested in my services.
What I offer is a unique skill set that will help you take your firm to new levels of clarity, accessibility, and media exposure. With 25 years of experience as a legal affairs journalist, and 17 years of experience as a practicing trial lawyer, my deep understanding of both environments enables me to translate complex legalese into plain yet elegant English. I can produce your content myself; I can also train your lawyers to write in simple English that anyone can understand, and assist in placing and pitching your stories to the media.
Julius Melnitzer was the recipient of The Canadian Online Publishing Awards’ silver medal for Best Investigative Series 2020.
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More Sinister than Just Hatred
Photo by Cottonbro at Pexels By Murray Gottheil | July 11, 2026 I recently wrote an article titled, Hate Everything or Risk the Consequences, in which I lamented that law firms restrict their lawyers’ social medial activity. But then I spoke to Tony Albrecht, who knows a lot about this stuff and I now realize that […]
Dissecting Intangible Assets’ Market Dominance
By Julius Melnitzer | July 9, 2026 A vast spectrum of industries now counts intangible property as a major part of their value — Matthew Zischka Ocean Tomo’s Intangible Asset Market Study for 2025 revealed that intangible assets constituted approximately 92 percent of S&P 500 market capitalization by year’s end. That represents a 75 percentage point shift from […]
‘We are experiencing more calls than usual’ – Why am I always stuck on hold?
Illustration by Drew Shannon By Marcel Strigberger | July 5, 2026 There are three certainties in life: death, taxes and the impossibility of getting a telephone call through to a bank in a reasonable time. Since there is not much more we can do about death or taxes, let me complain about those banks. Actually, […]
Should lawyers be buying their AI lunch?
By Murray Gottheil | July 2, 2026 Frank Ramos, a Miami litigation lawyer, writes intelligently on LinkedIn. Recently, he posted that potential legal clients are moving away from using Google searches, and toward AI, to find lawyers. His conclusion is that lawyers should stop worrying about SEO and start writing intelligent commentary so that AI will […]
Patent Pruning: Aligning Portfolios with Commercial Value
By Julius Melnitzer | June 30, 2026 “Patent pruning aligns a portfolio with its commercial value, ensuring that patents, individually and as a set, still have enough value to justify their ongoing cost.” — Bhupinder Randhawa Patent pruning is the exercise of examining and reviewing a company’s patent portfolio and cutting out patents that no longer […]
Career tip: What to do when the Sunday evening blues start on Friday afternoon
By Marcel Strigberger | June 27, 2026 On my first day of practice, I bought a leather armchair that I fully intended to use forever. Retirement was something that happened to senior partners, disgruntled lawyers, or cranky old judges. Years later, I realized Shakespeare had already mapped it out. As he observed in As You Like It, […]