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Writing for a trade publication has been quite an interesting experience so far.

At The Daily Evergreen, Lewiston Tribune and Central Kitsap Reporter, I always felt like so much of my job was to find complex subjects and put it in simple terms, or at a sixth-grade level like we were told at the Evergreen.

Writing for the law journal is quite different because you are no longer writing for the general public, but for large firms, most of which have more than 50 lawyers.

Much of my work so far has been looking up legal terms and instead of finding new ways to phrase them, the new goal is understanding the concept enough that I can write a coherent story while leaving the legal terms in place that are well known by our reader base.

For example, I would normally not use words like litgation, attorney, partner, per se or pro bono in a lead before, but in the technical world or writing for lawyers, it’s a little different.

Though I don’t think you can search my name on the blog. Here’s the link to the blog I’ve been constantly writing updates for.

http://legaltimes.typepad.com/

If anyone’s confused, its because the law journal bough the legal times last year, so the legal times is essentially the D.C. version of the law Journal.

Later in the semester, I was told I should be able to write some longer feature for the weekly publications. In the meantime, I am practically in a condensed version of law school, which could pay dividends in the future.

Yay journalism adventures.

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