Pens, Precision, Persuasion, and AI: Writing Wisdom from Four of the Court’s Master Stylists

Four Supreme Court giants reveal how story, steel-edged brevity, and relentless clarity can make—or break—your next brief.

When legal writing guru Bryan A. Garner sat down, camera rolling, with four Supreme Court luminaries — Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Antonin Scalia, and Samuel A. Alito Jr. (among others) — his mission was simple: capture, in their own voices, how the highest legal craftsmen think about words. The resulting transcri…