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Anne Ralph

@anneralph

Storyteller, lawyer, professor. #LegalStorytelling, #LegalWriting, litigation, #CivPro, legal ed. Views my own.

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My Outlook email wants me to use “thank you” REALLY OFTEN—a lot more than even I, a person who expresses a lot of gratitude, would choose. Feels like my email is telling me, “You should smile more.”

05.03.2026 15:44 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Sara! I’m so glad you’re OK. big hugs to you.

28.02.2026 01:42 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I mean, it’s not taking my job anytime soon.

22.02.2026 18:45 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

today Word spell-check let me know that “litigation” contains a spelling error—and it can offer me no suggested corrections. Feeling better about AI for sure.

22.02.2026 18:37 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

👀

19.02.2026 22:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Writing is thinking.

It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.

16.02.2026 14:55 👍 2911 🔁 703 💬 61 📌 49

It’s not even a debate is it

11.02.2026 02:39 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

Has #AppellateSky had a good cites-in-footnotes vs cites-in-text debate yet? #LegalWriting

11.02.2026 02:18 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 5 📌 0

Officially “this Whole Foods is playing my jams” years old

09.02.2026 23:35 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Take my money!!

05.02.2026 03:08 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

1) Jane Austen
2) Postcolonial Literature of South Africa
3) Dostoevsky’s Russia
4) Medieval Art & Architecture
5) Aristotle

31.01.2026 16:59 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

Stars: they’re just like us!

29.01.2026 02:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm not so sure about this. Most legal research and legal writing profs I know are working to instill a healthy skepticism into the AI research process. My sense is most students are very cautious about relying on AI results and see how bad they often are.

28.01.2026 18:18 👍 15 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
28.01.2026 18:42 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Blessed are the nodders.

28.01.2026 00:51 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

yikes.

27.01.2026 22:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’ve been making this mistake ALL DAY

27.01.2026 19:31 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’m 1/3 of the way through What We Can Know and looking forward to reading more this weekend!

24.01.2026 00:24 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Been driving for over 30 years and I’m on my third car. I try to go 11 or 12 years per car.

20.01.2026 22:37 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Folks, using alt-text is *not hard* to do. Plus it’s the right thing to do. Do it. (Yes, I’m updating all my class materials for digital accessibility and I just had the pleasure of writing alt-text for an image of Jack McCoy addressing the jury in an episode of “Law & Order”.)

20.01.2026 21:40 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Being able to admit one was wrong is a superpower.

15.01.2026 23:02 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It’s possible the clothes got cuter and one hasn’t changed at all!

13.01.2026 13:22 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Opinion | I’m an AI Power User. It Has No Place in the Classroom. Learning to think for yourself has to come first.

“The classroom is not a space to just pass along information. It is a space where we think together and write together. Without shortcuts. We learn what it means to do the work ourselves.”
www.chronicle.com/article/im-a...

13.01.2026 12:08 👍 12 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1

Ohio State fan here! Witty 😉

11.01.2026 19:19 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This happens a lot in Columbus

08.01.2026 14:12 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That’s the decision we ultimately made.

07.01.2026 13:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

We used to do that. At some point, decision was made that it’s more cost effective to purchase rather than rent every year.

07.01.2026 13:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Our school purchases a basic set for us—we can opt to get the fancy version with our school colors etc, and pay the difference.

07.01.2026 12:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

🧵on getting through “friction” related to writing, and why not to short-circuit the process (i.e. why not to skip the hurdles by using generative AI).

06.01.2026 15:32 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We’re going back to 1996 for this one: ”You’re the smartest nice person I’ve ever met.”

31.12.2025 14:25 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0