Copyblogger gives Hemingway's top five tips for writing well.  Suprisingly (or maybe not) the tips should also improve legal writing.  First, use short sentences.  Second, use short first paragraphs.  Third, use vigorous English.  Fourth, be positive, not negative.  Copyblogger says that Hemingway had only four rules, but he found a fifth that may be most important of all, especially to legal writing. 


Very good advice! 

Tomorrow, tips from George Orwell.