Biography
Jennifer Murphy Romig joined the faculty of Emory University School of Law in 2001. She teaches various writing, research, and advocacy classes as well as professional responsibility. She is the co-author of Legal Literacy and Communication Skills: Working with Law and Lawyers (2020, second edition forthcoming 2025). She is the co-editor of the second edition of The Indigo Book: A Manual of Legal Citation, which is a free and open-access legal citation manual available online.
Romig received her JD in 1998 from the University of Virginia. She practiced law at Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy LLP in Atlanta, where she litigated patent, trademark, and trade secret cases and other commercial matters. She continues to coach and consult with lawyers, legal professionals, and summer associates on legal writing.
Publications
Legal Literacy and Communication Skills: Working with Law and Lawyers, (with Mark Edwin Burge), (2d ed., 2024).
“The Ethics of ChatGPT: A Legal Writing and Ethics Professor’s Perspective,” Emory Legal Studies Research Paper (February 18, 2023).
Founder of the blog Listen Like a Lawyer, listenlikealawyer.com (August 2013 – March 2020).
“Legal Blogging and the Rhetorical Genre of Public Legal Writing,” 12 Legal Comm. & Rhetoric: JALWD (2015).
“Georgia Judges on iPads: Writing for the Screen,” Georgia Bar Journal (Part One April 2015) and (Part Two October 2015).
“6 Tips for Developing an Informal Writing Style,” ABA Student Lawyer (December 2015).
“Common Ground: Five Essential Writing Skills for Litigators and Contract Drafters,” (with Sue Payne), Georgia Bar Journal (October 2013).
“Social Gaming Apps: Teaching Law Students What Communication with an Audience Is—and Isn’t,” 22 Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing 38 (Fall 2013).
“Improving Legal Writing—Quantifiably,” Georgia Bar Journal (August 2012).
“Checklists for Powerful, Efficient Legal Writing,” Georgia Bar Journal (December 2011).
“The Legal Writer’s Checklist Manifesto,” 8 Legal Comm. & Rhetoric: JALWD 93 (2011).
"Teaching Effective Legal Writing Through Annotated PDFs," 23 The Second Draft 28 (Spring 2009).
“'Hooking' Them on Books: Introducing Print Research to First-year Law Students in an Interesting, Stimulating Way," 13 Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing 1 (Winter 2005).