In a recent book review titled “The Legal Writer’s Checklist Manifesto” published in Legal Communication & Rhetoric: JALWD published by the Association of Legal Writing Directors (ALWD), Jennifer Murphy Romig details how Atul Gawande’s book “The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right” is applicable to lawyers in the process of legal writing. In “The Checklist Manifesto,” Gawande discusses the use of checklists in aviation, medicine, and construction.

In her book review, Jennifer Murphy Romig writes that these types of checklists are useful for new lawyers to check their work and internalize common stylistic practices of legal writing as well as for experienced legal writers to check their work efficiently and change bad habits. Jennifer Murphy Romig states that the use of checklists in legal writing extends beyond completing assignments as “process-oriented” checklists could help teams of lawyers work together more efficiently and produce a better written product.