In an era of globalised law firms serving globalised clients engaged in cross-border transactions, and cross-border disputes, is there an accepted standard for ‘good’ legal writing and drafting?  Lawyers draft legal correspondence, memoranda, briefs, proposed legislation, regulatory commentary, speeches and many other documents. Is there a global benchmark for quality drafting? How (and by whom) is ‘good’ legal writing taught? Does it fall to law schools to find space in increasingly crowded curricula to teach the basics, or is the profession meant to devote scarce learning and development resources to the task?