Beginning with the idea of law as discourse, this essay examines the ways in which legal method is gendered. Texts, such as
affidavits and court forms, and local ‘mundane’ practices are part of the production and affirmation of the law as a producer
of truth. A possible methodology for exploring legal method, ‘legal ethnography,’ is introduced as a means by which wemight
explicate how legal method works to support and reify legal discourse, in the process silencing the voices of women. The essay
also explores how legal method comes to be accepted as a ‘tool of the trade’ by lawyers, who then use it to translate the
primary narrative of the client into a cause of action that is comprehensible to lawyers, judges, and other actors in the
legal system. Finally, the limitations of the proposed methodology are considered.