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A Judge Loses Patience with a Verbose Litigator
Friday, November 16, 2012 10:03
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You know what’s embarassing? When a judge takes the time to respond to your motion for a longer brief with by editing part of your brief (pdf) and referring you to The Elements of Legal Style.
A review of the proposed, twenty-nine-page motion’s commencement confirms that a modicum of informed editorial revision easily reduces the motion to twenty-five pages without a reduction in substance.
Oh, snap.
Read “A federal judge demonstrates the value of editing” on Legal Writing Prof Blog (via The Legal Writing Editor).
A Judge Loses Patience with a Verbose Litigator is a post from the law firm marketing blog, Lawyerist.com
2012-11-16 09:43:29
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