Law Practice
Mar. 5, 2005
Be Brave, Break Laws of Language To Make Your Brief a Page-Turner
Forum Column - By Andrew J. Guilford - It was a dark stormy night as attorney Lynn E. Air pounded out her appellate brief. In that dark night of her soul, she knew how to capture the (left) brains of appellate justices: short paragraphs, short sentences, logical transitions. Avoiding satire. Never generalizing. Using complete sentences. Understanding that prepositions are not words to end sentences with. Knowing foreign words are not apropos.
By Andrew J. Guilford
It was a dark stormy night as attorney Lynn E. Air pounded out her appellate brief.
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