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Jul. 5, 2022
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Benjamin G. Shatz
Partner
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP
Appellate Law (Certified), Litigation
Email: bshatz@manatt.com
Benjamin is a certified specialist in appellate law who co-chairs the Appellate Practice Group at Manatt in the firm's Los Angeles office. Exceptionally Appealing appears the first Tuesday of the month.
Long ago, Yale Law School Professor Fred Rodell – called the “bad boy of American legal academia” – trenchantly observed: “There are two things wrong with almost all legal writing. One is its style. The other is its content.” Goodbye to Law Reviews, 23 Va. L. Rev. 38 (1936). Rodell never bothered to become a member of any bar, and so never actually practiced law. Had he done so, his criticism of legal style would undoubtedly have led him to further castigate legal ci...
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