Vexing judges
Bryan Garner writes in his ABA Journal column that "[t]here's a disconnect between what judges say they want" in briefs "and what lawyers give them."
He offers three reasons to favor the judges' view — "the 'halo effect'", "less is more", and "easy is better".
While Blawgletter agrees with each point
Did you see the piece in the March 2013 issue of ABA Journal by Bryan Garner? The guy who edits Black's Law Dictionary? Author of books on American, legal, and American-legal prosel. He wrote "Why lawyers can't write".
Whoa.
Mr. Garner said the great mass of legal writers think themselves Far Better at pen- and keyboard-wielding than the
Today Blawgletter can't resist giving credit for more than one quote to Douglas E. Abrams, who teaches law at the University of Missouri, the show-me state.
Professor Abrams's piece in the July issue of the Texas Bar Journal — What Great Writers Can Teach Lawyers and Judges — highlights such a Great Many pithy comments
Working with smart, funny, and creative people brings lots of rewards.
This month, one of the smartest, funniest, and most creative people Blawgletter knows (and once had the pleasure of working with) wrote a thought piece on legal blogging — what she calls blawgging. She titled it "If a Blawgger Blawgs in the Forest
Deliberations got it just right last week. Did it ever.
The post — in screaming all caps — touts "THE OTHER DEFINITION OF 'LAW PRACTICE'". It tells of a defense lawyer whose closing went so far off-script that he confounded the jury, the foreperson of which said his argument seemed "almost . .