Tuesday, June 23, 2009

LAWYER WRITING RULE ONE

"The deepest learning is the learning that conceals learning"

--Stephen Gillers

Rule Two is: When in doubt refer to Rule One

6 Comments:

At 6:25 AM, June 24, 2009, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Are you going to expound on that "rule", or leave your thoughts "concealed"?

 
At 7:00 AM, June 24, 2009, Blogger UMRBlog said...

It is a plea for simple sentences and precise words. Kind of a followup to my earlier "lawyerspeak" post.

 
At 1:14 PM, June 24, 2009, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) British author.

 
At 2:40 PM, June 24, 2009, Anonymous Anonymous said...

While it is fine to confront friends on their use of "advise", it is like fiddling while Rome burns, in my eyes.

At a time of incredible corruption from top to bottom in our system, standing up to the entrenched "politburo" (to borrow from qce) would be "the road less traveled".

 
At 3:28 PM, June 24, 2009, Blogger UMRBlog said...

False Choice Alert!

You can Rage Against the Machine and use the language correctly at the same time.

TYFCB

 
At 4:02 PM, June 24, 2009, Anonymous Anonymous said...

LOL ... I didn't give a choice .. I said your point was fine, just not most pertinent.

I just thought I'd jump in and ratchet up the relevance.

But I hope you do continue to "rage against the machine" ... which makes you interesting at times, to me at least.

Don't go quiet into that good night ...

 

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