Judges to lawyers: 'Short, declarative sentences, please'

Judges to lawyers: 'Subject-verb-object. Keep it simple.'

Judges to lawyers: 'Don't pile on a bunch of dependent clauses.'

Judge:

More unsolicited legal-writing advice for the UC Berkeley Law students!

I imagine that in editing their statement, the students correctly spotted their awkward passive construction and the expletive 'There was no' opening here. But they appear to have panicked and simply cut the

Can we talk about UC Berkeley Law? Who is teaching these students to cut the word 'that'?

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Two mistakes here. Does anyone see them?

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Is anything sacred?

“It’s understandable that most lawyers want to keep lawyers off of juries.”

“It’s understandable that most lawyers want to keep lawyers off of juries.”

Pretty sure that Columbia University wanted to “defuse,” not “diffuse,” those Republican lines of attack today, The New York Times!

Ellen is at the Grammar Table Grammar Girl

Soft Drink Law! Only in America . . . .

Which one has more merit (relatively speaking)?

1. The claim that 24 oz. soft-drink cups have only 22 oz. capacity

2. The claim that A&W Vanilla Root Beer cans misleadingly had a picture of a vanilla bean even though the vanilla was

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Thanks for the compliments, doc. Btw I am an ardent believer in plain language. And a loyal student of Ross Guberman & BriefCatch. I try too to free my writing from the heaviness of lawyerisms akina said, herein, therein, hereof, thereof. Nachukia sana.

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Have you run your briefs through it, #appellatetwitter ?

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