January 31, 2009
Lawyers could learn a thing or two from Val Van Brocklin, who argues that “cop talk” hurts officers’ credibility on the stand, probably because nobody can understand what the heck they are talking about. She suggests cops should make up flash cards to help them learn English again.
Make up some flash cards. On one side, [...]
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September 25, 2008
Lawyers have a terrible habit of Overusing Capitalization. This goes for pleadings, discovery requests, briefs, you name it. Exuberant capitalization is the “cop talk” of legal writing.
For those prone to over-capitalization, the Evanston Township, Illinois, high school has a great primer on capitalization. Litigators capitalize some other words, like Plaintiff and Defendant, by convention, but [...]
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