Execupundit.com: Board Meeting: Five Minutes. Michael Wade has an excellent post on brevity. Most of us (including lawyers), have an inflated view of our own importance, and the value of what we say. So, it is human nature to mistake length of discourse with quality of discourse. I tell prospective lawyer bloggers this all the time. Say it in as few words as possible. Be brief. Be concise. Your reader will thank you, and they don't really read long posts all the way through anyway. This goes for legal letters and pleadings as well. We have all read long, convoluted, verbose pleadings before. Rather than being persuasive, they are annoying. When in doubt, sit down and shut up.
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January 21, 2011
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In journalism class we learned to use the ABCs (Accuracy, Brevity, and Clarity). It is tough to learn but my clients are very happy when I bore them for less time.
tom o.
Posted by: tom olofsson | January 22, 2011 at 12:59 PM
Sure.
Posted by: Charles Jannace | January 22, 2011 at 09:07 PM
Yup. Well said.
Posted by: Jill | January 31, 2011 at 05:22 AM