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David Fine, a partner in K&L Gates in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, sees it this way: “What happens is a few people do it, and other people look at it, and think that’s what you are supposed to do. So-and-so filed a 'Motion' with a capital ‘M,’ seeking to dismiss the 'Complaint,' with a capital ‘C.’ There’s no reason for it.”
August 16, 2019 at 10:24 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Texas Lawyer
Do lawyers love the shift key? Have a heart for big letters?
Anyone who reads court documents enough might get the impression that attorneys think that grammatical rules, which only call on capital letters for the beginning of sentences and proper nouns, just do not apply to legal prose.
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