Here is a common approach to legal writing: To avoid any potential claim of waiver, every possibly relevant fact together with all conceivably relevant legal concepts must appear somewhere within the four corners of your document. How individual words are strung together to form sentences and how sentences are assembled into paragraphs are mere "cosmetics" or matters of "wordsmithing," which judges don't much care about and clients won't pay for.
December 11, 2012 at 12:00 AM
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“You don’t have a lot of confidence in the substance if the writing is bad.” Chief Justice John G. Roberts
“The more paper you throw at us, the meaner we get, the more irritated and hostile we feel about verbosity, peripheral arguments and long footnotes.” Judge Patricia M. Wald
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