How often do you bother to confirm the accuracy of a quotation from a case contained in a brief filed by your opposing counsel? Do you check each block or parenthetical quote word for word? Should you? It depends on who your opposing counsel is. For many of my opponents, I do not bother to check because of their reputation for honesty.
There are those few members of our bar whose use of ellipses is an immediate red flag. They are prone to clipping quotes out of context, or deceitfully using ellipses to mislead. A real ignoble litigator will deliberately omit a word or two from inside the quote marks. That grates on me to no end.
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