German business executive Sigram Schindler promises he will never write a U.S. Supreme Court brief again.

Schindler is the Foley & Lardner client who insisted last year that partner Howard Shipley file a petition with the Supreme Court almost exactly as he, Schindler, had written it — full of acronyms, tortured sentences and dense patent lingo. The unorthodox style of the brief could have gotten Shipley bounced from the Supreme Court bar.