Brief writing is so hemmed in with picayune rules, it’s no wonder lawyers want to bust loose now and then. Required sections, word limits, margin width and font size — not much is left to the imagination.
Perhaps fed up with all the rules, some lawyers have gotten creative. In 2011, appellate lawyer David Holman of the Holman Law Firm filed a motion asking the Texas Supreme Court to rehear its denial of a petition for review in Mabon Ltd. v. Afri-Carib Enterprises Inc. Confronting the problem facing all such movants — the first effort at persuasion fell flat — Holman devised a novel solution.
