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On Social Media Culture and the Hellscape of Writing in the Era of New Media

July 18, 2015 by Kaleb Horton 6 Comments

Imagine being hit by a very slow-moving bus. You see it coming. You have time to prepare. There are certain poses you can assume, angles to mitigate the damage, but you don’t quite escape. You still get hit by the bus. Now imagine doing this professionally. Every morning, you go out in that crosswalk and…

Filed Under: Endings Tagged With: social media, writing

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Lawyers, Don’t Do This: SCOTUS Pile Of Words Edition

February 27, 2015 by Bitter Lawyer 4 Comments

Back in December, everyone was all a-twitter when SCOTUS threatened to sanction a lawyer, which basically never happens. It probably should happen more, but you know what a big softie Scalia can be. In the grand tradition of uninformative Supreme Court orders since the beginning of time, the order didn’t really make clear what it…

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7 Easy Steps to Writing an Awesome Brief On-Time and in a Stress-Free Manner

January 17, 2013 by Gregory D. Luce 1 Comment

The hard part of brief-writing made easy. Not really.

Filed Under: Columns, Lawyer Tagged With: briefs, by the numbers, how to write, motions, TN12, writing

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