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While I am in my kynetic typography silly season, I couldn’t help but direct your attention to Weird Al’s “Word Crimes” video:

 

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To blog of legalese

“The time has come,” the lawyer said,
“To blog of legalese:
Of headings—and quotes—and citations—
Of orders and decrees—
And why law prose is frightfully dull—
And whether the brief will please.”

In 35 years, progress?

“There are two things wrong with almost all legal writing. One is its style. The other is its content. That, I think about covers the ground.” Fred Rodell, Goodbye to Law Reviews, 23 Va. L. Rev. 38, 38 (1936–1937) “Legal writing by federal judges and the lawyers who appear before them is today generally serviceable, in the sense of being pretty clearly written, pretty careful, businesslike, grammatical.” Richard A. Posner, Legal Writing Today, 8 Scribes J. Leg. Writing 35, 35 (2001–2002) (emphasis in original).