Here’s a holiday email that a reader received from another lawyer: Wishing you all the best for the Holidays and a wonderful New Year!This e-mail may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify…
Further, using this term in a brief to refer to a judge in your case is not recommended. In fact it is super-highly unrecommended. The Wall Street Journal reports today that a civil-rights group has filed a bar complaint concerning…
As we have seen, one of the more important legal skills is the ability to get other people to understand what the hell you are talking about. See Order Denying Motion for Incomprehensibility, In re King (Bankr. W.D. Tex. Feb. 21, 2006)…
Quit kidding around, whoever hasn't been taking this seriously. It's not me — I just checked, and I've used that phrase exactly once, back when Robert Blake was in jail on suspicion of killing his wife, and he was recorded…
Analogies are tricky in legal writing, mainly because of the risk you may stretch one too far and lose credibility. This one might have been a bit overstretched. According to the Telegraph, which reported the story in November 2010 and…
“It is a petty squabble, masquerading as a civil rights matter, that has no place in federal court or any other court.”
In connection with a podcast on the subject of why end-user license agreements for software are so full of legalese, CNET asked Oscar-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss to do a dramatic reading of the iTunes EULA, which he did. They've posted four…
In considering whether something could be the "worst legal brief" ever filed, we have to recognize that there are different kinds of badness. Many briefs are filed every year by people who are, evidently, insane. If it is fair to…
A Pennsylvania statute provides: Whoever intentionally throws, shoots, drops or causes to be propelled any solid object, from an overpass or any other location adjacent to or on a roadway, onto or toward said roadway shall be guilty of a…
Apparently you can be convicted of reckless driving in Virginia even if you weren't driving. As I wrote the other day, a Virginia man was acquitted of reckless driving recently after his attorney noticed that there was an "at" missing…