OOPS! “Home in” versus “hone in”

An easy mistake to make…made even easier by the fact that M and N are so close on the keyboard…you gotta know the difference between “home in” and “hone in.” This is incorrect: Joey NolfiTue, August 31, 2021, 11:39 AM Daniel...

Legal Writing is a Thing!

Dear Your Honor, Please not use the phrase “fully advised in the premises” in small claims court cases. A non-lawyer will zero in on the phrase “in the premises” and have heart failure and believe that you have gotten off-the-record information from someone or...

Legal writing needs…something!

A DEEP DIVE. How can lawyers be so smart, but write so poorly? Or are they just shining the rest of us on about the “smart” part when most of them are really just greedy bastards? This is an interesting example of legal writing and I thought I’d talk...

I am not the right fit for just anybody.

If you think the so-called “singular ‘they'” is the cat’s meow, then we are absolutely not a match, editorially speaking. Please don’t waste my time or yours in pointless discussion. It ain’t gonna work. And, yes, I’m talking...