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...

CNN plumbs new depths!

While the Obama’s – – and their staff – – lived through the renovation, there was discussion of possibly having to move Oval Office operations to another location, according to news reports at the time. And this is writing from one of...