Appellate Law

Paint a Picture with Your Words ? But Not that Picture

By admin

At the end of the day, litigators (trial and appellate) are in the communications business.  We must get a point across to our audience and win them over to our point of view.  Writing instructors say to “tell a story” or to “paint a picture with your words.”  But, please be careful with the picture you paint!

Reuters has a story on the Business of Blogging:  How to Make it Work, in which it quotes a “branding expert” as noting that a successful blog “kind of opens the kimono and from a brand point of view lets people know who you are.”  That certainly conjures up a picture — but not one I particularly want to see! 

Thanks to Eugene Volokh over at Volokh Conspiracy for the pointer, and special thanks for him also promisng to keep his kimono closed.

Full post as published by The Opening Brief on January 17, 2008 (boomark / email).