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: The California Blog of Appeal

Can Bad Legal Writing Get You in Trouble?

By Greg May

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You bet it can, and your boss isn’t the only one who can create trouble for you.  To see what other kinds of trouble you can get into, and how to avoid it, check out this oldie but goodie (but just recently posted to SSRN), Ethical Legal Writing, from UT law professor Wayne Schiess of Legalwriting.net and its blog.  The abstract: “This article describes real cases in which lawyers got into trouble for poor legal writing: court sanctions, fines, bar discipline, civil liability, and public humiliation. It offers advice for avoid [sic] those fates.”

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Full post as published by The California Blog of Appeal on January 13, 2009 (boomark / email).

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