Some worthwhile web sightings on legal writing

Here are some recent blog posts worth checking out:

• At the award-winning In Search of Perfect Client Service, Patrick Lamb explains why writing plainly is, well, good client service.


• Holden Oliver, managing editor of What About Clients?’s Kitzbühel Desk, thinks that writing plainly “would help diminish the image of the self-important “I’m-special” lawyer rocking back and forth in his chair, and talking to himself like a mental patient.” (I love that line!)


• At Writing Matters, Marilynne Rudick has a short list of tips for more effective proofreading.


• Finally, at Slaw.ca, Simmon Fodden shows why, unless you’re your briefs are professionally typeset, you need a ragged right margin and just one space—not two—after each sentence.

Comments

[Ruth]

I always enjoy reading your blogs. Not to be captious about the last sentence you wrote in this post, but I think that you meant to write y-o-u-r instead of you're.

[Ray]

What can I say? A lesson that everyone needs an editor.