Quotation of the day
26 August 2008
“If any bill, answers, replication, or rejoinder, shall be found of an immoderate length, both the party and the counsel under whose hand it passeth shall be fined.”
— Sir Francis Bacon
Source: Tom Goldstein and Jethro K. Lieberman, The Lawyer’s Gide to Writing Well 102 (2d ed. 2002). Hat tip: The RAB Experience.