Some attorneys tend to drone on when they have a decent point. Sills Cummis partner Kenneth Oettle, who co-chairs the writing and mentor programs, says attorneys repeat themselves in the mistaken view that more is better — that if they keep railing against the other side’s argument, their position will appear stronger. In this column, Oettle shows how to cut a 73-word argument down to 15 while keeping the idea the same and not insulting the reader’s intelligence.
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Posted on Friday, April 7th, 2006. Filed under: Law Misc, Litigation
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