Hello everybody, my brief re-flirtation with my legal roots has got me all excited. Today, I would like to share with you the basic skills required to be a lawyer. I would like to share with you an excerpt from one of the highly recommended texts, Still the Official Lawyer's Handbook, by Daniel R. White.
1. Never use one word when ten will do.
2. Never use a small word where a big one will do.
3. Never use a simple statement where it appears that one of substantially greater complexity will achieve comparable goals.
4. Never use English where Latin, mutatis mutandis, will do
5. Qualify virtually everything
6. Do not be embarrassed about repeating yourself
7. Do not be embarrassed about repeating yourself
8. Worry about the difference between "which" and "that"
9. Never refer to your opponents "arguments" - he makes only "assertions", and his assertions are always "bald".
10. If a lay person can read a document from beginning to end without falling asleep, it needs work
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