![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
persuasive legal writing
Dec. 7th, 2005 02:32 pmjust attended a CLE on the topic. wasn't too bad. but i have two observations to make:
1) reading harry potter has made me look at every stranger in life as some kind of harry potter-esque character. the woman giving the CLE today reminded me of umbridge.
2) i am not a bad writer. but my bosses make me a bad writer. they really like editing. but i don't really feel like their editing adds anything to what i've generally written in a succinct, active voice manner (not that i think passive voice is bad ALL the time). and, this woman's advice on writing, while good, did not address at all the fact that in reality, the legal world writes poorly. (i just violated one of her rules, using a word that ends in -ly.)
1) reading harry potter has made me look at every stranger in life as some kind of harry potter-esque character. the woman giving the CLE today reminded me of umbridge.
2) i am not a bad writer. but my bosses make me a bad writer. they really like editing. but i don't really feel like their editing adds anything to what i've generally written in a succinct, active voice manner (not that i think passive voice is bad ALL the time). and, this woman's advice on writing, while good, did not address at all the fact that in reality, the legal world writes poorly. (i just violated one of her rules, using a word that ends in -ly.)
