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20Nov2012

Judge gives lawyers editing lessons

Posted in Articles, News by WordstoDeeds

In August this year, a US Judge, Steven D. Merryday at the District Court, Tampa Division, Florida, rejected submissions by lawyers that exceeded the page limit, and in his Order even gave them a lesson in editing – to avoid “redundancy, verbosity, and legalism”!

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