Miscellaneous

The Association of Corporate Counsel?s web site features a monthly Top Ten column. This month?s installment is Top Ten Ways to Achieve Good Legal Writing, by Professor Paula Colby-Clements of the Massachusetts School of Law. It?s a good article. Practicing lawyers should heed not only its content, but it?s publication by the ACC ? a sign that corporate counsel value good legal writing.

Among the gems in Prof. Colby-Clements?s article is this simile about not trying to make too many points in one writing:

It?s comparable to lying on a bed of nails: if there are too many points (spikes), nothing gets through. When there are only a few, they penetrate the skin.

(Hat tip to Mister Thorne.)