August 11, 2026

Law Practice Tip #8: Make things easier to understand

“No one will ever complain about your writing making something easier to understand.” That’s how you should try to write, whether its for a partner, a judge, or your client. Simple, clean, articulate, and careful. No one has to read what you write, and it doesn’t take much to distract the reader to something else. […]

Law Practice Tips: Interesting work, if you can get it.

Image by NobMouse via Flickr I practice one of the least exciting areas of law.  At least in the eyes of those who ask me, almost every other day or so, “what area of law do you practice?” “Contracts,” I say. “Leases, amendments, assignments, and so on.  All contracts.”  Their eyes glaze over, and they […]