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During our travels for speaking engagements and legal tech conferences, we come across some interesting attorneys. Luckily, our reputation helps secure exclusive interviews with some of the more celebrated and well-known attorneys, and we’ve built a solid core of attorney profiles here on Big Legal Brain.
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I receive hundreds of free products every day day, and it gets a little old. Every once in a while, though, a legal product comes across my desk that promises to revolutionize the way we practice law. The HandJet EBS 250 Portable Printer is one of those. Whether you need an alternative to the traditional Bates stamp or a better way to present textual information in court, the EBS 250 will get you there, and then some. Take a gander at what this baby does: [Read more...]
Lawyers are phenomenal wordsmiths, weaving entire suits out of the tiniest of phrases. Occasionally, though, you may hit a dry spot, unable to conjure up a particular phrase or clause to capture a moment or burnish an argument. That’s why we recommend maintaining a stash of powerfully meaningless phrases you can rely on to bolster an argument without really saying anything. Here are three of our standard bearers.
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We’re not sure when the verbiating of American legal writing began, but many trace it back to when Robert Bork got borked. Since then, verbiating has taken off, much to the chagrine of lawyers who prefer a more Garnered approach to writing. While we agree with some of the complaints about verbiated writing, we also believe that verbiating, when used properly and with attention to detail, can create powerfully persuasive briefs and legal documents. [Read more...]
With the increasing use of new media by lawyers, the task of keeping legal briefs interesting and persuasive can be a challenge, even to lawyers with major Klout. Nevertheless, subliminal hashtagging could be the next new trend in the law, particularly in the coming year.
If you have not yet microblogged, a hashtag is a number symbol (#) followed by a string of letters and numbers that usually make sense. The hashtag is included at the end of a micropost to keep things fun and to make you trendy and influential. Although the FCC banned the use of subliminal messages in advertising in the 1970’s, the use of subliminal hashtags in legal briefs remains #A-Okay.
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Anyone in the business of writing legal briefs and memoranda knows how hard it is to breath new life into a stale medium. After a few years in the grind, it’s difficult to find new words that pack a punch. That’s where Yiddish can make a strong and memorable impression in your writing. Here are some top picks for incorporating Yiddish into your practice and legal writing. [Read more...]
Let’s face it. Most legal briefs and memoranda can be dreadfully boring. Worse, writing them can be time consuming. That’s why using the doodles you inevitably create during the drafting process can beef up your briefs and add a little pizzaz that makes all the difference in your final legal arguments.
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C. Hank Peters is Big Legal Brain's SuperMayor and a world-renowned legal marketing guru. Raised in the era of IBM mainframes and staplers, he knows how to make your firm efficient and completely awesome. He does not speak or write Chinese.
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