"When it comes to plain talk, lawyers are the worst. Most speak and write as if they live in a repository for dead bodies. When they write briefs that some poor trapped judge must read, they fill them with heavy, gray, lifeless, disgustingly boring word gravel — piles of it, tons of it. When I read most briefs I want to scream. I want to throw the brief out the window and jump. If I could find the author, and had the power, I would make the villain eat the thing a page at a time, without salt or catsup."Gerry Spence, Esq., How to Argue and Win Every Time (New York: St. Martins, 1995), p. 104-105.
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Ibid., p.105:
"There are no rules in the law that say lawyers must bore the judge. There are no rules against originality. There are no rules that say lawyers cannot write or speak from their heart. Passion has never been formally outlawed, although it is a little known experience among most lawyers and nearly all academicians."
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