Attorney Blogs

Today we dip into the mailbag and answer a reader’s question:

Traditional negligence works just fine.

To recap The Scribe’s recent tips regarding comma usage, the tip from November 5 concerned complex sentences and the tip from November 13 concerned compound predicates.

Last week we discussed comma use in complex sentences; today we discuss comma usage and compound predicates.

The Scribe has received many questions about comma usage; so the next few tips will explore the fascinating subject of commas … beginning with comma usage in complex sentences.

One of my first blog posts was about the Ninth Circuit’s decision to consider, en banc, whether the denial of an anti-SLAPP motion is immediately appealable.

As Pink Floyd once observed, “Money, it’s a gas/Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash.” So let’s talk about money, and more specifically, how to express dollars and cents in your writing.

You just got a bad ruling.

This week we discuss the correct use of “a” and “an.” These words are indefinite articles that are used to modify non-specific or non-particular nouns—as opposed to the definite article “the,” which modifies specific or particular nouns (e.g., the lawsuit versus

I love a short sentence.