Attorney Blogs

This week we discuss one of The Scribe’s biggest pet peeves—written materials that show the reader that the writer has no qualms about wasting the reader’s time (mercifully, this rarely shows up in this firm’s written materials).

Could we get an en banc rehearing?

My favorite birthday card of all time had the following exchange between two high school girls:

Today we discuss the passive voice.

The Oregon Court of Appeals edition

I’m sure we’ve all lain awake in the wee hours, tossing and turning, and pondered the deep issues—such as the distinction between “principle” and “principal.” The starting point for analyzing this sleep-depriving puzzle is to know that “principle” is almost always a noun (with exceptions too weird to explain here), and that “principal” is usually an adjective (although it can be a noun,

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.