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To: goldworldnet who wrote (177969)	4/29/2009 8:48:20 PM
From: mph	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 225578

People should be encouraged to write. I have always liked to write and feel it has served me well both in academics and professionally. Writing well can really set one apart from the crowd. Early in my career, I was sitting outside a Superior Courtroom, making some notes after a hearing. The judge before whom I had just appeared entered the hallway enroute to a break. He walked over to me and complimented me on my paperwork, stating that he seldom saw such clear, well written briefs. I found that if you couldn't get the judge inclined your way after the papers were filed, that the odds of changing his or her mind in a short oral argument were slim to none. Appellate work is the same. Judges don't want to scour the record to figure out what you're trying to say. I have to believe that what I found to be true in my own career is true of many other occupations.