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Pastimes : Where the GIT's are going -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: mph who wrote (177970)	4/30/2009 12:20:00 AM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 225578

My father (a lawyer) had a lawyer friend. They worked a couple cases together. At one point I read a brief they'd submitted to the court that the other guy had written. I was appalled. Poor grammar, misspelled words, etc. I was a newbie at the time, but could not understand how someone would be content to submit that work product to the court. The guy's attitude was, "it's the substance that counts." I disagreed. If you lose the judge's interest at the outset due to poor writing, you're not going to dazzle him/her, no matter how strong your legal argument.