W.D.Tex Judge Fred Biery (formerly on the Texas Fourth Court of Appeals) has a piece in today's Law360: A Judge's Pointers For Adding Spice To Dry Legal Writing, about how to write decisions that aren't boring. He says to "tell a human story," "be original," and he points out that:
In addition to traditional legalese, alliteration, double entendre, analogy, cadence, aphorism, malapropism, oxymoron, simile and euphemism can add spice to an otherwise bland bowl of legal porridge, whether in opinions or brief-writing.
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