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Writing Tips From the Bench: Knowing When Less Is More

WA Bar News

By the time I get into the meat of the argument, my view is that I should have heard what the litigants points are in the table of contents, and in the summary of the argument, and in the topic headings. Is the table of contents the very first thing that you read when you look at a brief? Do you expect it to be engaging in that way?