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	<title>Set in Style</title>
	<link>http://misterthorne.org/set_in_style</link>
	<description>A skilled and experienced editor offers advice to those who could use one.</description>
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		<title>An Interesting Quote</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From this article (titled &#8220;Lawyers&#8217; writing skills still bad&#8221;) in the National Law Journal:
&#8220;Most of us would be far better writers if we&#8217;d never gone to law school.&#8221;
That&#8217;s the word from Douglas Winter, writing instructor at Bryan Cave.
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		<link>http://misterthorne.org/set_in_style/2008/05/13/an-interesting-quote/</link>
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		<title>Shifting Gears (from Briefs to Alerts)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It's one thing to write a brief that MUST be read by a few others. It's quite another to write a client alert that no one has to read.]]></description>
		<link>http://misterthorne.org/set_in_style/2008/05/11/shifting-gears-from-briefs-to-alerts/</link>
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		<title>Not Your Average, Run-of-the-Mill Law Firm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Valorem Law Group knows a thing or two about marketing legal services. It knows that standing out from competitors is the way to go. And its Web site demonstrates that very well.
Take a look at the site&#8217;s disclaimer. That&#8217;s certainly not your average, run-of-the-mill disclaimer, and this can&#8217;t possibly be your average, run-of-the-mill law [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://misterthorne.org/set_in_style/2008/05/04/not-your-average-run-of-the-mill-law-firm/</link>
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		<title>Touched by an Editor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yet another answer to our perpetual question: what can an editor do for you?
Consider the following copy, the first line in a client alert:
The Ninth Circuit ruled earlier this month in Fair Housing Council v. Roommates.com that a website that specializes in matching renters with those with rooms to rent violated the Fair Housing Act [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://misterthorne.org/set_in_style/2008/05/04/touched-by-an-editor-2/</link>
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		<title>Garner and Scalia Interviewed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The May 2008 edition of the ABA Journal has this interview with Bryan Garner and Antonin Scalia discussing topics from Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges.
Here&#8217;s some of the best advice the book has to offer (about writing briefs):
Banish jargon, hackneyed expressions and needless Latin. By “jargon” we mean the words and phrases [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://misterthorne.org/set_in_style/2008/04/27/garner-and-scalia-interviewed/</link>
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		<title>Writing Skills is Measured at Thelen Reid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
I don&#8217;t know about you, but I find it a mite odd (sophomoric) when a law firm &#8212; especially a great big one &#8212; bothers to list each and every instance of someone at the firm being quoted in a newspaper or magazine. I find it especially odd when the list includes quotes that appeared [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://misterthorne.org/set_in_style/2008/04/26/this-and-that-is-measured-at-thelen-reid/</link>
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		<title>Standards of the Standards of Review at the Ninth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Review the Standards of Review published by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. From a production standpoint, this is pretty scary stuff. And if you wonder why, just compare them (those published standards) to these published standards.
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		<link>http://misterthorne.org/set_in_style/2008/04/24/standards-of-the-standards-of-review-at-the-ninth/</link>
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		<title>Law Firm Claims Wood is a Fossil Fuel!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck &#8212; a firm that boasts &#8220;you can rest assured that you&#8217;re being represented by a team of seasoned attorneys with the knowledge, relationships and legal skills to help you mitigate even the most complex environmental risk&#8221;  &#8212; says  wood is a fossil fuel.

California recently enacted a landmark global warming [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://misterthorne.org/set_in_style/2008/04/21/law-firm-claims-wood-is-fossil-fuel/</link>
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		<title>Wizardry at Winstead</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Winstead PC &#8212; one of the largest law firms in Texas &#8212; does what so many other large law firms do. It advertises that it uses technology &#8212; including its &#8220;unique data and software applications&#8221; &#8212; to increase efficiency and to provide &#8220;[u]nsurpassed access to critical business and legal information.&#8221;
Sounds pretty good, right?


Take a look [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://misterthorne.org/set_in_style/2008/04/21/wizardry-at-winstead/</link>
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		<title>Monster v. Blue Jeans, Esq.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
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It&#8217;s like David v. Goliath. There&#8217;s a big manufacturer. It likes to throw its weight around. It sends a cease-and-desist letter to some Mom-and-Pop shop. It turns out that Pop is a lawyer, and he&#8217;s got a formidable sense of humor.
Read Pop&#8217;s response to Monster&#8217;s claim of patent infringement.
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		<link>http://misterthorne.org/set_in_style/2008/04/17/monster-v-blue-jeans-esq/</link>
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