May 18, 2010
In one of those smack-your-forehead moments, I realized that there’s an obvious fifth question to be added to yesterday’s list of four questions that should be asked at every business meeting (which as a result would now have the acronym GPPPA): Goals: What are we trying to achieve in this project or relationship, and why? [...]
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May 17, 2010
Legal-writing guru Wayne Schiess has some great examples to illustrate how not to write a topic sentence. Excerpt: Don’t do this: In Williams v. Tulsa Motels, 958 P.2d 1282, 1284 (Okla. 1998) a business invitee brought a negligence action against hotel owners seeking recovery for injuries sustained in a slip and fall. Williams, 58 P.2d [...]
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