Edit Like a Professional: Why Lawyers Should Borrow from the Nonlegal Editing Toolbox

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Washington State Bar News

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Lawyers spend much of their professional lives writing, yet too often their editing practices remain narrowly legalistic. The assumption is that editing legal writing must differ dramatically from editing other forms of professional prose. But in fact, many of the most effective editing techniques have long been practiced outside the law: in publishing, journalism, and technical writing. By adopting these methods, lawyers can produce documents that are not only substantively sound but also clear, persuasive, and readable.

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