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Why Lawyers Need to Write Less Like Marshall and More Like MapQuest

Writing in many parts of the legal and business worlds have probably changed more in the last decade than in any comparable period over the last five centuries.

6 minute read February 26, 2013 at 04:31 PM
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Steven Stark
Why Lawyers Need to Write Less Like Marshall and More Like MapQuest

Though we tend to think that good writing never changes, writing in many parts of the legal and business worlds have probably changed more in the last decade than in any comparable period over the last five centuries.

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