Why would legal writing be different from all other writing on Earth? Pull literally any book off your shelf (even legal ones!) and see for yourself: there is one space after the periods. Period! https://slate.com/technology/2011/01/two-spaces-after-a-period-why-you-should-never-ever-do-it.html …https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1248817218600808450 …
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Replying to @Patterico
Because you finish a legal brief & turn it in to be read as prepared. You don't hand it over to a printing press.
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Replying to @baseballcrank
OK, but the question remains why legal writing should be different from all other writing on Earth. I used to be a two spaces guy. Then I read the Slate piece I linked in my last tweet. Then I started pulling books off shelves. Including legal style manuals! Try it. You'll see.
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Replying to @baseballcrank
OK, but as I said twice before, the question remains why legal writing should be different from all other writing on Earth. I like you a lot, Dan, but you have this tendency to repeatedly ignore the points I make.
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Replying to @Patterico
I don't think it's different from, say, writing a letter or an academic paper. But you keep ignoring my point about books, which is that they are printed differently and that matters when you're discussing layout.
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Replying to @baseballcrank
I acknowledge that books are not briefs. Now I have not ignored the point you made. In keeping with my pledge, I will leave it there.
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We're failing at lawyering by not spending the whole night finding increasingly small elements of the dispute to argue over ;)
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