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Law Practice

Aug. 9, 2000

Building Blocks

By Clyde Leland. Choose quotes carefully and present them so the reader understands their importance.



By Clyde Leland
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson.
        Quotes - what somebody said before - are the building blocks of legal writing. To say what the law is, we quote statutes, ordinances and regulations. When we say what the law means, we quote courts...

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