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Law Practice

Mar. 1, 2002

Legal Faux Pas Provide Mist for the Grill

Dicta Column - By Donald E. Griffith - When lawyers get in a hurry, their legal sometimes assistants make typing mistakes. This is because most lawyers know only enough about typing to know how to make the "$" symbol appear on their legal bills. So they stand over their underpaid, stressed-out assistants, red pen in hand, and make illegible changes to a hard copy of the document, which the assistant must translate into something seemingly coherent.

        Dicta Column
        
        By Donald E. Griffith

        When lawyers get in a hurry, their legal sometimes assistants make typing mistakes. This is because most lawyers know only enough about typing to know how to make the "$" symbol appear on their legal bills. S...

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