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THE LANGUAGE OF CONTRACTS AND BRIEFS x2014 P LAINNESS PERSUASION AND MONEY WAYNE SCHIESS University of Texas School of Law 727 E Dean Keeton Street Austin TX 78705 State Bar of Texas 25 TH AN ID: 398156

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LEGAL WRITING PRACTICE TIPS: THE LANGUAGE OF CONTRACTS AND BRIEFS — P LAINNESS, PERSUASION, AND MONEY WAYNE SCHIESS University of Texas School of Law 727 E. Dean Keeton Street Austin, TX 78705 State Bar of Texas 25 TH ANNUAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW COURSE 2012 March 22 - 23 , 2012 Houston CHAPTER 18 Legal Writing Practice Tips Chapter 18 i TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ................................ ................................ ................................ ................................ .................... 1 1. Should lawyers write briefs in plain English? ................................ ................................ ............................. 1 2. Should lawyers write contracts in plain English? ................................ ................................ ........................ 2 3. What do studies of the language of briefs tell us about persuasion and plainness? ................................ ....... 5 (a) Do intensifiers help? ................................ ................................ ................................ ........................... 5 (b) Does a more readable brief help? ................................ ................................ ................................ ....... 5 (c) Is plainer writing more persuasive? What about informal writing? ................................ ...................... 5 (d) How readable are briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court? ................................ ................................ ........... 6 Legal Writing Practice Tips Chapter 18 ii TABLE OF AUTHORITIES Brady Coleman & Quy Phung, The Language of Supreme Court Briefs: A Large - Scale Quantitative Investigation, 11 J. App. Practice & Proc. 75 (2010). ................................ ................................ ................................ ............... 6 Br ady S. Coleman et al., Grammatical and Structural Choices in Issue Framing: A Quantitative Analysis of “Questions Presented” from a Half Century of Supreme Court Briefs , 29 Am. J. Trial Advoc. 327 (2005) ......... 6 Joseph Kimble, Lifting the Fog of Legalese (2006) ................................ ................................ ................................ .... 1 Kenneth Adams, A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting (2d ed. 2008) ................................ ................................ 3, 4 Lance N. Long & William F. Christensen, Clearly, Using Intensifiers Is Very Bad — Or Is I t? 45 Idaho L. Rev. 171, 171 (2008) ................................ ................................ ................................ ................................ ......................... 5 Lance N. Long & William F. Christensen, Does the Readab ility of Your Brief Affect Your Chance of Winning an Appeal? — An Analysis of Readability in Appellate Briefs and Its Correlation with Success on Appeal , 12 J. App. Prac. & Proc. 145 (2011). ................................ ................................ ................................ ................................ .. 5 Rudolf Flesch, How to Write Plain English 25 (1979). ................................ ................................ ............................... 7 Sean Flamm er, Persuading Judges: An Empirical Analysis of Writing Style, Persuasion, and the Use of Plain English , 16 Legal Writing 184 (2010) ................................ ................................ ................................ ................ 6 Wayne Schiess, Preparing Legal Documents Nonlawyers Can Read and Understand (2008) ................................ . 2 , 3