In his latest column for Daily Journal, Manatt Appellate Partner Benjamin Shatz discussed the importance of precision in word choice for lawyers.
According to Shatz, it is essential for lawyers to use the correct words and accurately understand their meanings in order to use the right word in the right way. For example, he explained how one retired justice noted that the majority of U.S. Supreme Court cases pertain to interpretation of words in federal laws. “But one need not have cert granted to get to delve deeply into precisely what the right word means. Careful lawyers do that every day, choosing every word wisely and with exactitude,” Shatz wrote.
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