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<blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 9399886" data-attributes="member: 23751">When I was in school to be a paralegal, my professor told the class to go over a specific case and condense it down to the important facts for the attorney.&nbsp; She said to be concise.&nbsp; As most of you know from my posts, concise is my middle name.&nbsp; I rarely write posts that are even this long.&nbsp; Anyway, I brought the paper up to her and she looked at it and this was the back and forth.Her: &quot;You need to write more.&quot;Me: &quot;You said to be concise.&quot;Her: &quot;Yes I did, but trust me, there needs to be more here.&quot;Me: &quot;Everything the attorney will want to know is there and understandable.&quot;Her: &quot;Yes it is, but attorneys like words. I can't believe this.&nbsp; In 25 years you are the first student I've had to tell to be less concise.&quot;Then since I abhor wasted space, I struggled for like a half hour to stick in filler words that didn't alter any of what I had said and doubled the number of words used.&nbsp; That apparently was good enough.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Maxperson, post: 9399886, member: 23751"] When I was in school to be a paralegal, my professor told the class to go over a specific case and condense it down to the important facts for the attorney. She said to be concise. As most of you know from my posts, concise is my middle name. I rarely write posts that are even this long. Anyway, I brought the paper up to her and she looked at it and this was the back and forth. Her: "You need to write more." Me: "You said to be concise." Her: "Yes I did, but trust me, there needs to be more here." Me: "Everything the attorney will want to know is there and understandable." Her: "[B]Yes it is, but attorneys like words[/B]. I can't believe this. In 25 years you are the first student I've had to tell to be less concise." Then since I abhor wasted space, I struggled for like a half hour to stick in filler words that didn't alter any of what I had said and doubled the number of words used. That apparently was good enough. [/QUOTE]

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