Get to the Point

Get to the Point! Don't fear the em dash, says Teddy Snyder. Until the latest brouhaha about differentiating your writing from machine style, you probably used em dashes regularly — and correctly.

Get to the Point! The reason lawyers procrastinate about writing projects, suggests Teddy Snyder, is that we're afraid to be stupid. Here's how to get over it.

Get to the Point! AI, LM, LLM: Teddy Snyder reminds us that one abbreviation can refer to a multitude of things. Context matters.

Teddy Snyder | Maybe you thought opinions that relied on grammar were outliers. Not so. Three recent cases where courts based their opinions on rules of grammar.

Teddy Snyder | Like the words “verbiage” and “expansive”, “bemused” has apparently lost its meaning through misuse.

Teddy Snyder | Does it feel like the players in your case are acting without rhyme or reason? Like Milo in 'The Phantom Tollbooth,' your job as a lawyer is to restore good decision-making and rational behavior.

Teddy Snyder | Supersede is a concise word lawyers love to use, so why do so many get it wrong? Here's the seed of an idea to stop this mistake.

Teddy Snyder | Get To The Point has previously discussed how naming a series of items in a document can be a pitfall. Well, it happened again.

Teddy Snyder | “Expansive” pops up in all sorts of legal writing from website verbiage (“our expansive PI practice”) to statements of facts in appellate briefs.

Teddy Snyder | Its. it’s the word that trips up many writers, the word that doesn’t follow the rules.