Grammar

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Is Your Grammar Too Good? A New Way to Repel Clients and Prospects

Teddy Snyder: A new app revises your emails to make you seem human. It does this by creating errors. This does not appear to be a joke.

Theda C. Snyder - May 6, 2026
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Passionate Sentence Structure: Empower Your Legal Writing

Get to the Point! with Teddy Snyder: Let your passion tumble onto the screen in your first draft. But once that’s out of your system, it’s time to revise. Start with sentence structure.

Theda C. Snyder - April 6, 2026
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Supersede or Supercede? Why Do You Keep Misspelling This Word?

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.

Theda C. Snyder - March 12, 2026
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It’s National Grammar Day! Lawyers Are Feeling Poetic About Legal Writing

Teddy Snyder | Today’s the day to celebrate the pinnacle of communication excellence to which all lawyers aspire. It’s National Grammar Day!

Theda C. Snyder - March 4, 2026
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Flex Your Creative Writing Muscle: Submit a Poem for the National Grammar Day Poetry Contest

Is there a creative bone in your lawyer body? Teddy Snyder has details on the National Grammar Day Poetry Contest. The submission window opens February 15 for 13 days.

Theda C. Snyder - February 2, 2026
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Get Smarter: Read or Listen to a Book

What's adultery got to do with it? With apologies to Tina Turner, Get to the Point makes the case for reading more books.

Theda C. Snyder - January 22, 2026
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Good Writers Ignore Em Dash Critics

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.

Theda C. Snyder - January 7, 2026
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The Reason Lawyers Procrastinate About Writing Projects (Or, When It’s OK to Be Stupid)

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.

Theda C. Snyder - December 3, 2025
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Get With the Program! Decoding Legal Technology Abbreviations

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

Theda C. Snyder - November 17, 2025
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This Is Happening More Often Than You Realize: More Court Opinions That Rely on Grammar

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.

Theda C. Snyder - October 31, 2025
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