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I understand readers appreciated my previous tips on writing for judges, so I'm posting some additional points lawyers should keep in ...

This is a grammatically correct sentence: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. How can that be? Happy Fri...

Of Aristotle’s three persuasive strategies, ethos is the most difficult to explain. Ethos is essentially persuasion through the author’s goo...

Judge Posner loves to put pictures in his opinions. You can see some of his prior pictures here and here and read those opinions on the Se...

Pathos is the use of emotion to persuade. Unsurprisingly, pathos is often employed in criminal cases. Last week we looked at Simmons's b...

Alliteration is a stylistic device and occurs when words in close proximity share the same first consonant (or consonant sound). Judges some...

According to Aristotle, there are three types of persuasion: logos, ethos, and pathos. Logos is persuasion through reasoning and the effecti...