I need your help.
I am in search of some truly awful legal writing.
I'm not going to make fun of it, and I'll even change
the names and keep the source confidential.
I'm going to use it as a teaching tool.
On April 26th, I am scheduled to teach a unit at the Texas Law
Center in Austin on styling clear sentences. Such a presentation
has the potential to be deadly dull, dry, and abstract.
Rather than run that risk, I propose to illustrate proper
sentence styling by taking some bad writing and making it good.
Or at least better.
I know what you're saying: physician heal thyself.
And the point is well taken. I'm sure I could find plenty of
turgid awfulness right on my own computer. But what I'm looking
for is a candidate for the worst page of legal prose ever
written.
