As societal norms change, how legal writers use language will change too. This is never more prevalent than with a legal writer’s use of pronouns. It may seem that a legal writer must choose to be either grammatically correct or inclusive. This article indicates that perhaps this is not the case, and provides alternatives to choosing one of these options over the other.
https://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/inclusive_legal_writing
An anonymous appellate lawyer who describes himself as a “persnickety dude” tweets typos from the New York Times as a hobby.
Regent University law professor James J. Duan wrote U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor about a phrase she used in a dissent this month. Professor Duane told Sotomayor that she misused a phrase in this sentence: “Little if nothing appears left of the statutory exemptions after today’s constitutional broadside.” In his July 14 letter, he notes that she meant instead to write ‘little or nothing’ or ‘little if anything’.
