"Clarity, simplicity, and brevity are underrated qualities in legal advocacy."
How Appealing: “Clarity, simplicity, and brevity are underrated qualities in legal advocacy.” Heading into the Thanksgiving holiday, Seventh Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner today issued an opinion containing some advice for lawyers, observing that “Although the dual federal-state regulatory scheme for the telecommunications industry is complex and even arcane, the parties did not have to assault us with 206 pages of briefs, brimming with jargon and technical detail, in order to be able to present the issues on appeal adequately.”