Persuasion is the Lawyer’s Money Game

On 10 November 2009, in Persuasive Writing, by Peter Smythe

There are only two things law­yers get paid for: wri­ting per­sua­si­vely and spea­king per­sua­si­vely. It’s not as if those are two impor­tant things among many. They are the only two things. That’s it. And your wri­ting comes first. When you improve your wri­ting, your spea­king will auto­ma­ti­cally become bet­ter. The con­trary isn’t neces­sa­rily true at […]

There are only two things law­yers get paid for: wri­ting per­sua­si­vely and spea­king per­sua­si­vely. It’s not as if those are two impor­tant things among many. They are the only two things. That’s it. And your wri­ting comes first. When you improve your wri­ting, your spea­king will auto­ma­ti­cally become bet­ter. The con­trary isn’t neces­sa­rily true at all. (Bryan Gar­ner, Telling the Good from the Bad)

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