Trial Lawyer Arash Homampour believes in efficient reading and concise, clear writing to communicate your point simply.
Transcript
With reading and writing, it’s something practice makes perfect. So as you evolve as a lawyer, your writing skills will evolve. You know when I first started started out as a lawyer, I was not a great writer. It was only over time that I realized, if through efficient reading, and concise and clear writing you make your point. So a lot of lawyers have the problem of they write too much, there’s just simply too much content. They think that more means a stronger argument and it’s really an art to be able to take a complex topic and capture it succinctly and as few words as possible, but in the most powerful way possible. And so what I, you know, well how I look at it now is when I look at an issue I really try and look at it from a broad view, but making it as simple as possible. So when I’m writing, it’s really about recognizing that your reader, the judge, or whoever is reading, the insurance adjustor, you know, they read a lot and so respect their reading time, get to the point, don’t make frivolous, collateral arguments that detract from your main point and I always tell people you’d rather get two good punches in than a hundred little, you know, nail chips. And so it’s same with reading and writing you really have to just focus and less is more.
