![]() ![]() Toby Brown, a good friend and previous speaker here at LawBiz® Podcast, is a former director of the Utah State Bar and currently the Director of Strategic Pricing & Analytics for Akin Gump, a top 50 AmLaw law firm. “Talking” with personal friends is a different matter. When in business, we know the validity of “dress for success.” So, too, when communicating even in e-mail, write/speak commensurate with your market, the recipients of your communication. That’s where the tension lies: we write it as though the message is impermanent they judge it and us as though it’s permanent….” In that gap, our email mindset might be loose and informal, but our business recipients do not forgive our typos, grammatical slips, and bloated, unnecessary, abstract, sometimes nonsensical phrasing. Our writing must be more precise than our speech because we have only words to convey meaning.Įmail is a weird hybrid existing between speaking and writing. When speaking, we use, and tolerate (to a point) others using, ers and uhs and sos and wells and likes, and confusing who with whom and lay with lie because most of us can’t think fast enough when we speak to get it all grammatically correct plus we have tone of voice, facial expressions, and body language to help us communicate. our speaking vocabulary – the smallest and least grammatical.our writing vocabulary – in the middle and. ![]() ![]() our reading or comprehension vocabulary – by far the largest.Gary Kinder, founder and CEO of WordRake® writes the following: Listen and, more importantly, go to the Tech Show. ![]() Today’s interview is with Brett Burney, Technology Consultant and Chair of the 2015 ABA Chicago TechShow from April 16-18.Rule 1.1 of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct has been modified to include familiarity with technology as part of the definition of competence. ![]()
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