What Partners Hate: Top Five Structure Swipes and One General Groan

• Lack of concise, punchy, meaty introductions
• String cites without parentheticals
• Long block quotes
• Overuse of footnotes
• Glossing over statutory or contractual language in favor of cases construing similar language

And here’s the most prominent partner protest of them all:

• “Writing like a law student on law review, not like an advocate for a client”