Lawyers, grammarians and connoisseurs of nastygrams will be studying this one for a long time: attorney Trenton Garmon, representing Alabama Senate candidate (and longtime Overlawyered favorite) Roy Moore, has sent a demand letter to Alabama press outlets instructing them that they had better not run certain negative stories. [Elliot Hannon, Slate; Ed Kilgore, New York mag] More: Kevin Underhill, Lowering the Bar.
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Wow! My red pencil found about a dozen unambiguous usage, grammar, and spelling errors (they even misspelled “its” in the first sentence). There’s inconsistent punctuation style: sometimes periods are in quotes and sometimes they’re outside.
You’d think he’d be able to afford a better law firm, and would have read this letter before approving it for dissemination.
What? You think an actual lawyer drafted the letter. It was probably handed off to the lowest Paralegal/legal secretary/intern in the firm org-chart.