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I don't know. Obviously experience varies, but I have found at my agency that many, many lawyers do not seem to care about typos, bluebooking, etc even in briefs that are submitted to court. Ditto for opposing counsel and for the lawyers who practice before us. I care intensely, which I assume is my clerkship/biglaw training; I would've gotten reamed out for the mistakes that routinely are submitted in my colleagues' briefs. My supervisor also cares and my colleagues label him a micromanaging freak because of it. [/quote]

Interesting, this is my experience too (including the resentment of people who care).  Many are very careful, meticulous lawyers in other respects but it just doesn't carry through to their writing.  I see a correlation between people who care and people who attended "top" schools; not sure if there is a biglaw correlation as there are few of us with that background.[/quote]

For me, it has to do with resources.  As a government attorney, I've frequently worked in offices that are understaffed. Some attorneys want to spend all their time writing a few briefs. The case log gets jammed up, and the rest of the office picks up the work. I've said to a few of my subordinates that they don't need to be turning out law review quality work. They need to write briefs that advocate our position. A typo isn't going to change the outcome of a case.  Some attorneys need to check their egos and learn to turn out more work, even if the work product isn't perfect. [/quote]

PP here... I completely disagree with you.

If you do not care enough about your work product to proofread and avoid typos in this day & age of computers and word processing software, that tells me (as an attorney with 33 yrs. experience, as well as a judge, mediator, and arbitrator), that your professional standards are lax.  And that reflects on your credibility.

Slackers of the world, get your shit together!

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