Bryan Garner’s June ABA Journal column reminds lawyers to write with care. Two of his suggestions are to avoid long words like subsequently in favor of shorter ones like later and to conform punctuation to The Chicago Manual of Style.

Such careful writing, Garner says, can lead to a win in the courtroom. For a brush-up on style, he recommends reading Theodore Bernstein’s The Careful Writer and articles in the Wall Street Journal and The Atlantic. The same can be said for judges!!!