More has been said about the writing of lawyers and judges than of any other group, except of course, poets and novelists. The difference is that while the latter have usually been admired for their writing, the public has almost always damned lawyers and judges for theirs. If this state of affairs has changed in recent times, it is only in that many lawyers and judges have now joined the rest of the world in complaining about the quality of legal prose.
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