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Bryan A. Garner

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Editor in chief, Black's Law Dictionary; author, Garner's Modern English Usage. Fall in love with language & it will love you back.
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Does Bryan Garner think AI will end bad legal writing?

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By Bryan A. Garner
| ABA Journal Verified
Artificial intelligence is making legal writing cheaper, faster and less embarrassing. Its first achievement won’t be a flowering of legal thought. It’ll be the elimination of drudgery: typos, ghostly cross-references, inconsistent uses of supposedly mandatory "shalls" and defined terms that mutate from section to section. The slog of curing those problems has long subsidized law practice.
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Bryan Garner on the discipline of getting caught

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By Bryan A. Garner
| ABA Journal Verified
Most legal writers—call them Type 1—don’t care much about the punctilios of Bluebook practice. Those with more bibliographic conscientiousness—Type 2—have long noticed their “sloppiness.” There is, after all, an elaborate code governing citation: a catalogue of mandatory abbreviations in Table T6 and a hierarchy of signals (no signal, see also, cf.), each carrying a distinct and calibrated claim about what the cited authority actually does.
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When you get blasted by your own canon

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By Bryan A. Garner
| ABA Journal Verified
Home Columns When you get blasted by your own canon Bryan Garner on Words Have you wondered why you’re getting so many unsolicited texts and robocalls these days? Bryan Garner says he may be partly to blame. (Image from Shutterstock) Have you wondered why you’re getting so many unsolicited texts and robocalls these days? I may be partly to blame. But let’s stick a pin in that for a moment and go back to a U.S. Supreme Court argument in 1823.
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