A few weeks ago, I had to attend a hearing and found out the day before that the Judge wanted a pre-hearing brief. I had no time to impress her with legal writing skills and decided to take a risk by cutting and pasting copies of important sections from the medical exhibits onto the brief as evidence for my arguments. It ended up being approximately ten pages and I was extremely nervous handing it to the judge. But all nerves went away when the judge told me how happy she was with my brief and wished everyone would do the same.
Oh by the way…I won