Dear Legal Writer: A sultry summer day calls for some sentence-slicers.

Try these 6.

Let’s strip some weight from everyone’s load today—

🥵 HEAVY ———> LIGHT 🎈

1: In order to —-—> To

2: Is able to ——-—> Can

3: For the purpose of —> For, to

4: In the event that —> If, should

5: Despite the fact that —> Even though

6: An adequate number of —> Enough

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Happy sentence-slicing!

💌 Amanda

P.S. Start a file for all the tips from me and other legal writers here. From it, you can create your own self-editing checklist—all for free!

👋 What wordy phrase would you add to the “heavy” list?

#DearLegalWriter