As someone who deals with lawyers for a living I have to say this judge is one of my heroes.
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...“Compare the meaning of ‘Now, therefore, it may be and is hereby ordered that' with ‘It is ordered.’ ”
Kressel also observes that “lawyers love to capitalize words. ...not quite randomly, but certainly with great abandon.

There's more juicy, how-about-you-write-what-you-mean? goodness and a PDF with the guidelines at the link.

I have to admit that when I'm responding to especially verbose and ignorant (it's funny how often they go together) attorneys I try to put in lots of that high-faluting lawyer talk with "whereby"s and "heretofore"s. I'll occasionally go overboard on "thusly"s, but I like them.
I really get into talking about myself in the third person. That makes me laugh every single time.

Via a guy I work with. You wouldn't know him and I don't want him reading the blog. He's one of the few people at that office who likes me. I'm the evil conservative, global worming denying, gun-monger who doesn't think Bush is evil on the 5th floor, he's a Vietnamese boat person who got here as a child shortly after Saigon fell. He's kinda conservative. (Gee, ya think?)
He's even more disliked than I am. He hasn't learned to keep his mouth shut and over the past 4 or so years my floor turned from weird geeks to hard leftists.

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