I was rummaging through some of my LinkedIn groups and came across Andrew Duhuey’s comment about brief writing. It’s a kicker. Here’s what he says: Only in recent years have I come to understand the full importance of brevity and simplicity in legal writing. My wife worked as an appellate research attorney for years, and she has explained to me how in close cases, the simple, focused brief has a big advantage over the meandering, convoluted one. That might seem obvious, but it’s easy to lose sight of how, once you know your case thoroughly, you can subconsciously assume that the reader is right there with you as you move from one nuance to another. Quite often, you have lost the reader, and he/she…