One of our readers, Mister Thorne, wrote in to us about a recent legal writing cartoon we posted earlier this week (the (new) legal writer also picked up on it).

He pointed out an article from his site today that addresses lawyers as authors and law firms as publishers.

Lawyers rarely know how to write for the public.  Blogging, especially early in law school, can help develop these skills.

Although we have readers across Canada in pretty much every law school, in major law firms, courthouses and government legal departments, the majority of our readership is the larger Canadian public.  We have more readers than there are law students (or potential law students) in Canada, so we know we’re dealing with non-legal people as well.

If we get too verbose or technical a lot of our readership dies off.  Occasionally we like to mix it up in order to keep up our standards and provide some valuable legal analysis for the web.  But a balance between technical, informative, and educational writing is important for us to reach a broader audience.

And as Mister Thorne says,

Not every attorney can do that on his own.

That’s where he comes in, providing editing services to lawyers and law firms to help them become more presentable to clients.