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biglaw firms need to get their shit together re: en dashes and em dashes

I see even the most elite firms (literally Wachtell and Crav...
Peach boyish hunting ground
  03/19/18
Two hyphens for em dashes isn't that bad. It's just ugly.
Racy business firm
  03/19/18
it's despicable
Peach boyish hunting ground
  03/19/18
Saw a guy get fired for this and straight up walked out befo...
honey-headed church
  03/19/18
lmfao that you're dealing with firms that aren't employing, ...
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Trendash for life. What the fuck?
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Vibrant place of business
  03/19/18
I'm open to hearing an explanation. But I consider myself a ...
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Square apostrophes are the worst. I mean, show a little effo...
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  03/19/18
Real pain in the ass in patent cases because you can’t just ...
Sadistic new version
  03/19/18
You know what is really fucking insane is when people point ...
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  03/19/18
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Histrionic haunted graveyard jap
  03/19/18
i correct every goddamn one. the founding fathers talked ab...
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  03/22/18
Good job man. We’d be friends.
Peach boyish hunting ground
  05/12/18
This is a little known fact: the CAFC shreds your brief if t...
slimy jew main people
  05/12/18
Btw, why can’t you use the replace function in patent cases?...
Peach boyish hunting ground
  05/12/18
It flips them all so they curl away from the number.
slimy jew main people
  05/14/18
two hyphens all day, fuck trying to find the button for em b...
concupiscible flatulent affirmative action
  03/19/18
you can typically just use a voice command ime
Vibrant place of business
  03/19/18
Using hyphens instead of en dashes to save a line when faced...
comical sound barrier whorehouse
  03/19/18
Honestly the one situation where I have been tempted to use ...
Peach boyish hunting ground
  03/19/18
You could have avoided all this just by doing better in HS c...
Chartreuse electric idea he suggested
  03/19/18
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Vibrant place of business
  03/19/18
Most lawyers did just fine in HS math.
Racy business firm
  03/19/18
The industrial revolution and its consequences have been a d...
Fluffy bossy shrine
  03/19/18
Amateur! Increase the font scale setting to increase the ...
Racy business firm
  03/19/18
This is conscious rules flouting and robs you of your plausi...
Peach boyish hunting ground
  03/19/18
Very TTT. But who's going to check?
Racy business firm
  05/14/18
People who care about this are what make biglaw miserable, f...
concupiscible flatulent affirmative action
  03/19/18
"bake?" oh shit, I just proved your point. Bake me...
Histrionic haunted graveyard jap
  03/19/18
Damn you're fast
concupiscible flatulent affirmative action
  03/19/18
That took several hours per my notebook of billables.
Histrionic haunted graveyard jap
  03/19/18
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concupiscible flatulent affirmative action
  03/19/18
Brother, clients pay $620 an hour for us to care about this ...
comical sound barrier whorehouse
  03/19/18
Judge: Well, I was going to rule in defendant's favor, but t...
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  03/19/18
nobody whose time has any value gives one solitary fuck abou...
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I see even the most elite firms -- literally Wachtell and C...
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  03/20/18
This is — the credited criticism — so say I.
rough-skinned church building
  05/12/18
The SGs office is the last bastion of good writing in the pr...
slimy jew main people
  05/12/18
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  05/14/18


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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:02 PM
Author: Peach boyish hunting ground

I see even the most elite firms (literally Wachtell and Cravath and Kellog and other top places) file briefs using hyphens instead of en dashes and using en dashes or, god forbid, two hyphens for em dashes. get it together motherfuckers.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641306)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:11 PM
Author: Racy business firm

Two hyphens for em dashes isn't that bad. It's just ugly.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641398)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:13 PM
Author: Peach boyish hunting ground

it's despicable

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641410)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:03 PM
Author: honey-headed church

Saw a guy get fired for this and straight up walked out before he jumped off the roof

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641317)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:04 PM
Author: Vibrant place of business

lmfao that you're dealing with firms that aren't employing, at a minimum, the trendash. Point to fact, in times of great exigency, I've gone so far as to make use of a pentadash.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641319)



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Date: March 20th, 2018 12:53 PM
Author: Galvanic piazza nibblets



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35645246)



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 12:22 AM
Author: transparent odious institution



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35658763)



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Date: May 14th, 2018 6:55 PM
Author: Vibrant place of business



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#36050284)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:04 PM
Author: Godawful swashbuckling box office skinny woman

Trendash for life. What the fuck?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641323)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:05 PM
Author: Vibrant place of business



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641327)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:06 PM
Author: Black toaster



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641346)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:06 PM
Author: Peach boyish hunting ground

This literally does not exist in the English language. I have no idea what you are talking about.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641347)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:07 PM
Author: Vibrant place of business

(non-peer graduate; non-peer practitioner; non-peer farmers market goer)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641352)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:10 PM
Author: Peach boyish hunting ground

I'm open to hearing an explanation. But I consider myself a punctuation hardliner and literally have no idea what you are talking about.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641383)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:14 PM
Author: Histrionic haunted graveyard jap

Check out Eats, Shoots, and Trendashes

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641427)



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Date: March 20th, 2018 12:55 PM
Author: silver point hairy legs



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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:07 PM
Author: cerebral magenta theater stage



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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:08 PM
Author: Fishy titillating personal credit line university



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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:10 PM
Author: silver point hairy legs



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641386)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:12 PM
Author: Vigorous orchestra pit



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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:05 PM
Author: Chartreuse electric idea he suggested

Is this flame

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641326)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:05 PM
Author: marvelous purple address

Square apostrophes are the worst. I mean, show a little effort.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641333)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:12 PM
Author: Sadistic new version

Real pain in the ass in patent cases because you can’t just replace all

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641407)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:16 PM
Author: Peach boyish hunting ground

You know what is really fucking insane is when people point the apostrophe the wrong way in patent cases. You see this all the time. Probably greater than 50% of the time, a biglaw firm will write about the 999 patent and have the apostrophe at the beginning pointing the wrong way.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641435)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:03 PM
Author: Mischievous very tactful mood

cr, huge patent prole tell

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641765)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 12:17 PM
Author: Peach boyish hunting ground



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35652523)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:14 PM
Author: Histrionic haunted graveyard jap



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641869)



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 12:18 AM
Author: razzmatazz translucent tanning salon

i correct every goddamn one. the founding fathers talked about patents in the goddamn constitution for fucks sake show a little respect

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35658723)



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Date: May 12th, 2018 9:01 PM
Author: Peach boyish hunting ground

Good job man. We’d be friends.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#36038907)



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Date: May 12th, 2018 9:05 PM
Author: slimy jew main people

This is a little known fact: the CAFC shreds your brief if they see a straight or backwards quote.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#36038931)



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Date: May 12th, 2018 9:07 PM
Author: Peach boyish hunting ground

Btw, why can’t you use the replace function in patent cases??? I’d like an explanation.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#36038946)



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Date: May 14th, 2018 6:54 PM
Author: slimy jew main people

It flips them all so they curl away from the number.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#36050278)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:05 PM
Author: concupiscible flatulent affirmative action

two hyphens all day, fuck trying to find the button for em bash all the time

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641336)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:06 PM
Author: Vibrant place of business

you can typically just use a voice command ime

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641345)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:06 PM
Author: comical sound barrier whorehouse

Using hyphens instead of en dashes to save a line when faced with a page limit: decadent or shrewd?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641343)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:09 PM
Author: Peach boyish hunting ground

Honestly the one situation where I have been tempted to use a hyphen instead of an en dash (and, on occasion, have succumbed) is when faced with a strict word limit. If you use an en dash, Microsoft Word records the range as two words whereas it records a single word if you use a hyphen. But it is incorrect usage and I've always been tempted to call people out for violating the word count where they hit it exactly while employing 50 hyphens in the place of en dashes.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641372)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:10 PM
Author: Chartreuse electric idea he suggested

You could have avoided all this just by doing better in HS calculus

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641379)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:11 PM
Author: Vibrant place of business



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641390)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:13 PM
Author: Racy business firm

Most lawyers did just fine in HS math.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641414)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:11 PM
Author: Fluffy bossy shrine

The industrial revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641395)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:15 PM
Author: Racy business firm

Amateur!

Increase the font scale setting to increase the hyphen to 300%.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641430)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:18 PM
Author: Peach boyish hunting ground

This is conscious rules flouting and robs you of your plausible deniability. Many jurisdictions, for example Delaware, now require briefs to be filed in Word format.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641456)



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Date: May 14th, 2018 6:59 PM
Author: Racy business firm

Very TTT.

But who's going to check?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#36050314)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:33 PM
Author: concupiscible flatulent affirmative action

People who care about this are what make biglaw miserable, fyi

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641582)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:34 PM
Author: Histrionic haunted graveyard jap

"bake?" oh shit, I just proved your point. Bake me away, toys.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641586)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:36 PM
Author: concupiscible flatulent affirmative action

Damn you're fast

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641601)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:02 PM
Author: Histrionic haunted graveyard jap

That took several hours per my notebook of billables.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641760)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:14 PM
Author: concupiscible flatulent affirmative action



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641859)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:00 PM
Author: comical sound barrier whorehouse

Brother, clients pay $620 an hour for us to care about this so we can maintain credibility and prestige with judges.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641748)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:01 PM
Author: Fluffy bossy shrine

Judge: Well, I was going to rule in defendant's favor, but then I noticed inconsistent em-dashes. Summary judgment for the plaintiff!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641758)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:14 PM
Author: concupiscible flatulent affirmative action



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641861)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:14 PM
Author: concupiscible flatulent affirmative action

nobody whose time has any value gives one solitary fuck about this. its all dipshit mid level associates one upping each other.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641868)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:01 PM
Author: crystalline excitant corner

*BEEP BEEP BEEP*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641759)



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Date: March 20th, 2018 12:49 PM
Author: Violent Tattoo Cuck

killself

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35645224)



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Date: March 20th, 2018 12:51 PM
Author: mentally impaired pontificating cruise ship prole

alt 0151

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35645233)



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Date: March 20th, 2018 12:54 PM
Author: spectacular gold travel guidebook site

transhyphenist non bigot here

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35645255)



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Date: March 20th, 2018 12:56 PM
Author: violet unholy pervert

I see even the most elite firms -- literally Wachtell and Cravath and Kellog and other top places -- file briefs using hyphens instead of en dashes and using en dashes or -- god forbid -- two hyphens for em dashes. get it together motherfuckers.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35645274)



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Date: May 12th, 2018 9:02 PM
Author: rough-skinned church building

This is — the credited criticism — so say I.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#36038917)



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Date: May 12th, 2018 10:43 PM
Author: slimy jew main people

The SGs office is the last bastion of good writing in the profession. Their punctuation is always on point.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#36039460)



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Date: May 14th, 2018 7:39 PM
Author: stirring stag film

Worrying about this is the ultimate no book of business tell.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#36050530)