"Why can't they be like we were, perfect in every way?" --Bye Bye Birdie (1960) Lawyers should write like Ernest Hemingway.  Pick up one of his books; open to a page at random; choose any paragraph; read it. See for yourself:  "We packed the lunch and two bottles of wine in the rucksack, and Bill put it on. I carried the rodcase and the landing nets slung over my back. We started up the road and then went across a meadow and found a path that crossed the fields and went towar...