Memory lane

[jmc_bks]

Yesterday, I spent a couple of hours reading a class action complaint at work.  It wasn't terribly long, but it mapped out a bunch of entities and charges.  The volume of typos made my brain hurt.  They ranged from misuse of its and it's; variable misspellings of defendants and related entity names; wonky punctuation; and unclosed parenthetical

Comments

[why_me_why_not]

That's sad that there were so many typos in a legal document. People these days, I'll never understand them.

That's a super strange coincidence that you learned of his passing just after you'd been thinking of him.

[jmc_bks]

I think (with no empirical evidence to support this) that attorneys drafting pleadings on their computers without any intervening reviewer, whether it's another attorney or a paralegal or a secretary, just don't see typos in their own work product. I'm that way, and have to put documents away, then come back and print them in hard copy to edit and proof.