On The Importance of Proofreading

See here for a particularly egregious example of a court filing that has not been properly proofread. Compare, in particular, the phrase ‘disc herniation’ on p 2 with its corresponding incarnation on p 1. Whether malapropism, typographical error, or simply the joke of a bored clerk, the attorneys concerned must be considerably embarrassed. Given that such errors are commonly the result of replacing the intended word with a habitually typed word (I often find myself typing ‘brick-lawyer’), it does beg the question of what the author normally writes in their submissions…

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