Twitter Brief Competition: an entire appellate brief in 140 characters or less?

That’s the challenge this year for lawyers attending the Sept. 8-9 annual meeting of the State Bar of Texas Appellate Section. The Twitter Brief Competition may be enough to make an appellate judge’s heart flutter. “We hear from judges all the time: They think our briefs should be shorter, more concise,” says Anne Johnson, co-chair of the section’s annual meeting committee. Johnson, a partner in Haynes and Boone in Dallas, says the appellate section hosts a fun competition each year challenging lawyers to write appeals using things such as limericks, Haiku poems and song lyrics. Searching for something different this year, the group turned to Twitter. The section will accept contest entries emailed to Johnson through Sept. 5. A Twitter competition makes sense because appellate lawyers already boil down complicated arguments into concise briefs, Johnson says. The section already has received many entries: Some are funny, some serious. Some use Twitter abbreviations and shortcuts while others comprise complete sentences with punctuation, she says. “My initial observations is we may see some generational differences,” Johnson says. She explains: “People who are used to posting on Twitter are going to have an advantage.” There’s another commonality among many competing Tweets so far: They focus on a “theme of waiver,” Johnson says. For example: “Honorable court, the claim has been waived. Respectfully submitted, appellee,” says Johnson, adding: “That’s an argument that is pretty simple and can be said pretty quickly.”
-- Angela Morris

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[George Lenard]

"People who are used to posting on Twitter are going to have an advantage" -- in this silly contest, maybe. In writing anything worth reading, no way. 140 characters is an insanely short limit and certainly one that discourages proper spelling, grammar, and punctuation. Lg contrib dumbdown commun & shallo thought IMHO.

[Bret Moore]

I'm not a member, but here goes.

The Trial Court directed the verdict, but cited no law in support. The judge abused her discretion. QED. Respectfully submitted, Appellant.

[Jennifer]

Ditto on @hopeful's comments!! xo

[hopeful]

Could you please start using multiple paragraph breaks in your content? It would make it much more readable. Thanks.