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Typography for Lawyers

This is an excellent resource for lawyers or almost anyone else who spends part of their day writing.

Take this examination of the em dash—my absolute favourite character—as an example:

The em dash is a versatile mark used to signal a break between sentence phrases. Use it when a comma is not quite enough, but a colon, semicolon or set of parentheses is a little too much.

Em dashes put a nice pause in the text—they are underused in legal writing.

Far beyond legal writing, the em dash is almost criminally underused in all forms of writing.

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