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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:02 PM
Author: chartreuse erotic institution trust fund

I see even the most elite firms (literally Wachtell and Cravath and Kellog and other top places) file briefs using hyphens instead of en dashes and using en dashes or, god forbid, two hyphens for em dashes. get it together motherfuckers.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641306)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:11 PM
Author: cracking lodge lettuce

Two hyphens for em dashes isn't that bad. It's just ugly.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641398)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:13 PM
Author: chartreuse erotic institution trust fund

it's despicable

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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:03 PM
Author: tantric public bath

Saw a guy get fired for this and straight up walked out before he jumped off the roof

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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:04 PM
Author: Medicated provocative parlor faggot firefighter

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Date: March 20th, 2018 12:53 PM
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Date: March 22nd, 2018 12:22 AM
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Date: May 14th, 2018 6:55 PM
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:04 PM
Author: Blathering pozpig

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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:05 PM
Author: Medicated provocative parlor faggot firefighter



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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:06 PM
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:06 PM
Author: chartreuse erotic institution trust fund

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(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641347)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:07 PM
Author: Medicated provocative parlor faggot firefighter

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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:10 PM
Author: chartreuse erotic institution trust fund

I'm open to hearing an explanation. But I consider myself a punctuation hardliner and literally have no idea what you are talking about.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641383)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:14 PM
Author: wine theatre

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Date: March 20th, 2018 12:55 PM
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:07 PM
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:10 PM
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:12 PM
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:05 PM
Author: Exhilarant stage gaping

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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:05 PM
Author: Dashing crackhouse fanboi

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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:12 PM
Author: Cowardly Point

Real pain in the ass in patent cases because you can’t just replace all

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641407)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:16 PM
Author: chartreuse erotic institution trust fund

You know what is really fucking insane is when people point the apostrophe the wrong way in patent cases. You see this all the time. Probably greater than 50% of the time, a biglaw firm will write about the 999 patent and have the apostrophe at the beginning pointing the wrong way.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641435)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:03 PM
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Date: March 21st, 2018 12:17 PM
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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:14 PM
Author: wine theatre



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 12:18 AM
Author: Titillating bbw dilemma

i correct every goddamn one. the founding fathers talked about patents in the goddamn constitution for fucks sake show a little respect

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35658723)



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Date: May 12th, 2018 9:01 PM
Author: chartreuse erotic institution trust fund

Good job man. We’d be friends.

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Date: May 12th, 2018 9:05 PM
Author: cyan stain center

This is a little known fact: the CAFC shreds your brief if they see a straight or backwards quote.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#36038931)



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Date: May 12th, 2018 9:07 PM
Author: chartreuse erotic institution trust fund

Btw, why can’t you use the replace function in patent cases??? I’d like an explanation.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#36038946)



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Date: May 14th, 2018 6:54 PM
Author: cyan stain center

It flips them all so they curl away from the number.

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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:05 PM
Author: swashbuckling depressive weed whacker

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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:06 PM
Author: Medicated provocative parlor faggot firefighter

you can typically just use a voice command ime

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641345)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:06 PM
Author: bateful kitchen organic girlfriend

Using hyphens instead of en dashes to save a line when faced with a page limit: decadent or shrewd?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641343)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:09 PM
Author: chartreuse erotic institution trust fund

Honestly the one situation where I have been tempted to use a hyphen instead of an en dash (and, on occasion, have succumbed) is when faced with a strict word limit. If you use an en dash, Microsoft Word records the range as two words whereas it records a single word if you use a hyphen. But it is incorrect usage and I've always been tempted to call people out for violating the word count where they hit it exactly while employing 50 hyphens in the place of en dashes.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641372)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:10 PM
Author: Exhilarant stage gaping

You could have avoided all this just by doing better in HS calculus

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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:11 PM
Author: Medicated provocative parlor faggot firefighter



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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:13 PM
Author: cracking lodge lettuce

Most lawyers did just fine in HS math.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641414)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:11 PM
Author: Concupiscible station ceo

The industrial revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641395)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:15 PM
Author: cracking lodge lettuce

Amateur!

Increase the font scale setting to increase the hyphen to 300%.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641430)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:18 PM
Author: chartreuse erotic institution trust fund

This is conscious rules flouting and robs you of your plausible deniability. Many jurisdictions, for example Delaware, now require briefs to be filed in Word format.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641456)



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Date: May 14th, 2018 6:59 PM
Author: cracking lodge lettuce

Very TTT.

But who's going to check?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#36050314)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:33 PM
Author: swashbuckling depressive weed whacker

People who care about this are what make biglaw miserable, fyi

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641582)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:34 PM
Author: wine theatre

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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:36 PM
Author: swashbuckling depressive weed whacker

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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:02 PM
Author: wine theatre

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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:14 PM
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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:00 PM
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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:01 PM
Author: Concupiscible station ceo

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(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35641758)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:14 PM
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Date: March 19th, 2018 10:14 PM
Author: swashbuckling depressive weed whacker

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Date: March 20th, 2018 12:49 PM
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Date: March 20th, 2018 12:54 PM
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Date: March 20th, 2018 12:56 PM
Author: slate piazza

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(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923252&forum_id=2#35645274)



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Date: May 12th, 2018 9:02 PM
Author: jade tanning salon

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Date: May 12th, 2018 10:43 PM
Author: cyan stain center

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