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Writing Conventions

Gender Conventions: When referring to lawyers in singular, the author uses either he or she. Obviously there are both male and female lawyers, and the choice of pronoun is not intended to imply anything about a hypothetical individual lawyer in a given situation.

Sources and Citations: This website is not an academic publication. As such, it does not follow scholarly conventions for citations. Specific resources are noted where they provide specific information that supports a point made in this website, or where they will be useful to the reader.

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