“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” ~ William Bruce Cameron, Informal Sociology, 1963

In response to last week’s Bard of the Bar post (Build Your House Part 2 – Blueprint), a colleague who receives this blog asked me to clarify what I meant by “annotated outline of the brief” in task five of the Blueprint Time Estimation Checklist. I would like to share my answer, and expound upon it a bit, in this post.

We lawyers are not known for being good writers. Perhaps that is because writing is hard. Someone once said writing is easy—just open a vein!