Grammar for Lawyers Audio Course: Lesson 6 — Consistent Legal Communication
- Macson Bell Business & Law
- 4 days ago
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Updated: 4 days ago
Many drafting failures don’t involve dramatic mistakes. They involve drift. A shifted spelling here, a capital letter that wanders off, a defined term that suddenly develops a twin — and before long, a document that should feel coherent begins to feel unstable.
Consistency: The Hidden Architecture of Legal Communication
Consistency is structural support. When your wording shifts, your meaning appears to shift with it. Readers start asking: Did the obligation change, or just the spelling?
But something else happens — something far more damaging.
They start questioning the professionalism of the writer. If a drafter overlooks basic consistency, the reader wonders what else has been overlooked. In legal work, doubts rarely stay confined to grammar; they spill into assumptions about judgment, accuracy, and care.
A document that feels inconsistent makes its author feel inconsistent, and that is never an advantage in a profession built on trust and precision.