I say this as someone who once mistakenly submitted a paper in law school that included this banger line: [INSERT CONCLUSION HERE] bsky.app/profile/anna...
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I wrote a memo to the Mass. Parole Commission (or whatever their name is) that had an intro about my client, who was seeking parole for 2nd degree murder, and then launched into another paragraph, "He has had a drink since that day." Not. Not had. That's what I was going for. (Paroled, though!)
sep 1, 2025, 11:56 pm • 17 0 • view
All is well that ends well!!
sep 2, 2025, 12:01 am • 15 1 • view
😂 that’s awesome.
sep 2, 2025, 12:49 am • 0 0 • view
The stuff of nightmares. (As someone VERY prone to these types of errors, I have learned to always seach for square brackets and tracked changes before filing.)
sep 2, 2025, 3:37 am • 0 0 • view
That's nothing. When I did that during law school, it was intentional!!! (No it wasn't.)
sep 2, 2025, 12:24 am • 0 0 • view
is this a ChatGPT/AI thing? I recently had to call out two co-authors for sending me an Introduction section clearly written by AI that just said things like [REFS]
sep 1, 2025, 11:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Haha, no, I was definitely in law school before ChatGPT. Maybe AI does it too but I know a lot of writers who use bracketed text as a placeholder.
sep 2, 2025, 12:00 am • 9 0 • view
[Mailmerge] memories 👵🏼
sep 2, 2025, 12:21 am • 3 0 • view
No, it’s just human error. Sometimes when you’re in the middle of writing a brief, you don’t want to stop and look up a specific cite, so you leave a placeholder to enter later. Every lawyer does it, but 99% get caught before filing.
sep 2, 2025, 2:11 am • 0 0 • view
A former co-worker once used something like FUCKWIT as a placeholder in an indictment and forgot to do that final CTRL-F.
sep 2, 2025, 12:06 am • 2 0 • view
Programmers use: #error INSERT CONCLUSION HERE
sep 2, 2025, 12:32 am • 2 0 • view
I do this all the time when I write, but this is also why I make everything inside the brackets bolded and bright red so there is NO mistaking it on the page. Because I am an idiot. :D
sep 1, 2025, 11:57 pm • 11 0 • view
Honestly, I highlight. I don't trust myself even a little bit.
sep 2, 2025, 12:07 am • 2 0 • view
When I'm writing and making notes to myself in the draft, I put three exclamation points before and after the note, and do a search for them before considering it final.
sep 2, 2025, 12:14 am • 6 0 • view
Same, but in yellow.
sep 2, 2025, 2:41 am • 0 0 • view
[redacted]
sep 2, 2025, 12:00 am • 10 0 • view
I'm just saying, y'all's softwares need a tool that uses this fancy tech \[[^\]]*\] That should work in your computers find and replace if it has a checkbox for "Regular Expressions" or Regex
sep 2, 2025, 12:08 am • 1 0 • view
\[ → match a literal opening [ [^\]]* → match zero or more characters that are not ] \] → match a literal closing ] Together, it matches anything inside square brackets like [hello world]. --- If, after \[, you add (?!\d+\]), it will skip things like numeric refs like [13]
sep 2, 2025, 1:26 am • 0 0 • view
My husband, an editor, included on his resume the phrase “expert profreader”
sep 2, 2025, 12:16 am • 9 1 • view
As a programmer, it's a bit surprising to me that they apparently don't have any sort of automated QA tooling to catch this stuff. Or at least the folks left at DOJ don't know how to use it if they have it. We always automatically have a linter run on what we write before it can can external damage.
sep 2, 2025, 12:40 am • 2 0 • view
Programmers have all learned that trusting programmers is doomed to failure. I guess lawyers have more faith in themselves. The current crop at DOJ seem to have *enormous* faith in themselves, which is always a bit of a red flag.
sep 2, 2025, 12:40 am • 4 0 • view
Having the capacity for multiple levels of review for drafting is such a pleasure and a luxury.
sep 1, 2025, 11:56 pm • 2 0 • view
😂
sep 1, 2025, 11:55 pm • 0 0 • view
I once submitted a CV eith the line "i have a strong attention to detail and "
sep 2, 2025, 12:26 am • 4 0 • view
That is why, when I am writing a long paper, I insert 3 repeated letters to identify areas I need to go back to: fill in data, a graph, a citation, etc. I remove the letters when I fill in a gap. Just use the Find feature to be sure I have covered everything.
sep 2, 2025, 1:05 am • 3 0 • view
Many papers I submitted during my doctorate contained similar errors. AS A STUDENT. JFC.
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