Evan Granowitz: The role of language in the legal profession

Evan Granowitz is a civil litigator from Wolf Group LA. This blog article talks about the role of language in the legal profession.

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Language has to serve the truth, even more in a profession that puts freedom and justice on the line. Inside the legal profession, glibness and eloquence have a price. Between linguistic clarity and vagueness, the cost is often too high.


The linguistic element of the legal profession has long been a crucial part of a vocation that requires eloquence. Lawyers are typically expected to possess such gifts of fluency in language—if not the skill to be articulate and sound in every argument.

Evan Granowitz was Southern California’s Rising Star in 2009 and 2010.

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In front of a jury or a judge, such persuasive eloquence spells a difference between conviction or acquittal for the defendant or victory and defeat for the plaintiff. The magnanimity of consequence borne out of the possession or absence of skills in language puts lawyers duty-bound, even just at a personal level, to master language like an art. The mastery of language, though, carries in itself the obligation to be succinct and clear.


This is the real challenge for most lawyers who wade into linguistic obscurity—the power of persuasion, whether in oral arguments or in writing a legal document, must never be a smokescreen.

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