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April 2, 2019 By Debra Slone Leave a Comment

Tips For Writing Effective Pleadings

Writing Effective Pleadings

While the job of a motion is to persuade a judge to rule in your favor on a single issue, the purpose of writing a pleading is to make allegations of fact clear to both the court and the opposing party. Following these writing tips, will help you make those points more effectively.

Tagged With: affirmative defenses, answer, complaint, counterclaim, formatting, pleading

July 9, 2015 By Sonja Ebron 11 Comments

How To Plead A Condition Precedent To A Claim

conditions precedent

Those sneaky rules of civil procedure can trip you up on conditions precedent. These are preconditions to filing suit, and if you don’t handle them right — as either plaintiff or defendant — you can sacrifice your claim or defense. If one exists and the plaintiff doesn’t address it, then the case can be dismissed. But if the plaintiff addresses it and the defendant doesn’t deny the allegation in just the right way, the failure of a condition precedent no longer works as a defense. This is one you definitely want to get right.

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