Author name: Thane Ritchie

“To do these things well, most lawyers must forget everything they ever learned in law school…” This is the advice that the award winning author, Bryan Garner, holder of three honorary degrees, gives on legal writing.

He urges lawyers to stop muddying the waters for Judges. Identify the main issue and give the Judge a quick and clear brief. Garner’s legal advice mirror the findings from a NYU psychological experiment on quick decision-making. Efficiency and concise argumentation bring success in many different vocations.

Why has Oxford climbed to the top spot on some surveys of the worlds best Universities? There seem to be a couple of main reasons for the ranking. One is a renewed emphasis on the hard sciences at Oxford in recent years. Oxford’s tradition as a bastion of literary arts and philosophy remain but are giving way to the needs of the modern workplace which requires first rate math and science education…