Michael's Muse
Well, the way one crafts the statement of the facts in a legal brief, the argument section, or even the conclusion of that brief can also cause that same kind of wounding of the heart for the judge or the panel of judges who will decide the fate of your client’s case. Please leave that part of the writing to me because I can definitely help! As John Keats once famously said, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” Combining the beauty of a marvelous, novel idea with the truths of your client’s legal case, something beyond the glittering lure of a flashy phrase, can lead to an unstoppable legal argument – a near-sure winner! Let me help you to help your client get that near sure win today!
Good poetry leads to good prose! Some of Michael’s favorite poetry left to him by his Dad, Joseph V. McCartin, include the following:
"He drew me up from the desolate pit, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my step secure. He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God."
King David From The Holy Bible
Psalm 40: 2-3
“All the world’s a stage And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances. And one man in his time plays many parts …"
William Shakespeare
From As You Like It
"She dwelt among the untrodden ways Besides the springs of Dove, … A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye. Fair as a star, when only one
Is shining in the sky.…”
William Wordsworth
From She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways
Beautiful Words Lead to Beautiful Results … St. Thomas Aquinas once remarked, “[T]he beautiful appeals to the cognitive power: for things that give pleasure when they are perceived ... are called beautiful." This, of course, is quite true, as Pope St. John Paul II confirmed in quoting Dostoyevsky: “[I]t has been said with profound insight that ‘beauty will save the world.’” The beauty of words can actually save your legal project! I am confident of this! So, l let me help you select those words and those ideas precisely, and I’m confident that you will be pleased with the outcome of your legal projects, too.
A novel idea can make all the difference in a legal brief. In the advertising world of the 1960s, John Hamm’s famous character in Mad Men came up with a novel idea incorporating the power of nostalgia. In that amazing scene, Hamm noted that, in Greek, the word nostalgia meant the pain from an old wound – that twinge of the heart that is as powerful as an old memory from a childhood past – from a time when we knew we were wrapped in a delicate and deep bond of love.