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For an advocate, no tool is more crucial to professional success than a mastery of language. While this principle applies to any profession reliant on words, it is especially true in advocacy, where both written and spoken language play a decisive role. Given that a vast body of legal material is in English, this article will focus specifically on an advocate's command of the English language.

A lawyer needs to write a lot compared to any other professional. Writing is a skill which anyone can acquire. Without good drafting skills no lawyer can survive. Writing is not just confined to constructing grammatically perfect sentences, with proper spelling and punctuation. It is much more than that.