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What's Your Practice, In Six Words?

Posted Jan 29 2009 by Nancy Hupp in Commentary with 8 Comments

Lawyers are communicators and wordsmiths, right? But can they be succinct, pithy? Here’s your challenge of the day. Describe your practice, in six words*. Every sentence in this post complies. None over the six word limit.

We did it, but can you? Some examples, in no particular order:

  • Please, please see it my way. – Appellate Practice
  • Is too. Is not. Is too. – Civil Litigation
  • Lived. Died. Four Kids. All Theirs. – Probate

* for some inspiration, see Six-Word Memoirs. Six-Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak. A story on National Public Radio. A review in the New Yorker. A memoir collection on SMITH Magazine. Hemingway was a master at it.  “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”

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Nancy Hupp - Nancy is the practicelaw Director at the MSBA, where she plans, solicits, drafts, and edits practice-related content for practicelaw. After graduating from the University of Illinois College of Law in 1983, she worked in a mid-size civil practice firm in St. Paul specializing in real estate matters. She then left private practice and started teaching. She taught as an Assistant Professor in Hamline University’s undergraduate Legal Studies Department and later, as an Adjunct Writing Professor at William Mitchell College of Law. She and her husband have three children and live in Minneapolis.

8 Comments


  1. Henny Youngman
    May 15, 2009

    Take my wife (nothing else), please.

    -Family Law

    (reply)

  2. Floyd Grabiel
    Apr 01, 2009

    In House Practice:

    I put out fires every day.

    (reply)

  3. Darryl Weiss
    Mar 13, 2009

    Corporate, transactions, international, contracts.

    What are the most popular names for lawyer’s kids? Bill and Sue

    (reply)

  4. Insurance Coverage Defense
    Jan 30, 2009

    Read the policy. We don’t owe.

    (reply)

  5. B. Dunn - Insurance defense litigation
    Jan 30, 2009

    Plaintiff, Liar. Defendant, Knight. Armor. Shiny.

    – or -

    Judge, it’s not my file, but …

    (reply)

  6. Government Relations
    Jan 30, 2009

    I will have the shrimp cocktail.

    (reply)

  7. Henny Youngman
    Jan 30, 2009

    Take my wife (nothing else), please.

    -Family Law

    (reply)

  8. Estate Planning
    Jan 29, 2009

    It is not “if” I die…

    (reply)

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