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Comment on Preparing Your Client For Deposition by Tom Harper

Tom Harper — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:22:21 +0000

I am an attorney who has been asked to give a presentation which includes the subject of “Preparing Your Client for a Deposition.” We are required to include a paper which may consist of articles on the subject. With your permission, I would like to include this Dec. 2, 2007 summary (with appropriate attribution) and possibly your “killer deposition questions.” Please confirm that I may do so.

Comment on Old Typewriter by Renie

Renie — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:29:26 +0000

My only question is, do those things do spell check???

Comment on Old Typewriter by David Newdorf

David Newdorf — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 04:59:19 +0000

Thanks, Dan. Yes, I remember feeding you the story half-sheet by half-sheet on deadline. I also remember you shuffling the pages on more than one occasion when I had “buried the lede.”

Comment on Old Typewriter by Dan

Dan — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 04:51:04 +0000

That thing with the half-sheets: Yes, that was definitely the way stories were written and edited. But the reason, from what I saw hustling stories to the city desk a graph at a time, was not ease of reorganization. It was speed. The rewrite guys — and they were all guys in the newsrooms where I started — wrote a graph at a time to expedite the process of getting the story in on a tight deadline. Each half-sheet had about four carbon sheets, and those would be distributed to the key editors around the desk. Those “dupes” (for duplicates) allowed the editor to keep track of how the story was taking shape graph by graph. I don’t think you’ll find any of that stuff on Wikipedia.