Proofreading may be boring. But it’s important, and part of who you are if you are in the business of turning words into money and value. Here’s a comment by Minneapolis lawyer T.J. Conley–he gives us wisdom and a tip–in response to yesterday’s post:
One of the senior lawyers at our firm used to say that you are only as good a lawyer as you are a proofreader. One of my tricks, to avoid the natural tendency to see what you think should be there, is to read a document backwards. You’d be amazed at what you catch.