In this blog I will be Briefly Writing about brief writing.  However, I do not believe brief writing itself can be done briefly.  When I spend two or three weeks writing a 70 page brief to the Alabama Supreme Court, or a 14,000 word brief to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, my wife tells me that the calling the document a brief is a misnomer, or that a legal      brief is an oxymoron.  Perhaps so, but there is a good reason for the length of an appeal brief. While a trial court judge is a part of a case, along with the lawyers and the parties, and experiences the litigation over many months or even several years before a ruling or…