Publication Date
5-28-2025
Document Type
Article
Abstract
In my antique desk, at the far back of the big hard-to-open drawer, sits a large brown envelope. The envelope holds about forty years’ worth of thank-you notes to me. Some from clients. Some from coworkers. Some from students. Why do I keep them? Maybe I will be able to answer that question by the time I finish writing this Article. As I write this Introduction, I’m not sure. I don’t specifically remember each card or letter, but a couple do come to mind. They do so with blazing clarity. One is from my high school English teacher, Mrs. Severns. She wrote me this letter some twenty years after I took her Senior writing class when we reconnected working together on a committee for a prairie restoration project at our high school.
Recommended Citation
Rappaport, Bret
(2025)
"Expressing Sincere Gratitude in Writing: A Modest Step Towards Being a Better and More Effective Lawyer,"
Mercer Law Review: Vol. 76:
No.
3, Article 11.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.law.mercer.edu/jour_mlr/vol76/iss3/11