A well-written complaint can frame legal facts to compel relief.

Evidence

Douglas Kysar, a professor of torts at Yale Law School, reached out to my attorneys and to me personally. In an email, he wrote: “The complaint in Lanier v. President and Fellows of Harvard College should be taught in every law school in America. In just two introductory pages, the wrenching facts of Harvard’s past treatment of Renty and Delia, and present misconduct toward Ms. Lanier, are conveyed in a way that connects those facts and Harvard as an institution to the country’s larger history of slavery, oppression, and racism. After reading those two pages, any judge presiding over the case will already be looking for a way to grant relief to Ms. Lanier. — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 1145

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s broader interest in how narrative framing operates inside formal legal documents, parallel to rhetorical craft in other sources.