Litigation
Cal. Litig. 2017, Volume 30, Number 3
Content
- A Transitional Center: The California Supreme Court 2016 - 2017
- Book Review of Give Us The Ballot: The Modern Struggle For Voting Rights in America by Ari Berman
- Editor's Foreword: The Curtain Rises for the CLA
- From the Section Chair
- How To Lose Your Appeal During Trial
- Litigation Section Executive Committee Past Chairs
- Masthead
- MCLE Test Questions for Self-Study Test (1 hour of credit)
- Past Editors-in-Chief
- San Francisco v. Trump: Defending Our Sanctuary City
- Table of Contents
- The ABC's of the TCPA
- The Closing Statement For The Defense
- The Party Line: Gerrymandering at the Supreme Court
- Give Your Persuasive Writing A Diamond's Sparkle
Give Your Persuasive Writing A Diamond’s Sparkle
By Ben Feuer
As rocks go, diamonds stand out. Carbon, trapped miles beneath the Earth’s surface and subjected to immense pressure for billions of years, morphs into a translucent crystal with atoms so closely bonded together the Greeks named the stones after a word meaning "unbreakable." Today, diamonds have complex cultural significance, and the $80 billion-a-year diamond industry shuttles gems across the globe with minimal friction.
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Operating this sophisticated, international industry led diamond traders to develop an efficient way of communicating about diamonds despite cultural and linguistic barriers. Since the 1950’s, specialty labs have issued formal certificates grading every diamond based on the "Four Cs" of diamond quality—clarity, cut, color, and carat. This approach translates everything important about a diamond into a simple, easy-to-communicate set of quantifiable measures.