{"id":133621,"date":"2025-09-19T16:55:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T00:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/09\/19\/stats-of-the-week-law-firm-cliches\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T16:55:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T00:55:49","slug":"stats-of-the-week-law-firm-cliches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/09\/19\/stats-of-the-week-law-firm-cliches\/","title":{"rendered":"Stat(s) Of The Week: Law Firm Cliches"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/stat-of-the-week-image.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-110065\" title=\"\"><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cLeading\u201d is the leading word in law firm-produced business announcements in the U.S. and U.K., according to a new study, while the markets appear to differ the most in how they express professional joy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The \u201c10 Most Overused Words in Legal Press Releases\u201d report by the PR firm Infinite explores the frequency of descriptors like \u201ccutting edge\u201d and \u201ctop tier,\u201d along with other common press release terms.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One notable gap: U.S. firms are far more likely to be \u201cpleased\u201d with a development, while those in the U.K. are far more likely to be \u201cdelighted.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/news\/article\/law-firms-advised-to-mind-their-pleaseds-and-thrilleds-after-study-reveals-top-overused-words-in-press-releases\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The study was detailed this week in the ABA Journal<\/a>. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/infiniteglobal.com\/research\/infinite-study-reveals-most-overused-words-in-us-and-uk-law-firm-press-releases\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">check out the report here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\">\n<p><strong><em>Jeremy Barker is the director of content marketing for Breaking Media. Feel free to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:jbarker@breakingmedia.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">email him<\/a>\u00a0with questions or comments and to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jeremy-barker-925b63375\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">connect on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/09\/stats-of-the-week-law-firm-cliches\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stat(s) Of The Week: Law Firm Cliches<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/stat-of-the-week-image.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-110065\" title=\"\"><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cLeading\u201d is the leading word in law firm-produced business announcements in the U.S. and U.K., according to a new study, while the markets appear to differ the most in how they express professional joy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The \u201c10 Most Overused Words in Legal Press Releases\u201d report by the PR firm Infinite explores the frequency of descriptors like \u201ccutting edge\u201d and \u201ctop tier,\u201d along with other common press release terms.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One notable gap: U.S. firms are far more likely to be \u201cpleased\u201d with a development, while those in the U.K. are far more likely to be \u201cdelighted.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/news\/article\/law-firms-advised-to-mind-their-pleaseds-and-thrilleds-after-study-reveals-top-overused-words-in-press-releases\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The study was detailed this week in the ABA Journal<\/a>. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/infiniteglobal.com\/research\/infinite-study-reveals-most-overused-words-in-us-and-uk-law-firm-press-releases\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">check out the report here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n<p><strong><em>Jeremy Barker is the director of content marketing for Breaking Media. Feel free to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#a1cbc3c0d3cac4d3e1c3d3c4c0cac8cfc6ccc4c5c8c08fc2cecc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">email him<\/a>\u00a0with questions or comments and to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jeremy-barker-925b63375\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">connect on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLeading\u201d is the leading word in law firm-produced business announcements in the U.S. and U.K., according to a new study, while the markets appear to differ the most in how they express professional joy.\u00a0 The \u201c10 Most Overused Words in Legal Press Releases\u201d report by the PR firm Infinite explores the frequency of descriptors like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":133622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/stat-of-the-week-image-c16CwO.jpg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}