Persuasive writing is fundamental to the successful practice of law. But a brief must be readable before it can be persuasive, and an inherent tension exists between readability and the need to accurately cite sources. While the Bluebook, the most widely accepted guide for legal citation, provides explicit and well-reasoned rules for legal writers to properly cite the source of quoted material, passages with multiple layers of citation can quickly become jumbled with brackets, ellipses, and parenthetical information which often distracts from the author's argument and reasoning. How then, can an attorney balance readability and accuracy?  Attorney Jack Metzler proposes the use of the parenthetical (cleaned up)—and this suggestion is quickly gaining traction.