Dear Legal Community,

It has now become so overused, it's patently obvious that every single lawyer in the Western world is using the same damned Word template. Enough, I say! Enough!

It is clearly time to place the word "vigorously" to rest!

I would like to humbly suggest some alternatives you can use instead: strongly, forcefully, energetically, aggressively, heartily, eagerly, enthusiastically, with might and main (I like that one), for dear life (ideal when the accused is terminally short of cash), all out, with a vengeance, fiercely, like the devil, like the deuce, and "at full tilt".

For informal statements, such as press releases, you could try: "like mad", "like crazy", "hammer and tongs", and my personal recommendation: "like billy-o".

And, for the love of Pete, buy a fucking thesaurus! The Oxford University Press' online services are available at tolerable prices (which can be claimed as expenses!) Or you could just get the ODE / OTE app for iOS devices*.

Or there's the paper option known in the trade as a "book". These are increasingly considered very passé and unfashionable, but it does have a simple user interface and near-infinte battery life, which makes it ideal if, like most people in the legal profession, you're woefully out of touch and still refer to your radio as "the wireless".

* (Disclaimer: Other platforms do exist, etc.)

It is...

*Allegedly* time to put the use of the word vigorously to rest. Going forward.

Yawn

Toy, pram, no court in the land, etc.