The premise in Visual Rulemaking, by Professors Elizabeth Porter and Kathryn Watts—that graphics and visuals are gaining traction on the written word in the regulatory setting—seems to threaten the very nature of everything to which lawyers have dedicated their careers. But the transformation they identify is real and necessary. It’s increasingly true that to be successful in persuading an audience to adopt a point of view, lawyers need to transform their advocacy methods to employ new forms of communication, both relying on visuals as the authors discuss and—another concept antithetical to much legal training— adopting a theme of brevity.