Someone must have told my client to eliminate "that" from her manuscript because she has diligently removed all instances.

It's true that "that" is often overused, but it does have a place in our language.

#Writers: Any rule that says to "never" use a certain word or part of speech will lead you down the wrong path.

@KPED I see this a lot in student writing. Drives me nuts. Without the relative pronoun 'that', there's more mental effort to shift into the clause it ought to be pointing at.