The Lawyers Guide To Writing Well

Author : Tom Goldstein
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520929071
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lawyer's Guide to Writing Well written by Tom Goldstein and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-01-13 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eminently practical volume demystifies legal writing, outlines the causes and consequences of bad writing, and prescribes straightforward, easy-to-apply remedies that will make your writing readable. Complete with usage notes that address lawyers' most common errors, this well-organized book is both an invaluable tool for practicing lawyers and a sensible grounding for law students. This much-revised second edition contains a set of editing exercises (and a suggested revision key with explanations) to test your skill. This book is a definitive guide to becoming a better writer—and a better lawyer.

Author : Tom Goldstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Author : Stephen V. Armstrong
Publisher : Practising Law Inst
ISBN 13 : 9781402403187
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thinking Like a Writer written by Stephen V. Armstrong and published by Practising Law Inst. This book was released on 2003 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a different kind of book about legal writing. It assumes its readers are good writers who have already absorbed most of the usual advice about legal writing. But they may lack the intellectual framework for 'thinking like a writer' with the same incisiveness with which they think like a lawyer. This book provides that framework. It focuses on the underlying principles for communicating complicated information clearly and for establishing your credibility with demanding audiences. As a result, it helps to transform good writers into first-rate ones, and to make them far more efficient and powerful editors of their own writing and of others' drafts. Its unique approach will benefit supervising lawyers who do more editing than writing, as well as lawyers who do their own drafting.

Author : Steven D. Stark
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307888746
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing to Win written by Steven D. Stark and published by Crown. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a master teacher and writer, a fully revised and updated edition of the results-oriented approach to legal writing that is clear, that persuades—and that WINS. More than almost any profession, the law has a deserved reputation for opaque, jargon-clogged writing. Yet forceful writing is one of the most potent weapons of legal advocacy. In this new edition of Writing to Win, Steven D. Stark, a former lecturer on law at Harvard Law School, who has inspired thousands of aspiring and practicing lawyers, applies the universal principles of powerful, vigorous prose to the job of making a legal case—and winning it. Writing to Win focuses on the writing of lawyers, not judges, and includes dozens of examples of effective (and ineffective) real-life legal writing—as well as compelling models drawn from advertising, journalism, and fiction. It deals with the challenges lawyers face in writing, from organization to strengthening and editing prose; offers incisive ways of improving arguments; addresses litigation and technical writing in all its forms; and covers the writing attorneys must perform in their daily practice, from email memos to briefs and contracts. Each chapter opens with a succinct set of rules for easy reference. With new sections on client communication and drafting affidavits, as well as updated material throughout, Writing to Win is the most practical and efficacious legal-writing manual available.

Author : Stephen V. Armstrong
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781402437724
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thinking Like a Writer written by Stephen V. Armstrong and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ross Guberman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199943850
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Point Made written by Ross Guberman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Point Made, Ross Guberman uses the work of great advocates as the basis of a valuable, step-by-step brief-writing and motion-writing strategy for practitioners. The author takes an empirical approach, drawing heavily on the writings of the nation's 50 most influential lawyers.

Author : Tom Goldstein
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520963350
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lawyer's Guide to Writing Well written by Tom Goldstein and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-01-08 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this critically acclaimed book, Tom Goldstein and Jethro K. Lieberman demystify legal writing, outline the causes and consequences of poor writing, and prescribe easy-to-apply remedies to improve it. Reflecting changes in law practice over the past decade, this revised edition includes new sections around communicating digitally, getting to the point, and writing persuasively. It also provides an editing checklist, editing exercises with a suggested revision key, usage notes that address common errors, and reference works to further aid your writing. This straightforward guide is an invaluable tool for practicing lawyers and law students.

Author : Stephen V. Armstrong
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thinking Like a Writer written by Stephen V. Armstrong and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinking Like a Writer: A Lawyer's Guide to Effective Writing and Editing gives you the specialized knowledge and techniques to draft clear and compelling legal documents, no matter how complicated the issues involved.

Author : Terri LeClercq
Publisher : Aspen Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1454860243
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guide to Legal Writing Style written by Terri LeClercq and published by Aspen Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02-11 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise paperback focuses on the nuances of legal writing style and provides novice legal writers with the skills they need to polish their writing. Guide to Legal Writing Style, Fourth Edition, intended as an ancillary to any basic legal writing text, expands what students learn in their first-year courses by providing additional techniques and style tips that will help make their writing more precise, readable and elegant. This highly regarded paperback, specifically directed at legal writers, offers crisp, pointed advice written in a personal and humorous style lucid organization that helps students find the information they need most, including practice with basic skills and helpful advice on organization, sentence structure, word choice, punctuation, and formatting an emphasis on legal ethics throughout, with most of the examples and exercises focusing on ethical issues a chapter on organization that compares and contrasts undergraduate terms and goals with those expected by a legal audience a guide that helps students guard against plagiarism short, end-of-chapter exercises, with the answers at the back of the book, that strengthen skills and provide opportunities for self-testing Special features in the Fourth Edition include: an updated interactive CD-ROM with multiple exercises to reinforce the materials in the book, which includes updated and expanded tests of basic skills and click-on answers and explanations a new chapter testing common errors in professional writing, with explanations as well as succinct answers new checklists that reinforce essential advice of each chapter

Author : Veda Charrow
Publisher : Aspen Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1454837853
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clear and Effective Legal Writing written by Veda Charrow and published by Aspen Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its Fourth Edition, Clear and Effective Legal Writing continues to give students a classic introduction to legal analysis and legal writing. Concise and accessible, the text focuses on memo and brief writing while reinforcing key writing skills. This proven teaching tool provides the student with excellent examples and numerous skill-honing exercises. Offering comprehensive coverage from case synthesis and case briefing to preparing Supreme Court briefs, this text: starts with an overview of legal analysis, and then walks students through the writing process: understanding context, organizing effectively, writing clearly and effectively, and reviewing and editing describes differences between legal language and ordinary discourse, and the linguistic theory underlying the origins of legal language seamlessly combines legal reasoning with legal writing and helps the student understand the relationship between the two provides straightforward rules for writing effective legal documents, with scores of examples of the good, the bad, and the humorous includes numerous exercises throughout the book to help students reinforce their skills dissects and annotates actual trial court memoranda and Supreme Court briefs highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of each example provides an insightful interview with the Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States on what the Court expects to see in brief and the assistance that his office provides to all litigants appearing before the Court shows how to transform a memorandum into an advocacy document provides guidance for writing well in an appendix with overview of English sentence structure New to the Fourth Edition: updated examples throughout an updated legal process portion taking into account changes in law and updating examples a new set of Supreme Court briefs with annotations additional material addressing how the Internet is affecting court filings and formatting