The Lawyer's Guide to Writing Well

The Lawyer's Guide to Writing Well

PAPERBACK

13 Jan, 2003

This eminently practical volume demystifies legal writing, outlines the causes and consequences of bad writing, and prescribes straightforward, easy-to-app ...

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ISBN-10:

0520234731

ISBN-13:

9780520234734

Publisher

University of California Press

Dimensions

8.94 X 6.02 X 0.71 inches

Language

English

Description

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.

Product Details

ISBN-10

:0520234731

ISBN-13

:9780520234734

Publisher

:University of California Press

Publication date

: 13 Jan, 2003

Category

: Law

Sub-Category

: Legal Writing

Format

:PAPERBACK

Language

:English

Reading Level

: All

Dimension

: 8.94 X 6.02 X 0.71 inches

Weight

:404 g

About the Author

Tom Goldstein is former Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University and author of Killing the Messenger: 100 Years of Media Criticism (1989) and The News at Any Cost: How Journalists Compromise Their Ethics to Shape the News (1985). Jethro K. Lieberman is Associate Dean, Professor of Law, and Director of the Writing Program at New York Law School, as well as Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. He is the coauthor of The Lawyer's Craft: An Introduction to Legal Analysis, Writing, Research, and Advocacy (2002) and author of A Practical Companion to the Constitution: How the Supreme Court Has Ruled on Issues from Abortion to Zoning (California, 1999).

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