The Lawyer's Guide to Writing Well Author:Tom Goldstein, Jethro K. Lieberman This best-selling, 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. Usage notes address lawyers' most common errors, and editing exercises (with a suggested revision key that includes detailed exp... more »lanations) allow you to test your skills, making this an invaluable tool for practicing lawyers as well as a sensible grounding for law students. This much-revised third edition contains examples of lawyers? original prose and provides a robust set of techniques that you can use to shorten, sharpen, and shape the words that constitute your livelihood.
New chapters in this edition cover such important topics as: