The Lawyer S Style Guide

Author : Peter Butt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 968 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509936267

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The Lawyer’s Style Guide by Peter Butt Pdf

Clarity and precision in legal writing are essential skills in the practice and study of law. This book offers a straightforward, practical guide to effective legal style from a world-leading expert. The book is thoughtfully structured to explain the elements of good legal writing and its most effective use. It catalogues all aspects of legal style, topic by topic, phrase by phrase, usage by usage. It scrutinises them all, suggesting improvements. Its 'dictionary' arrangement makes it easy to navigate. Topics range as widely as ambiguity, definitions, provisos, recitals, simplified outlines, terms of art, tone, and the various principles of legal interpretation. Words and phrases deal with legal expressions that non-lawyers find opaque and obscure. The purpose is to show that you can usually substitute a plain-English equivalent. Usage entries include matters such as abbreviations, acronyms, active and passive voice, brackets, bullet points, citation methods, cross-referencing, deeds, fonts, document design, footnotes, gender-neutral language, numbering systems, plain language, punctuation, the use of Latin, structures for legal advices and documents, and techniques for editing and proofreading. With an emphasis on technical effectiveness and understanding, the book is required reading for all those engaged in the practice and study of law.

Author : Ian Gallacher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063830801

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A Form and Style Manual for Lawyers by Ian Gallacher Pdf

All lawyers write, and the documents they write must be clear, technically perfect, and effective. This concise manual guides lawyers, law students, and paralegals through all phases of the writing process, from preparing to write to polishing a finished draft. Written in accessible, easy-to-understand language, it offers practical suggestions on outlining and establishing deadlines as well as comprehensive, jargon-free advice on grammar, punctuation, usage, document formatting, editing and proofreading. The manual is written by an experienced teacher and practitioner and is intended as a reference for lawyers at all levels of experience who know what they want to write but who might have forgotten the details of the more mechanical aspects of writing. Uncluttered by lengthy examples or exercises, this short reference work provides brief illustrations to clarify the text and focuses on helping writers produce legal documents of all types that are easily read, technically accurate, and effective.

Author : United Office of the Solicitor General,United States Department Of Justice Offi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0991116321

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The Solicitor General's Style Guide by United Office of the Solicitor General,United States Department Of Justice Offi Pdf

Completely updated The Solicitor General, who represents the United States in the nation's highest court, is the only official of the U.S. government required by federal law to be "learned in the law." Now in its second edition, The Solicitor General's Style Guide contains the manual used by the Office of the Solicitor General in preparing briefs to be filed in the Supreme Court. It contains three separate guides: Office of the Solicitor General Citation Manual, Office of the Solicitor General Supplement to the Supreme Court Rules, and Office of the Solicitor General Writing Preferences. Supreme Court Justice Scalia and legal writing guru Bryan Garner have extolled the Solicitor General's briefs as models for other lawyers to follow. Now the citation and style secrets behind those briefs are available to lawyers and fans of the Solicitor General and the Supreme Court. New for the second edition: New, perhaps even secret grammar preferences New abbreviation preferences New typography preferences Updated for the 19th edition of the Bluebook Much more The Solicitor General's Style Guide cannot help you write like the Solicitor General, but now you can cite like the Solicitor General

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:311789085

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Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation by Anonim Pdf

Author : Office of the Solicitor United States Department Of Justice
Publisher : Inter Alias
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0991116356

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The Solicitor General's Style Guide by Office of the Solicitor United States Department Of Justice Pdf

Completely updated in 2018! Now in its third edition, The Solicitor General's Style Guide contains the manual used by the Office of the Solicitor General in preparing briefs to be filed in the Supreme Court. It contains three separate guides: Office of the Solicitor General Citation Manual, Office of the Solicitor General Supplement to the Supreme Court Rules, and Office of the Solicitor General Writing Preferences. Supreme Court Justice Scalia and legal writing guru Bryan Garner have extolled the Solicitor General's briefs as models for other lawyers to follow. Now the citation and style secrets behind those briefs are available to lawyers and fans of the Solicitor General and the Supreme Court. The Third Edition contains new information or preferences for 38 rules, new examples for 25 rules, and 14 never-before-seen rules.

Author : Tom Goldstein,Jethro K. Lieberman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780520929074

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The Lawyer's Guide to Writing Well by Tom Goldstein,Jethro K. Lieberman Pdf

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 : Guillermo C. Jimenez,Barbara Kolsun
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781609018610

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Fashion Law by Guillermo C. Jimenez,Barbara Kolsun Pdf

In today's highly competitive global market, fashion designers, entrepreneurs, and executives need state, federal, and international laws to protect their intellectual property-their brands and the products by which their customers recognize them. Fashion Law provides a concise and practical guide to the full range of legal issues faced by a fashion company as it grows from infancy to international stature. Updated to reflect recent legal decisions and regulatory developments, this revised edition covers such vital issues as intellectual property protection and litigation, licensing, anti-counterfeiting, start-ups and finance, commercial transactions, retail property leasing, employment regulations, advertising and marketing, celebrity endorsements, and international trade. Features of the text help to make legal concepts accessible to the lay reader. More than 25 leading attorneys practicing in the emerging legal specialty of fashion law contributed the chapters for this authoritative text, and their expertise provides a foundation for fashion professionals and their legal advisors to work together effectively. New to this Edition -Expanded section on Intellectual Property protection, including an all new Chapter 6 on Litigation -All new Chapter 10 on Fashion Finance Features Features -Box Features provide real-life examples that demonstrate the role that law plays in the fashion business, including landmark court cases and current events -Practice Tips discuss legal issues that should be considered as fashion designers and executives establish procedures for conducting their business -Sample Clauses familiarize readers with the legal language that covers the rights and responsibilities of the parties to agreements -Instructor's Guide and PowerPoint® presentations available.

Author : Geoff McLay,Christopher Murray,Jonathan Orpin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Annotations and citations (Law)
ISBN : 0864726902

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New Zealand Law Style Guide by Geoff McLay,Christopher Murray,Jonathan Orpin Pdf

The New Zealand Law Style Guide seeks to remedy the inconsistent use of styles and provide a unified framework which the Courts, law schools, legal practices and legal publishers can follow.

Author : Deborah E. Cupples,Margaret Temple-Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Law
ISBN : 0314288074

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Grammar, Punctuation & Style by Deborah E. Cupples,Margaret Temple-Smith Pdf

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Author : Joan Ames Magat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Editing
ISBN : 1594605386

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The Lawyer's Editing Manual by Joan Ames Magat Pdf

While other manuals cover citation conventions, The Lawyer's Editing Manual covers all the rest that the legal writer -- and the editor -- ought to know: conventions that underlie effective formal prose, including grammar and punctuation, the effective use of quotations, and usage and style. "Rules" -- meaning conventions most universally accepted -- are stated, but so are their exceptions and, when possible, the logic for each. The legal writer's ability to communicate to the reader directly and clearly is guided not just by "correct" prose, but by stylistic conventions that further its effectiveness. The Lawyer's Editing Manual thus includes advice on unambiguous word choice and modifier placement, conciseness, sentence and paragraph structure, and effective transitions. The manual ends with conventions inspired less by consensus than by the reader's reliance on consistency, such as whether and what to capitalize or how to treat abbreviations, symbols, and lists. For these, it matters less what the writer or editor chooses to do than that the choice be consistently applied: such details should never distract from the sense of what is being written. In short, The Lawyer's Editing Manual will help legal writers craft or edit clear, concise, connected prose. It is an invaluable tool to ensure that the writer's message reaches the reader's understanding enhanced, not impeded, by the form of its communication.

Author : Peter Butt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 965 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509936243

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The Lawyer's Style Guide by Peter Butt Pdf

"Clarity and precision in legal writing are essential skills in the practice and study of law. This book offers a straightforward, practical guide to effective legal style from a world-leading expert. The book is thoughtfully structured to explain the elements of good legal writing and its most effective use. It catalogues all aspects of legal style, topic by topic, phrase by phrase, usage by usage. It scrutinises them all, suggesting improvements. Its 'dictionary' arrangement makes it easy to navigate. Topics range as widely as ambiguity, definitions, provisos, recitals, simplified outlines, terms of art, tone, and the various principles of legal interpretation. Words and phrases deal with legal expressions that non-lawyers find opaque and obscure. The purpose is to show that you can usually substitute a plain-English equivalent. Usage entries include matters such as abbreviations, acronyms, active and passive voice, brackets, bullet points, citation methods, cross-referencing, deeds, fonts, document design, footnotes, gender-neutral language, numbering systems, plain language, punctuation, the use of Latin, structures for legal advices and documents, and techniques for editing and proofreading. With an emphasis on technical effectiveness and understanding, the book is required reading for all those engaged in the practice and study of law"--

Author : Marie P. Buckley,Ilissa K. Povich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Law
ISBN : 1616329653

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The Lawyer's Essential Guide to Writing by Marie P. Buckley,Ilissa K. Povich Pdf

The Lawyer's Essential Guide to Writing is a readable, concrete guide to contemporary legal writing. Based on Marie Buckley's years of experience coaching lawyers, this book provides a systematic approach to all forms of written communication, from memoranda and briefs to e-mail and blogs. The book sets forth three principles for powerful writing and shows how to apply those principles to develop a clean and confident style.

Author : Deborah Cupples
Publisher : West Academic Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 1642420662

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Grammar, Punctuation, and Style by Deborah Cupples Pdf

This guide is easy-to-read for all types of writers and includes notes for legal professionals. The authors consulted multiple grammar-related sources in their research, so readers would not have to. The book contains the following: Rules of grammar and punctuation, with examples Key grammatical terms necessary for understanding rules Citations to grammatical and legal sources Style tips Self-test exercises and answers An easy-to-use index This version of the book is paired with West Academic's Interactive Grammar and Usage Assessment, an online self-assessment tool. Students can work at their own pace in the cleanly designed digital format. The questions are broken into specific categories, so users can focus on particular topics where improvement might be needed. Right answers include an explanation of why an answer is correct. More importantly, the detailed explanations accompanying wrong answers provide a real opportunity for learning. The sophisticated, yet simple, user-interface provides students with many useful options: Tracking progress through questions covering a specific subtopic Viewing scores after completing a quiz Marking specific questions for further review Retaking a quiz any number of times

Author : Peter Butt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Law
ISBN : 0409341479

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Legal Usage by Peter Butt Pdf

Author : Tom Goldstein,Jethro K. Lieberman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780520963351

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The Lawyer's Guide to Writing Well by Tom Goldstein,Jethro K. Lieberman Pdf

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.