Legal Writing

Step-by-step guide to preparing your dissertation, written by an author with a clear understanding of the needs of law dissertation students Takes a practical approach to planning and preparing your dissertation, including case studies, tips and worked...

Your client is innocent. Your wife is guilty.Who would you fight for?*'Quite simply, THE PLEA is one of the most purely entertaining books you'll read this year' John Connolly'A gripping thriller' Ian Rankin*When David Child, a major client of a corrupt...

In 1918 a young Carl Schmitt published a short satirical fiction entitled The Buribunks. He imagined a future society of beings who consistently wrote and disseminated their personal diaries. Schmitt would go on to become the infamous philosopher of the...

Focusing on John Milton's Paradise Lost , this book investigates the metaphorical identification of nature with a court of law - an old and persistent trope, haunted by ancient aporias, at the intersection of jurisprudence, philosophy and literature. In...

With Point Made, legal writing expert, Ross Guberman, throws a life preserver to attorneys, who are under more pressure than ever to produce compelling prose. What is the strongest opening for a motion or brief? How to draft winning headings? How to tell...

How to Write Law Essays and Exams provides law students with a practical and proven method of analysing and answering essay and exam questions. The book focuses on those questions that give students the most trouble, namely problem questions, but its...

In Point Taken, Ross Guberman delves into the work of the best judicial opinion-writers and offers a step-by-step method based on practical and provocative examples. Featuring numerous cases and opinions from 35 prolific judges - from Learned Hand to...

Legal Writing guides students comprehensively through this vital legal skill and addresses a range of assessment methods from exam questions to final essays and problem answers. It considers how to deconstruct essay and problem questions and how to...

Archbishop Wulfstan of York (d. 1023) was a powerful clergyman and the most influential political thinker of pre-Conquest England. An advocate for the rights and privileges of the Church, he authored the laws of King Aethelred and King Cnut in prose that...

This primer on legal reasoning is aimed at law students and upper-level undergraduates. But it is also an original exposition of basic legal concepts that scholars and lawyers will find stimulating. It covers such topics as rules, precedent, authority,...

The leading guide to clear writing-and clear thinking-in the legal profession for more than two decades, now newly updated. Admirably clear, concise, down-to-earth, and powerful-all too often, legal writing embodies none of these qualities. Its...

A critical skill for any aspiring transactional lawyer is the ability to draft documents that pertain to different types of deals and situations. This book, which is an update of Corporate Drafting: A Practical Approach, provides students with the...

Legal Writing guides students comprehensively through this vital legal skill and addresses a range of assessment methods from exam questions to final essays and problem answers. It considers how to deconstruct essay and problem questions and how to...

So you've arrived at university, you've read the course handbook and you're ready to learn the law. But is knowing the law enough to get you the very best marks? And what do your lecturers mean when they say you need to develop critical and analytical...

Law students rarely have experience answering problem questions before university, and lecturers concentrate on teaching content rather than the exam skills needed. This book bridges the gap on how to transpose knowledge and research into structured and...

Focusing on the argumentative, narrative, and descriptive style found in legal briefs and judicial opinions, The Elements of Legal Style (second edition) will be a thought provoking examination of effective argumentation in law.About the AuthorBryan A...

This guide is easy-to-read for all types of writers andincludes notes for legal professionals. The authors consulted multiple grammar-related sources in theirresearch, so readers would not have to. The book contains the following: * Rules ofgrammar and...

Each year the public, media, and government wait in anticipation for the Supreme Court to announce major decisions. These opinions have shaped legal policy in areas as important as healthcare, marriage, abortion, and immigration. It is not surprising...

Elegant Legal Writing helps attorneys elevate their writing from passable to polished. Drawing on ideas from cognitive science, stylistics, and litigation strategy, the book teaches practical techniques by example using fast-paced chapters. Readers will...

Elegant Legal Writing helps attorneys elevate their writing from passable to polished. Drawing on ideas from cognitive science, stylistics, and litigation strategy, the book teaches practical techniques by example using fast-paced chapters. Readers will...

In its ninth edition, Brief Writing and Oral Argument has been updated with a new section on legal writing and is revised throughout to integrate information on electronic legal research. Former Judge Edward D. Re and litigator Joseph Re lead the reader...

Legal Engish effectively communicates the language of law to students or to anyone learning the nuances of legal language in the United States. Professors Brostoff and Sinsheimer of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law guide the student through the...

This work is a practical legal analysis and writing handbook. Designed for first-year students, it is also a valuable refresher text for more advanced students, and for practitioners. This easy-to-read book features fundamental advice on how to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781543807776Author Coleen M BargerPage Count 636Imprint Aspen PublishersPublisher Aspen Publishers

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...

Since first appearing in 2002, Bryan Garner's The Redbook: A Manual on Legal Style has established itself as the go-to source for all questions of legal style (apart from citation form). The book isn't just one talented man's effort: Garner has two...

Bryan A. Garner, the editor in chief of Black's Law Dictionary, has long championed not only better contract drafting but also better legislative drafting, rule drafting, brief-writing, and legal writing generally. With Garner's Coursebook on Drafting...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307888716Author Steven D. StarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 202mm...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781539082118Author Active Law BooksFormat PaperbackImprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

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Ambiguity – an expression or utterance giving rise to at least two mutually exclusive interpretations – has been traditionally regarded as an ever-present, and therefore trivial, feature of EU law, alongside other forms of linguistic indeterminacy. At...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684675289Author George W. KuneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 575Imprint West Academic PressPublisher West AcademicWeight(grams) 124g