Description
For many years, Terri LeClercq's "Legal Writing" column in the Texas Bar Journal helped polish the prose of lawyers and law students, judges and clerks, paralegals, writing instructors, and legal secretaries. This book collects all the advice she has given in her columns into one authoritative guide for expert legal writing. LeClercq covers everything a legal writer needs to know, from the mechanics of grammar and punctuation to the finer points of style, organization, and clarity of meaning. With her practical, readable, and often humorous advice, those who prepare legal documents can rid their prose of mind-numbing "legalese" and write with the clarity and precision that characterize the very best legal writing.
"LeClercq can be read generally for an education or consulted specifically for an answer. In either case, her short and readable articles are practical aids to maintaining your intelligibility and, frankly, your credibility." -- Lynn N. Hughes, United States District Judge "Drop what you're doing and get a copy of Terri LeClercq's book. Read it, absorb it, and use it daily. Your writing and your thinking will improve. Ms. LeClercq will rid you of the dense, hidebound jargon you were taught in law school, and introduce you to the wonderful world of clarity and brevity." -- Mark Weiss, Senior Administrative Law Judge
About the Author
Dr. Terri LeClercq taught advanced legal writing at the University of Texas School of Law for twenty-two years.
Book Information
ISBN 9780292746886
Author Terri LeClercq
Format Paperback
Page Count 212
Imprint University of Texas Press
Publisher University of Texas Press
Weight(grams) 454g
