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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.
Read Online The Lawyer Guide to Writing Well Second Edition Tom Goldstein Jethro K Lieberman Books
"sharpen your pencil I would recommend this to other who would be interested. I added it to my library for proper use"
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The Lawyer Guide to Writing Well Second Edition Tom Goldstein Jethro K Lieberman Books Reviews :
The Lawyer Guide to Writing Well Second Edition Tom Goldstein Jethro K Lieberman Books Reviews
- This is an excellent work for lawyers wishing to improve the clarity, continuity, and power of their prose. It is easy to understand, and full of examples. This work illustrates what a judge-professor once taught me "There is no such thing as good legal writing. There is only good writing."
- sharpen your pencil I would recommend this to other who would be interested. I added it to my library for proper use
- The explanations and examples are excellent. Lawyers who would like to perfect their writing need this kind of expert help.
- How good is this book? Well, I've put it on my shelf right between Bryan Garner's masterwork The Winning Brief and Steven Stark's famous and succinct Writing To Win. Like both of those books, Professors Goldstein and Liberman present a systemic approach to legal writing. They are brave enough to offer real-life legal writing duds as well as writing gems from practicing lawyers as well as judges. Only professors could do that. If a lawyer tried it, it would be professional harikari.
Their advice is more general than Garner's and more detailed than Stark's. In that vein, the book is a good middle-of-the-road guide for lawyers. Frankly, I was skeptical of a book written for lawyers by two professors. I thought they'd be throwing stones from their ivory towers at the litigators in the trenches. They do, but not so much we can't handle it. More importantly, their advice is mostly on the mark.
That doesn't mean they don't stray a bit from time to time. They spend the first agonizing 34 pages telling us over and over again how legal writing has been atrocious for centuries apparently never to change. So why should we bother with this book? And at one point they proclaim that lawyers too often are careless about punctuation. Poppycock, I say. In my experience, many lawyers obsess over typos and punctuation and completely forget to breathe any life into their arguments.
But those are minor flaws in a very good writing guide. If you know a lawyer, chances are this would make a great gift. Too bad I already have it... - Are lawyers professional writers? Could a law office benefit by adopting some methods of a book publisher or newspaper office?
Yes and yes, according to the authors of this excellent book.
The writing advice is superb, from commas to sentence length and from transitions to editing methods. But the best parts of the book are the suggestions for managing a law office so that it will produce consistent, top-notch written work. The authors recommend using proofreaders, training junior lawyers in editing, and employing someone in the position of copy editor. All great advice that would improve legal writing. - Even though this book is 17 years old, it remains in the first rank. More extensive than Steven Stark's, more engaging than Garner's, Goldstein and Lieberman's book is my first choice for any lawyer seeking to become a competent writer. Part III, the longest part of the book is entitled, "Making Your Prose Serviceable," the part one must read. But particularly worthy is the Part following, "Making Your Prose Memorable." Even though few of us will ever attain that goal, it's worth trying. I can't think of another book in the genre suggesting such a lofty purpose. I appreciate having some guidance.
- A great book on good writing for lawyers and non-lawyers alike. Everybody should read this readable book, not just lawyers. You'll especially love the authors' ideal vision of a world that's jargon-free.
- i first purchased this "intriguing" book when living in chicago where i worked as "foreign patent specialist" and "senior tech writer/editor". When we moved to Las Vegas, after my retirement, I panicked when I realized that I've lost this book. Just open any page and savor the words in this book. Bravo to the authors. I wish I could shake their hands for a well-written and intriguing book.
