My second book
posted by Wayne Schiess at 11:50 AM
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Thursday, October 27, 2005
previous posts
- A legal-usage dictionary I like
- You must actually study legal drafting
- Promoting better legal writing at your law office
- Improve your legal writing
- My book: Writing for the Legal Audience
- You can keep improving
- Myths of persuasion
- Ending a sentence with a preposition
- Begin your motions well
- Verb-agreement question
Wayne's books
[Plain language] has a bad name among some lawyers. This is usually because they don't understand enough about it to judge it properly. --Michele M. Asprey, Plain Language for Lawyers 11 (2d ed., Federation Press 1996).
A related bonus of a plain language style is the potential for reducing mistakes. Traditional legal language tends to hide inconsistencies and ambiguities. Errors are harder to find in dense and convoluted prose. Removing legalese helps lay bare any oversights in the original. --Peter Butt & Richard Castle, Modern Legal Drafting: A Guide to Using Clearer Language 89 (Cambridge U. Press 2001).
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