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posted by Wayne Schiess at 9:19 AM
Legalwriting.net
Wayne Schiess's legal-writing blog. Home is here: Legalwriting.net
Wednesday, December 07, 2005
previous posts
- Best book on English usage
- My book: Writing for the Legal Audience
- Squinting modifiers
- A word-and-sentence guide to legal drafting
- I recommend The Redbook
- My second book
- A legal-usage dictionary I like
- You must actually study legal drafting
- Promoting better legal writing at your law office
- Improve your legal writing
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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