A new book on legal writing
Check out this new book on legal writing:
posted by Wayne Schiess at 12:17 PM
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Thursday, August 16, 2007
previous posts
- Preaching against passive voice--passively
- Sounding scholarly--or not
- Sentence problems? Help me out.
- Austin Lawyer magazine: Changes in legal writing
- Academic writing by legal-writing teachers
- Prepositions, ending with--understanding Churchill...
- Prepositions--ending with, MORE
- New book: The Modern Rules of Style
- URL for --not this blog
- Scholarly writing: Posner's opinion on its style
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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