Teaching Drafting conference
I will attend and participate on a panel at this conference:
Teaching Drafting and Transactional Skills: The Basics and Beyond
The conference is sponsored by Emory Law School.
Legalwriting.net
Wayne Schiess's legal-writing blog. Home is here: Legalwriting.net
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Teaching Drafting and Transactional Skills: The Basics and Beyond
The conference is sponsored by Emory Law School.
previous posts
- Jury Instructions conference
- Professor Joseph Williams has died
- Text beneath point headings
- Summaries in legal writing, part 1
- Plain-English advocate picks on lawyers. Ouch.
- Choosing topics for sentences
- Writing for nonlawyers
- Mind your prepositions
- All-capitals not necessarily conspicuous
- Doubling spacing?
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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