Legal Writing category: 57 books
Legal Interpretation
Perspectives from Other Disciplines and Private Texts
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
In Legal Interpretation, Kent Greenawalt focuses on the complex and multi-faceted topic of textual interpretation of the law. All law needs to be interpreted, and there are many ways to do it. But what sorts of questions must one seek to answer in interpreting law and what approach should one take...
Phraseology in Legal and Institutional Settings
A Corpus-based Interdisciplinary Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
This volume presents a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of major developments in the study of how phraseology is used in a wide range of different legal and institutional contexts. This recent interest has been mainly sparked by the development of corpus linguistics research, which has both demonstrated...
Point Made
How to Write Like the Nation's Top Advocates
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
With Point Made, legal writing expert, Ross Guberman, throws a life preserver to attorneys, who are under more pressure than ever to produce compelling prose. What is the strongest opening for a motion or brief? How to draft winning headings? How to tell a persuasive story when the record is dry and...
The Legal English Manual
Handbook for Professional Legal Language and Practical Skills
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
This practical handbook provides a comprehensive overview of professional legal language and practical skills. Prepared by native English-speaking lawyers, the book includes professional legal English terminology, practice-oriented examples and sample documents for use in your daily practice. Structured...
Reading The Legal Case
Cross-Currents between Law and the Humanities
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
This volume examines the nature, function, development and epistemological assumptions of the legal case in an interdisciplinary context. Using the question of ‘reading’ as a guiding principle, it opens up new ways of understanding case law and the doctrine of precedent by bringing the law into...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
This easy-to-use guidebook offers an overview of American law that should find a place on the desk of any journalism student or professional journalist. The Journalist’s Guide to American Law provides an overview of major legal principles and issues in practical terms for journalists covering any...
Books, Crooks, and Counselors
How to Write Accurately About Criminal Law and Courtroom Procedure
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Addressing the misunderstood and misrepresented aspects of the law in today’s writing, this reliable guidebook demonstrates how to use legal concepts, terminology, and procedure to create fiction that is true to life and crackling with real-world tension. Examples from actual cases are provided...
by Alison Plus
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2016
You must write a legal case brief, either for school or for internal use in a law firm or other legal setting. However, even though you have seen other case briefs, you are not sure how to brief a case. Maybe you have never written a brief like this before and do not know what it should look like....
by SHANE LEE
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2016
Note-taking in Law School is a Completely Different Ball-game from regular Note-taking...Just like how a Legal Education isn't your regular kind of Education, Note-taking in Law School isn't your regular kind of Note-taking.Ever feel like your fingers can't keep up with the verbiage spilling...
Law Dissertations
A Step-by-Step Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Law Dissertations: A Step-by-Step Guide provides you with all the guidance and information you need to complete and succeed in your LLB, LLM or law-related dissertation. Written in a simple, clear format and with plenty of tools to help you to put the theory into practice, Laura Lammasniemi will show...
Chinese Language in Law
Code Red
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
The book explores some of the intricacies, dilemmas, and idiosyncrasies of the Chinese language used in the legal context, analyzing linguistic matters in both monolingual Chinese context and cross-linguistically when Chinese and English are compared. It investigates the linguistic and cultural landscape...
by Stephen Woodfin, Caleb Pirtle III
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Are you a lawyer with a book in you? If so, this handbook is for you. It not only teaches fundamentals of fiction and non-fiction writing, but also shepherds new authors through the revolutionary world of digital publishing.
Co-authors Caleb Pirtle III and Stephen Woodfin of...
by Linda Ashar
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
Every year, thousands of medical, financial, and legal issues crop up due to the confusion surrounding the specific directions of an individual incapable of making the necessary decisions about their estate, body, or finances. The same problems can arise for small businesses and, for that reason,...
by Marco Wan
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
How do lawyers, judges and jurors read novels? And what is at stake when literature and law confront each other in the courtroom? Nineteenth-century England and France are remembered for their active legal prosecution of literature, and this book examines the ways in which five novels were interpreted...