The Lawyer's Guide to Writing Well

This best-selling, eminently practical volume demystifies legal writing, outlines the causes and consequences of bad writing, and prescribes straightforward, easy-to-apply remedies that will make your writing readable. Usage notes address lawyers' most common errors, and editing exercises (with a suggested revision key that includes detailed explanations) allow you to test your skills, making this an invaluable tool for practicing lawyers as well as a sensible grounding for law students. This much-revised third edition contains examples of lawyers’ original prose and provides a robust set of techniques that you can use to shorten, sharpen, and shape the words that constitute your livelihood.

New chapters in this edition cover such important topics as:

- Getting to the point
- Communicating digitally
- Writing persuasively
- Twenty-five common mistakes

Tom Goldstein is Professor of Journalism and Director of the Media Studies Program at the University of California, Berkeley.

Jethro K. Lieberman is Martin Professor of Law Emeritus at New York Law School and author or editor of more than twenty-five books, includingThe Litigious Society.