Legal Writing in Plain English: A Text With Exercises

Yikes! There is no longer anywhere to hide, and there are no more excuses. This book shows you how to drop the jargon, the gobbledygook, the archaisms, and the fluff. So your writing is exposed. Now you must think--and write--clearly, and Legal Writing in Plain English will help. Lawyers and law students have needed this book for a long time. It's superb. (From back cover.)

Quit searching -- this is the best book on legal writing that you will find. It is outstanding.

I am an attorney in Texas, and I have attended two of Mr. Garner's legal-writing seminars. He is currently the leading authority on legal writing; he is also an engaging speaker. His approach is to eliminate legalese and to present a powerful and succinct message. This approach has a very practical foundation -- over the years, Mr. Garner has polled judges across the country to see which writing elements they prefer.

This volume distills Mr. Garner's findings into a compact, 227-page format. The book also contains model documents -- a research memorandum, a legal motion, an appellate brief, and a business contract -- which serve as excellent reference tools for the legal practitioner.

Put simply, if you don't subscribe to Mr. Garner's advice, you don't know how to write well. And this book is the best way yet to access to Mr. Garner's valuable insight. This book is an ESSENTIAL reference tool.

Quit searching -- this is the best book on legal writing that you will find. It is outstanding.

I am an attorney in Texas, and I have attended two of Mr. Garner's legal-writing seminars. He is currently the leading authority on legal writing; he is also an engaging speaker. His approach is to eliminate legalese and to present a powerful and succinct message. This approach has a very practical foundation -- over the years, Mr. Garner has polled judges across the country to see which writing elements they prefer.

This volume distills Mr. Garner's findings into a compact, 227-page format. The book also contains model documents -- a research memorandum, a legal motion, an appellate brief, and a business contract -- which serve as excellent reference tools for the legal practitioner.

Put simply, if you don't subscribe to Mr. Garner's advice, you don't know how to write well. And this book is the best way yet to access to Mr. Garner's valuable insight. This book is an ESSENTIAL reference tool.

Any involved in the legal professions will find Legal Writing In Plain English an important guide which blends a text with exercises. Proven techniques of legal writing are embedded in chapters which provide tips on creating outlines, expressing ideas, and common writing problems. A fine basic reference for any interested in legal writing.

The Author is teaching people how to apply simple words and sentences in order to improve communications. The days of placing confusing words to display ones' education are over.

The best writers use simple descriptive words, short sentences and in the active voice so all can understand what they are saying.

Bryan Garner is leading this reform movement by starting with the greatest abuses of the English language, Lawyers! Anyone reading a Supreme Court opinion of any era pretty much can see waht I am saying. They are full of alien words meant to show off an education rather than send a common, understandable reasoning for all people to follow.

The educated can find words that the common person can understand better than a common person having to run to a Lawyer to deciper what some Law Clerk and Judge wrote to sound important.

America is founded on the ideal that all persons are created equal. It is about time Judges, Lawyers and all other educated people everywhere write to the level of the people they say they represent for a change for a better society.

We all need to start with Bryan Garner's books and teachings so we can one day understand them for the betterment of all and the future of our nation. No one is asking anyone to dumb down, only write smarter for the reader.