Plain English for Lawyers *(ebook)
Plain English for Lawyers has been a favorite of law students, legal writing teachers, lawyers, and judges for almost 40 years. The sixth edition, now co-authored by Amy Sloan, updates this classic text, including new chapter exercises, while preserving all the approaches that make it such a standard in the field. It remains (in size only!) a little book, small enough and palatable enough not to intimidate over-loaded law students. In January 2005, the Legal Writing Institute gave Wydick its Golden Pen Award for having written Plain English for Lawyers. The Legal Writing Institute is a non-profit organization that provides a forum for discussion and scholarship about legal writing, analysis, and research. The Institute has over 1,300 members representing all of the ABA-accredited law schools in the United States. Its membership also includes law teachers from other nations, English teachers, and practicing lawyers. The LWI award states: Plain English for Lawyers ... has become a classic. Perhaps no single work has done more to improve the writing of lawyers and law students and to promote the modern trend toward a clear, plain style of legal writing. Read more
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Why Must Read Plain English for Lawyers?
Not worth it. Save yourself $20! Here's the book: Write short, concise sentences in the active voice using plain language. There is about $1 worth of useful info in a book costing $20, so if you see this at a yard sale or used bookshop for $0.50, pick up a copy. Otherwise, skip it. The book is just an updated version of an article written for a law review forty years ago, in 1978. Don't get me wrong, it does contain useful information, but unless you're illiterate or ESL, this is Writing 101. I feel cheated.
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