ebook Clear and Precise Writing Skills for Today's Lawyers

Many students begin a law course believing real lawyers write in legalese. Clear and Precise Writing Skills for Today's Lawyer encourages law students and lawyers to use plain English techniques in the language, structure, content, style, and presentation of their writing. This edition has been updated to reflect changes since the Third Edition was published in 2010: - Chapter 5 on document preparation will be completely re-written; - There will be coverage of the ramifications of ineffective and poor writing, specifically with reference to the precise legal practitioners' obligations in the various conduct rules, including the new uniform professional legislation; - New chapter on the type of writing that is done for internal use, rather than focussing on writing for external parties such as the client and the courts.