Clarity for Lawyers
Effective Legal Writing
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2006
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2nd Revised edition
The Law Society (Verlag)
978-1-85328-985-9 (ISBN)
The Law Society (Verlag)
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The traditional style of legal drafting has been discredited, and clear, modern English is increasingly required by law and by clients. This work explains how lawyers can increase their efficiency, profits, and client approval while making their documents more reliable. It also includes sections on ambiguity, vagueness, miscuing, and editing.
The traditional style of legal drafting has been widely discredited over the last 40 years, and clear, modern English is now increasingly required by law and by clients. But few lawyers are able to produce it. Mark Adler debunks the myth that legalese is precise and explains, with many before-and-after examples, how lawyers can increase their efficiency, profits, and client approval while making their documents more reliable. This second edition has been thoroughly revised, updated and expanded to include new sections on ambiguity, vagueness, miscuing, and editing, as well as advice about communication via emails and websites, persuasive writing, and the rules of interpretation. The book also contains a helpful range of precedents written in plain English, including a simple will, memorandum of association and divorce petition.
The traditional style of legal drafting has been widely discredited over the last 40 years, and clear, modern English is now increasingly required by law and by clients. But few lawyers are able to produce it. Mark Adler debunks the myth that legalese is precise and explains, with many before-and-after examples, how lawyers can increase their efficiency, profits, and client approval while making their documents more reliable. This second edition has been thoroughly revised, updated and expanded to include new sections on ambiguity, vagueness, miscuing, and editing, as well as advice about communication via emails and websites, persuasive writing, and the rules of interpretation. The book also contains a helpful range of precedents written in plain English, including a simple will, memorandum of association and divorce petition.
Mark Adler is a solicitor in general practice but also teaches plain legal writing in the UK and overseas and acts as a plain drafting consultant to lawyers and others. For many years he was chairman of Clarity, the lawyers' movement for plain legal language, and he edited its journal from 1987 to 2000.
A: What's wrong with legal writing?; B: Alternative ways to communicate; C: How to make legal writing more effective; D: The common law rules of interpretation; E: A plain language workshop.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 8.12.2006 |
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| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft |
| Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-85328-985-X / 185328985X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-85328-985-9 / 9781853289859 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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