Recommended Books for Practicing Lawyers:
- Legal Drafting e-Handbook Series by Chris Jensen – exclusively available at legalwriting.eu are downloadable e-books and reference guides based on 500,000 examples from around the World with easy-to-use materials, real examples from global practice helping lawyers to see their writing objectively and solve their writing issues quickly and effectively.
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Legal Writing Coach by Chris Jensen is not a typical legal writing book. It’s a collection of easy-to-use materials, real examples from global practice helping lawyers to see their writing objectively and solve their writing issues quickly and effectively.
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Legal Writing in Plain English, Second Edition: A Text with Exercises by Bryan A. Garner remains the standard guide for producing the jargon-free language.
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Legal Writing: QuickStudy Laminated Reference Guide by Olympia Duhart, Richard W. Stevens contains handy legal reference to the most important points of the law possible and can serve as a daily refresher.
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Legal Research, Analysis, and Writing by Joanne B. Hames, Yvonne Ekern gives the essential knowledge and tools to research and analyze a legal problem and communicate the results in diverse forms of legal memoranda.
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The Pocket Guide to Legal Writing by William H. Putman is a reference book that allows the user to quickly obtain the answer to many commonly encountered writing questions.
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Writing to Win: The Legal Writer by Steven D. Stark focuses on the writing of lawyers, not judges, and includes dozens of examples of effective (and ineffective) real-life legal writing.
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Contract Drafting and Negotiation for Entrepreneurs and Business Professionals by Paul A. Swegle presents practical insights accumulated and shared with business colleagues over a 20-year period.
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The Elements of Legal Style by Bryan A. Garner explains the full range of mechanics, word choice, structure, and rhetoric, as well as provides abundant examples from the best legal writers.
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Legal Writing Nerd: Wayne Schiess on Legal Writing by Wayne Schiess collects the best of his monthly columns on legal writing in Austin Lawyer magazine.
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Your Client’s Story: Persuasive Legal Writing by Ruth Anne Robbins, Steve Johansen, Ken Chestek centers on the foundations of advocating for a client, with a focus on ways to persuade the reader to grant the relief each client seeks
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