Legal Research

"What I Wish I Had Known about Legal Writing--Part 4"

This post was written by Wayne Schiess: "I wish I had known about the best sources on good legal writing.

I did not own a book on legal writing until I quit practicing law and began teaching legal writing. How could that be? If I had studied journalism, I would've known about and acquired books on writing style. Likewise if I had studied English composition. But I finished law school and entered a writing profession without a single source on legal writing in my library. Sure, I read The Elements of Style by Strunk and White. I read On Writing Well by William Zinsser. But I read no books on legal writing.

Given what was available when I graduated from law school in 1989, I wish I'd had these sources...

Wayne Schiess, author of Preparing Legal Documents Nonlawyers Can Read and Understand"

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Source: Legalwriting.net Blog, 12 March 2010. Copyright 2008. Reproduced with permission of the author

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on March 23, 2010 (boomark / email).