Designed specifically for lawyers, judges, law students, law professors, paralegals, and legal secretaries, the Red Book highlights the different ways in which legal writing differs from other types of technical writing. The practical sections provide practical tips for preparing the legal documents they need to create on a daily basis, including: With two expanded indexes and a detailed new table of contents, this second edition of The Redbook makes it easy for users to find exactly what they`re looking for. This is an indispensable aid for anyone preparing legal documents. The working title of this book was “A Restatement of the Principles of Legal Writing”, and the text is modelled on explicit rules, followed by commentaries. Every punctuation rule, every important grammatical rule, and every important principle of legal writing can be found here. If the Blue Book deals with citation standards, the Red Book deals with everything in between: legal prose itself. The final chapters contain examples of well-written legal documents. The Redbook is a comprehensive guide to the essential rules of legal writing. Unlike other style guides, The Redbook focuses on the specific needs of legal writers. It answers the most important questions about grammar, word choice, formatting, punctuation, spelling, editing, and much more. Many regulations are illustrated by examples in legal contexts, including legal opinions and other legal documents. You`ll find a usage section with over 1,000 words that cause problems for legal writers, a list of over 200 artificial terms that take on new meanings in the field of law, and a guide to using over 800 words that take on certain prepositions.
There are also long lists of words and phrases to watch out for – such as pompous legalese that clients and judges hate, duplicates and triples that can add more ambiguity than clarity, deadwood words and phrases that add nothing at all, as well as stuffy sentences, verbose phrases, and fancy words (with suggestions for simple substitutes). The Redbook is the most reliable, comprehensive and easy-to-use legal style manual. Written by Bryan A. Garner, with contributions from the six lawyers at LawProse Inc., The Redbook covers everything simple citation manuals can`t and can`t do: punctuation, capitalization, grammar, prose style, and clarity in general. The Redbook is an extremely useful reference work. Written in the style of a reformulation, the rules of the black letter are followed by exhaustive comments and illustrations. The Redbook is the most reliable, comprehensive and easy-to-use legal style manual. Written by Bryan A.
Garner, with contributions from six lawyers at LawProse Inc., The Redbook cove. His work has played a central role in our understanding of modern judgment, advocacy, grammar, the use of English, legal lexicography, and the common law system of jurisprudence. His books are frequently cited by U.S. courts at all levels, including the U.S. Supreme Court. Bryan A. Garner (born 17. Sánchez (born 1958) is an American jurist, grammarian and lexicographer.
He also writes about case law (and sometimes golf). He is the author of more than 25 books, the most famous of which are Garner`s Modern English Usage (4th edition 2016) and Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts (2012 – co-authored with Justice Antonin Scalia), as well as four complete editions of Black`s Law Dictionary. He is a Distinguished Research Professor of Law at Southern Methodist University. He also occasionally teaches at the University of Texas School of Law, Texas A&M Law School, and Texas Tech Law School. The Rules of Golf in Plain English, 3rd edition, 2012 A New Miscellany-at-Law: Yet Another Diversion for Lawyers and Others His friendship with writer David Foster Wallace is recorded in Quack This Way: David Foster Wallace and Bryan A. Garner Talk Language and Writing (2013). His friendship and writing partnership with Justice Antonin Scalia is described in the memoir Nino and Me: My Unusual Friendship with Justice Antonin Scalia (2018). In 2009, he was named Legal and Reference Book Author of the Decade at a Burton Awards ceremony at the Library of Congress. He has received numerous other awards, including the Benjamin Franklin Book Award, the Scribes Book Award, the Bernie Siegan Award, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Center for Plain Language.