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Writing Shorter Legal Documents:Strategies for Faster and Better Editing
By Sandra J Oster
Writing Shorter Legal Documents:Strategies for Faster and Better Editing
By Sandra J Oster
This is a concise, practical handbook that explains how to quickly, efficiently reduce the length of your legal documents. This book provides the fast, easy editing tricks you’ll need.
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In a legal document, in accordance with federal, state, and local court rules, every letter and space is important. Writing Shorter Legal Documents is a concise, practical handbook that explains how to quickly, efficiently reduce the length of your legal documents. It's a collection of advice written to keep you within grammatical and court rules, for both length and construction, while preserving and even clarifying your argument. The author, a lawyer with a Ph.D in linguistics, has divided 35 precise strategies into five chapters:
- An Approach to Shorten Legal Documents
- Revising Terminology
- Revising Lists, Phrases, and Sentences
- Changing the Appearance of Text on the Page
- Cutting Content
Product Details
Authors
Publishers
ABA Book Publishing
ISBN
9781616329914
UPC Code
9781616329914
Page Count
178
Product Code
1620474
Trim Size
5 x 7 paperback
Publication Date
6/23/2011 12:00:00 AM
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