Legal Research and Writing:  Ted Tjaden

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Legal Writing

Readers should consult Chapter 12 of my book for more detailed commentary on legal writing.

 

There is not very much freely available online material on legal writing. However, I do recommend the following sites:

• Adams, Ken: AdamsConsulting

• Best, Catherine: "Writing and Analysis" at Best Guide to Canadian Legal Research

• British Columbia Law Institute: Report on Gender-free Legal Writing

• Dave, Sandeep: Plain Language in Law (8 November 2002, LLRX.com). Online: LLRX.com.

• Laskin, John: "Forget the Wind Up and Make the Pitch: Some Suggestions for Writing More Persuasive Factums"

• Legal Writing Prof Blog

Aside from that, some of my favourite print materials on legal writing are listed below (links below are to the publisher's or Amazon's sites for each title):

 

Canadian

• Cromwell, Thomas. Effective Written Advocacy. Aurora, ON: Canada Law Book, 2008.

• Dick, Robert C. Legal Drafting in Plain Language. 3d ed. Toronto, ON: Carswell, 1995.

• Elderkin, Cynthia L. & Julia S. Shin Doi. Behind and Beyond Boilerplate: Drafting Commercial Agreements. 2d ed. Toronto, ON: Carswell, 2006.

• Fitzgerald, Maureen F. Legal Problem Solving: Reasoning, Research and Writing. 4th ed. Toronto: LexisNexis Canada, 2008.

• Mowat, Christine. A Plain Language Handbook for Legal Writers. Toronto, ON: Carswell, 1999.

American

• Adams, Ken. A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting. 2d ed. Chicago, IL: American Bar Association, 2008.

• Garner, Bryan A. Elements of Legal Style. 2d ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

• Garner, Bryan A. The Redbook: A Manual on Legal Style. 2d ed. St. Paul, MN: West Group, 2006.

• Goldstein, Tom & Jethro K. Lieberman. The Lawyer’s Guide to Writing Well. 2d ed. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003.

• Stark, Tina. Drafting Contracts: How and Why Lawyers Do What They Do. New York: Aspen Publishers, 2007.

• Volokh, Eugene. Academic Legal Writing: Law Review Articles, Student Notes, and Seminar Papers. 3d ed. New York: Foundation Press, 2007.

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Legal Research and Writing:
Third Edition

by Ted Tjaden

Softcover 422 pgs.
Published: June 2010
ISBN-13: 9781552211762

Purchase here

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