Writing Shorter Legal Documents: Strategies for Faster and Better Editing (eBook)
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Writing Shorter Legal Documents: Strategies for Faster and Better Editing (eBook)

Writing Shorter Legal Documents: Strategies for Faster and Better Editing (eBook)
Product Code: 1620474EBK
Author: Sandra J. Oster
Publication Date: July 2011
ISBN: 978-1-61438-226-3
Page Count: 178
Sponsoring Entities: ABA Book Publishing
Topics: Business Law, Legal Research & Writing, Public Contract Law
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About the eBook Version of Writing Shorter Legal Documents

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
When you're on a deadline with the court and are over the maximum word count in your document, this book provides the fast, easy editing tricks you'll need.