The Supreme Guide to Writing - Barton, Jill
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Given all of the competing advice about legal writing, it's easy for lawyers to become confused about proper punctuation, pronouns, and word choice. In The Supreme Guide to Writing, law professor Jill Barton cuts through competing advice to detail definitive grammar rules based on the nation's unequivocal authority: the US Supreme Court. The book details a revolution in legal writing, with the justices progressing beyond the drab and technical for the deft and lyrical. With the first-ever analysis of 10,000 pages of Court opinions, the book pinpoints grammar and style rules that the justices follow--and describes the outdated rules they leave behind.…mehr

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Given all of the competing advice about legal writing, it's easy for lawyers to become confused about proper punctuation, pronouns, and word choice. In The Supreme Guide to Writing, law professor Jill Barton cuts through competing advice to detail definitive grammar rules based on the nation's unequivocal authority: the US Supreme Court. The book details a revolution in legal writing, with the justices progressing beyond the drab and technical for the deft and lyrical. With the first-ever analysis of 10,000 pages of Court opinions, the book pinpoints grammar and style rules that the justices follow--and describes the outdated rules they leave behind.
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Autorenporträt
Jill Barton has published two legal writing textbooks and hundreds of news articles as a journalist for the Associated Press, reaching more than a billion readers worldwide. She currently serves as a professor and the legal writing director at the University of Miami School of Law. She authored So Ordered: The Writer's Guide for Aspiring Judges, Judicial Clerks, and Interns. And she coauthored The Handbook for the New Legal Writer, a popular law school textbook now in its third edition, that aims to demystify the process of legal writing and inspire beginning and experienced legal writers. She has worked as an appellate judicial clerk, conducted workshops for regional and national law firms, and presented her work at conferences nationally, becoming a leading voice in the conversation on the best practices in writing.