Fine Points for Legal Writing

This abbreviated reference—only 50 pages—focuses on the most-common mechanical writing mistakes first-year law students make. Plus, it addresses three dozen other matters of form and style that new law students should master. Readable and efficient, it’ll help students avoid disappointing two key audiences: their legal-writing professor and their law-office supervisor. Topics are grammar, punctuation, words, typography, quoting, and the conventions of legal English. The numbered rules make it easy for legal-writing professors to refer students to clear guidance: "You need an apostrophe here. See Fine Points 10."