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Plain Language for Lawyers: A Practical Guide to Clear Communication 5th Edition

Plain Language for Lawyers: A Practical Guide to Clear Communication 5th Edition

Author: Michele M. Asprey
Publisher: The Federation Press
ISBN: 9781760024963

Previous Edition ISBN: 9781862877757
Published In: August 2024
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: Australia ? Disclaimer:
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Michèle Asprey’s Plain Language for Lawyers has established itself over the past 33 years and four editions as a comprehensive, authoritative, practical, entertaining and enormously useful book. It:

Explores the reasons why lawyers should be writing in plain language, including the legislation that requires it, the cases that call for it, the poor image of lawyers, and explains what clients (and judges) really want in legal writing
Discusses plain language as the international standard for good legal writing and surveys recent developments in plain language worldwide
Explains the main elements of plain language step-by-step, with supporting legal analysis and case law
Examines the principles of legal interpretation in the light of recent case law
Updates its plain language vocabulary
Covers writing for email, social media, websites and the internet, including the latest on defamation law and the implications of emerging artificial intelligence technology, and
Surveys document design for both print and the computer screen, including updated research on typography, reading speed and comprehension

Plain Language for Lawyers is an essential resource for lawyers who aspire to communicate well.

1. What is this book about?

2. What is plain language?

3. Why plain language?

4. Fundamentals

5. Structure

6. Words

7. Grammatical structures to avoid

8. Legal affectations and other nasty habits

9. Overused words and formulas

10. Little words: big problems

11. What about the principles of legal interpretation?

12. A plain language vocabulary