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The Winning Brief: 100 Tips for Persuasive Briefing in Trial and Appellate Courts
	Author: Bryan A. Garner Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Category: Book List Price: ~~$55.00~~ Buy New: $36.99 You Save: $18.01 (33%) New (22) Used (11) from $33.57 Rating: 11 reviews Sales Rank: 38664 Media: Hardcover Edition: 2 Pages: 528 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5 Dimensions (in): 10 x 7.7 x 1.4 ISBN: 019517075X Dewey Decimal Number: 808.06634 EAN: 9780195170757 ASIN: 019517075X Publication Date: May 13, 2004 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Shipping: International shipping available Condition: Brand new item. Over 4 million customers served. Order now. Selling online since 1995. Few left in stock - order soon. Code: O20081120202630D


Editorial Reviews: Product Description Good legal writing wins court cases. It its first edition, The Winning Brief proved that the key to writing well is understanding the judicial readership. Now, in a revised and updated version of this modern classic, Bryan A. Garner explains the art of effective writing in 100 concise, practical, and easy-to-use sections. Covering everything from the rules for planning and organizing a brief to openers that can capture a judge's attention from the first few words, these tips add up to the most compelling, orderly, and visually appealing brief that an advocate can present. In Garner's view, good writing is good thinking put to paper. "Never write a sentence that you couldn't easily speak," he warns-and demonstrates how to do just that. Beginning each tip with a set of quotable quotes from experts, he then gives masterly advice on building sound paragraphs, drafting crisp sentences, choosing the best words ("Strike pursuant to from your vocabulary."), quoting authority, citing sources, and designing a document that looks as impressive as it reads. Throughout, he shows how to edit for maximal impact, using vivid before-and-after examples that apply the basics of rhetoric to persuasive writing. Filled with examples of good and bad writing from actual briefs filed in courts of all types, The Winning Brief also covers the new appellate rules for preparing federal briefs. Constantly collecting material from his seminars and polling judges for their preferences, the second edition delivers the same solid guidelines with even more supporting evidence. Including for the first time sections on the ever-changing rules of acceptable legal writing, Garner's new edition keeps even the most seasoned lawyers on their toes and writing briefs that win cases. An invaluable resource for attorneys, law clerks, judges, paralegals, law students and their teachers, The Winning Brief has the qualities that make all of Garner's books so popular: authority, accessibility, and page after page of techniques that work. If you're writing to win a case, this book shouldn't merely be on your shelf--it should be open on your desk.