{"product_id":"great-legal-writing-max-barrett-9781787429499","title":"Great Legal Writing","description":"\u003cp\u003eLegal prose is often a more pedestrian venture than a novel or a poem. However, even the pedestrian can be done well. The views of the professional writers considered in this book identify how lawyers can write legal prose well, and sometimes even beautifully.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book provides key lessons on legal writing that can be gleaned from various leading authors of the past and brought to bear in crafting more polished legal texts. Among the great authors considered are Joseph Conrad, Guy de Maupassant, E.M. Forster, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, D.H. Lawrence, Robert Louis Stevenson and Virginia Woolf. Central themes identified are: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLegal writing should never be too difficult to understand;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGreat writers have much to teach the legal writer;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGood writing requires hard work;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProfessional jargon is generally best avoided; and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe truth is always pure, often simple, and generally best expressed in plain English.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book contains invaluable guidance to help all those involved in legal writing to hone their writing skills, while providing an engaging tour through the works of great authors from the past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll after-tax author royalties from this book will be donated to the Ukrainian relief efforts of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent movement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Max Barrett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1787429490\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781787429499\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Globe Law and Business Limited\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/27\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 293\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Max Barrett","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44071177683199,"sku":"9781787429499","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_33c859be-3ded-4b4b-9c2b-f9f63366f1cf.jpg?v=1685434595","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/great-legal-writing-max-barrett-9781787429499","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}