Writing Shorter Legal Documents : Strategies for Faster and Better Editing

In a legal document, in accordance with federal, state, and local court rules, every letter and space is important. Writing Shorter Legal Documents is a concise, practical handbook that explains how to quickly, efficiently reduce the length of your legal documents. It's a collection of advice written to keep you within grammatical and court rules, for both length and construction, while preserving and even clarifying your argument. The author, a lawyer with a Ph.D in linguistics, has divided 35 precise strategies into five chapters: An Approach to Shorten Legal DocumentsRevising TerminologyRevising Lists, Phrases, and SentencesChanging the Appearance of Text on the PageCutting ContentWhen you're on a deadline with the court and are over the maximum word count in your document, this book provides the fast, easy editing tricks you'll need. When you're on a deadline with the court and are over the maximum word count in your document, this book provides the fast, easy editing tricks you'll need. Its a concise, practical handbook that explains how to quickly reduce the length of your legal documents. It's a collection of advice written to keep you within grammatical and court rules, for both length and construction, while preserving and even clarifying your argument An approach to shorten legal documents Revising terminology Revising lists, phrases, and sentences Changing the appearance of text on the page Cutting content.