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The Redbook: A Manual on Legal Style
The Redbook provides a comprehensive guide to the essential rules of legal writing. Unlike most style or grammar guides, it focuses on the special needs of legal writers, answering a wide spectrum of questions about grammar and style – both rules as well as exceptions. The Redbook also gives detailed, authoritative advice on punctuation, capitalization, spelling, footnotes, and citations, with illustrations in legal context. Designed for law students, law professors, practicing lawyers and judges, the work emphasizes the ways in which legal writing differs from other styles of technical writing. The "how-to" sections deal with editing and proofreading, numbers and symbols, and overall document design.
399 pages, Spiral-bound
First published January 1, 2002
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October 26, 2007
If you're a law student and don't have this, you're stupid. If you're writing for law review and don't have this, you're just wasting time. Everyone else, move on, there's nothing for you here.
December 16, 2019
This book's strong points are (1) Clarity and (2) Usefulness.
Often books in this genre are marginally useful. This book is the exception. It is an essential reference for both students, and practitioners.
Often books in this genre are marginally useful. This book is the exception. It is an essential reference for both students, and practitioners.
March 17, 2013
Nice reference book to have.
March 23, 2009
the spirals make it easy to keep your page.
July 8, 2014
Read "Elements of Legal Style" instead.
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July 29, 2014The mandatory book for a law library!
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