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- In The Party of the the First Part: The Curious World of Legalese, author Adam J. Freedman takes an hilarious look at legalese and the struggle between the Precision School of legal drafting, which holds that lawyers must use complex language to achieve the precision the law requires, and the Plain English camp, which maintains that clarity and accessibility need not be sacrificed to achieve precision.
As an added bonus, Amazon also hosts a blog for Mr. Freedman that covers the curious world [...]
- The Party of the First Part
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- Law Lit: From Atticus Finch to the Practice: A Collection of Great writings About the Law by Fordham Law school Professor Thane Rosenbaum is a comprehensive collection of writings on law that includes poetry, essays, and scripts. The selections span from ancient Greece to modern times. What's more, the selections are manageable so if you don't have time to commit to reading an entire book, but want to fine tune your Legal English you can read one of these writings in short time. [...]
- Law Lit: From Atticus Finch to the Practice: A Collection of Great writings About the Law
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- American Business Law: A Civil Law Perspective by Laura Carlson. Featured in the “Common Law Casebook”, this is an easy-to-read primer designed to provide lawyers from civil law jurisdictions with a basic understanding of the US legal system. [...]
- American Business Law: A Civil Law Perspective
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- How to Argue and Win Every Time by Gerry Spence. In How to Argue and Win Every Time, famed U.S. trial attorney, Gerry Spence teaches the art of making a winning argument. In clear, easily understood English, Spence describes argument as an art form, a technique which can be learnt to give you advantage over your opponent and to persuade them that your view is the right view. Includes a section on specific arguments for specific situations. [...]
- How to Argue and Win Every Time
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- Law in America by Lawrence M. Friedman is a short, easy to read primer on the history of American law which provides the reader with an overview of the legal system of the United States from an historical perspective. [...]
- Law in America
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- Summer Reading
A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr tells an easy-to-read and compelling true story of a young Boston trial lawyer, Jan Schlichtmann, and his work on a civil case involving two chemical plants and a cluster of childhood leukemia victims. The case took nine years and brought Schlichtmann and his firm to the brink of bankruptcy. It is a gripping tale that provides a detailed overview of the U.S. civil litigation system and it is filled with the legal terms used in civil litigation. See [...]
- A Civil Action (book)