Reading
Recommended reading to help lawyers and law students improve their Legal English.The Party of the First Part
published on 09.01.2010
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 [...]
read moreLaw Lit: From Atticus Finch to the Practice: A Collection of Great writings About the Law
published on 02.05.2008
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 [...]
read moreAmerican Business Law: A Civil Law Perspective
published on 23.02.2007
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.
read moreHow to Argue and Win Every Time
published on 22.11.2006
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 [...]
read moreLaw in America
published on 14.10.2006
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.
read moreA Civil Action (The book)
published on 21.06.2006
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 [...]
read moreA 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 [...]
