Download or read book Drafting Complex Legal Documents with Microsoft Word written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Formatting Legal Documents with Microsoft Word 2016 written by Jan Berinstein and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides instructions - including many brand-new tutorials - for formatting pleadings, contracts, and other complex documents with Word 2016. The author, an experienced and highly regarded software trainer with an extensive legal word processing background, takes an in-depth look at Word's "logic," the key to successful formatting and troubleshooting. To help make Word more user-friendly, she explains how to change the default font and paragraph settings, customize the Ribbon and the Quick Access Toolbar, and use time-saving features like keyboard shortcuts, field codes, and Quick Parts. She demystifies everyday features such as line spacing, before and after spacing, headers and footers, page numbering, and automatic paragraph numbering. In addition, she focuses on legal-specific tasks: aligning text with pleading line numbers; creating, generating, and troubleshooting a Table of Contents and a Table of Authorities; using Track Changes; and comparing documents (redlining). Finally, she touches on the issues of metadata removal, document corruption, and file conversions. The book is filled with pragmatic tips, shortcuts, troubleshooting advice, and workarounds.
Download or read book Document Drafting Handbook written by Gladys Q. Ramey and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Legal Drafting by Design written by Richard K. Neumann Jr. and published by Aspen Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for upper-level survey legal drafting courses, this groundbreaking text explains drafting using a common vocabulary that applies to any legal document based on a fundamental rule structure, including statutes and other forms of public drafting as well as contracts and other forms of private drafting. This unified drafting approach gives students a common denominator approach to drafting all kinds of legal documents. In addition, students can use the techniques they’ve learned to deconstruct, interpret, and revise any kind of legal document composed of rules. This common-sense approach of teaching/learning a single vocabulary and set of skills to use in drafting any rules-based legal document is an innovative model for U.S. legal drafting courses, though it has been used in other countries for decades. Key Features: A unified approach that teaches students the general skills of drafting rules of law—duties, discretionary authority, and declarations, including their conditions in legal tests. Practice applying those skills to drafting a range of documents, including contracts, statutes, regulations, and other. Coverage of how courts interpret the rules and how to draft anticipating what the courts will do. An understanding of how law governs human behavior through the rules that students learn to draft. A wide range of classroom exercises on the detail of drafting. Additional drafting assignments, for use in and out of class, that help students learn how to use the rules and to accomplish clients’ goals.
Download or read book Microsoft Word for Legal Practitioners written by Monica Korf and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hereof Thereof and Everywhereof written by Howard Darmstadter and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2008 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This update of Howard Darmstadter's witty, accessible guide to legal drafting reminds practitioners how best to choose their words, to compose clear and succinct sentences, to lay out their documents, and to decide which documents best serve a given scenario. This book may be unconventional, but it is a vital element of any lawyer's library."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Modern Legal Drafting written by Peter Butt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive guide to drafting legal documents in plain English with a dual practical and academic approach.
Download or read book Drafting Legal Documents written by Barbara Child and published by West Academic Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition is designed to accommodate either a focus on individual documents one at a time or a focus on transferable skills. Revised and expanded chapters on the skills of using clients and documents as resources; drafting with flexible language; avoiding inadvertent ambiguity; defining terms and naming concepts; and making stylistic choices.
Download or read book Preparing Legal Documents Nonlawyers Can Read and Understand written by Wayne Schiess and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text teaches lawyers how to adjust their writing to accommodate the nonlegal audience. Improve legal writing for the lay audience as well as find examples of poor legal writing, common errors, why they should be fixed, and how to fix them. This book is ideal for practicing lawyers or law students who want their material to be understood and not ignored.
Download or read book Legal Drafting written by Susan L. Brody and published by Aspen Publishers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dynamic paperback text presents a highly effective, classroom-tested process for legal drafting. Prepared with this practical strategy, your students will move beyond merely filling in the blanks to create the customized documents clients need, and adapt preexisting forms to new uses. Divided into two parts, The text first introduces the process approach to legal drafting before applying that approach to particular types of documents. This two-part organization easily adapts to your specific course needs and gives you great flexibility in choosing and combining chapters. The book's seven chapters cover an introduction to legal drafting, The process of legal drafting, careful writing, and drafting estate planning, contracts, pleadings, and legislation. In addition, numerous examples, illustrations, and exercises in every chapter reinforce the skills your students need to draft provisions from scratch, edit existing provisions, and create entirely new documents. Each substantive chapter concludes with a document, annotated with editorial comments that illustrates the drafting process.
Download or read book Legal Drafting in a Nutshell written by Thomas R. Haggard and published by West Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haggard and Kuney's Legal Drafting in a Nutshell provides guidance on producing transactional documents, contracts, instruments, legislation, and regulations that solve existing problems and prevent future problems. It offers both a large-scale overview of the drafting process and a small-scale discussion of the mechanics of legal documents at the sentence, word, and punctuation level.
Download or read book Formatting Legal Documents with Microsoft Word 2010 written by Jan Berinstein and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Basic Legal Drafting written by Anne Rutledge and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BASIC LEGAL DRAFTING offers down-to-earth instruction on how to draft well-organized and clearly articulated legal documents. A culmination of twenty-five years of teaching in the highly regarded Legal Drafting Program at the University of Florida College of Law, the book is designed to be used as a resource for law students and practicing attorneys, as well as a textbook for drafting classes. The text is particularly strong in its discussions of how to organize a document, often the most difficult task facing a drafter and typically under-addressed in other drafting manuals. Equally useful are the very concrete recommendations on how to articulate the language of a document in order to achieve clarity and precision. The text helpfully distinguishes traditional drafting principles from common conventions and stylistic preferences. The litigation chapter addresses complaints, answers and motions. Useful examples range from a simple negligence complaint to a complex statutory-based multi-count complaint and appropriate responses. The contracts chapter includes an extensive discussion, with examples, on how to create for any contract a logical, coherent framework that underlines the drafter's (and presumably the client's) intentions. The chapter addresses in detail the articulation of particular provisions, including definitions, termination and exculpatory provisions. Its comprehensive discussion of how to recognize and avoid various types of ambiguity will prove useful beyond the contract drafting context. The legislation chapter identifies common legislative protocols and applies, within those protocols, many of the organization and articulation principles set out in the contracts chapter. While the text uses litigation documents, contracts and legislation as the bases for its discussions, Basic Legal Drafting offers practical, realistic advice and instructions that will be useful to the drafter of any type of legal document.
Download or read book Legal Drafting in a Nutshell written by Thomas R. Haggard and published by West Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haggard's Legal Drafting in a Nutshell provides guidelines for producing documents that serve the client's needs, solve existing problems, and prevent future problems. Authoritative coverage overviews the general drafting process and offers tips on getting started. Provides guidelines for drafting within the law and choosing the proper concept. Also identifies ambiguities, definitions, and drafting ethics.
Download or read book Legal Drafting in Plain Language written by Robert C. Dick and published by Scarborough, Ont. : Carswell. This book was released on 1995 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third edition of Robert Dick's informative guide to drafting. In this edition he emphasises that plain language in the use of legal documents is here to stay.
Download or read book Legal Drafting with Microsoft Word 2007 2010 written by Barron Henley and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modern Legal Drafting written by Peter Butt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-23 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second edition of this highly regarded text, the authors show how and why traditional legal language has developed the peculiar characteristics that make legal documents inaccessible to the end users. Incorporating recent research and case law, the book provides a critical examination of case law and the rules of interpretation. Detailed case studies illustrate how obtuse or outdated words, phrases and concepts can be rewritten, reworked or removed altogether. Particularly useful is the step-by-step guide to drafting in the modern style, using examples from four types of common legal documents: leases, company constitutions, wills and conveyances. Readers will gain an appreciation of the historical influences on drafting practice and the use of legal terminology. They will learn about the current moves to reform legal language, and receive clear instruction on how to make their writing clearer and their legal documents more useful.
