Download or read book The Lawyer s English Language Coursebook written by Catherine Mason and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contract Law written by John Cartwright and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-02 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives an introduction to the English law of contract. The third edition has been fully updated to cover recent developments in case law and recent statutes such as the Consumer Rights Act 2015. However, this new edition retains the primary focus of the earlier editions: it is designed to introduce the lawyer trained in a civil law jurisdiction to the method of reasoning in the common law, and in particular to the English law of contract. It is written for the lawyer - whether student or practitioner - from another jurisdiction who already has an understanding of a (different) law of contract, but who wishes to discover the way in which an English lawyer views a contract. However, it is also useful for the English law student: setting English contract law generally in the context of other European and international approaches, the book forms an introductory text, not only demonstrating how English contract law works but also giving a glimpse of different ways of thinking about some of the fundamental rules of contract law from a civil law perspective. After a general introduction to the common law system - how a common lawyer reasons and finds the law - the book explains the principles of the law of contract in English law covering all the aspects of a contract from its formation to the remedies available for breach, whilst directing attention in particular to those areas where the approach of English law is in marked contrast to that taken in many civil law systems.
Download or read book The Street Lawyer written by John Grisham and published by Random House. This book was released on 1998 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael was in a hurry. He was scrambling up the ladder at Drake & Sweeney, a giant D. C. firm with 800 lawyers. The money was good and getting better; a partnership was three years away. He was a rising star, with no time to waste, no time to stop, n
Download or read book Practical Legal English written by CRAIG. HOFFMAN and published by West Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description Coming Soon!
Download or read book Plain English for Lawyers written by Richard C. Wydick and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Jurist featured Plain English for Lawyers in its August 2021 list of "Three Books to Read During Law School," saying, "This one speaks for itself. The book is a quick punch of information: it provides helpful tips to improve your legal writing while familiarizing you with many of the terms of art you are likely to see down the road as a legal professional." Wydick's Plain English for Lawyers--now in its fifth edition--has been a favorite of law students, legal writing teachers, lawyers, and judges for almost 40 years. In January 2005, the Legal Writing Institute gave Wydick its Golden Pen Award for having written Plain English for Lawyers. The Legal Writing Institute is a non-profit organization that provides a forum for discussion and scholarship about legal writing, analysis, and research. The Institute has over 1,300 members representing all of the ABA-accredited law schools in the United States. Its membership also includes law teachers from other nations, English teachers, and practicing lawyers. The LWI award states: "Plain English for Lawyers ... has become a classic. Perhaps no single work has done more to improve the writing of lawyers and law students and to promote the modern trend toward a clear, plain style of legal writing." The National Jurist recently featured Plain English for Lawyers on its list of "Three Books to Read During Law School," saying, "This one speaks for itself. The book is a quick punch of information: it provides helpful tips to improve your legal writing while familiarizing you with many of the terms of art you are likely to see down the road as a legal professional." How does the fifth edition of Plain English for Lawyers differ from its predecessors? It remains (in size only!) a little book, small enough and palatable enough not to intimidate over-loaded law students. "Most of the text remains the same," Wydick says, "but in the past seven years I've learned some new things about writing in English, and I want to share that with the readers." In addition, the exercises at the end of the chapters are different (a welcome change for long-time teachers who are tired of the old ones). Finally, the teacher's manual includes additional exercises that teachers can give to students who want or need extra practice.
Download or read book The Lawyer s Reference Manual of Law Books and Citations written by Charles Carroll Soule and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-24 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Download or read book Legal Writing in Plain English written by Bryan A. Garner and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-08-26 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This easy-to-follow guide is useful both as a general course of instruction and as a targeted aid in solving particular legal writing problems.” —Harvard Law Review Clear, concise, down-to-earth, and powerful—all too often, legal writing embodies none of these qualities. Its reputation for obscurity and needless legalese is widespread. For more than twenty years, Bryan A. Garner’s Legal Writing in Plain English has helped address this problem by providing lawyers, judges, paralegals, law students, and legal scholars with sound advice and practical tools for improving their written work. The leading guide to clear writing in the field, this indispensable volume encourages legal writers to challenge conventions and offers valuable insights into the writing process that will appeal to other professionals: how to organize ideas, create and refine prose, and improve editing skills. Accessible and witty, Legal Writing in Plain English draws on real-life writing samples that Garner has gathered through decades of teaching. Trenchant advice covers all types of legal materials, from analytical and persuasive writing to legal drafting, and the book’s principles are reinforced by sets of basic, intermediate, and advanced exercises in each section. In this new edition, Garner preserves the successful structure of the original while adjusting the content to make it even more classroom-friendly. He includes case examples from the past decade and addresses the widespread use of legal documents in electronic formats. His book remains the standard guide for producing the jargon-free language that clients demand and courts reward. “Those who are willing to approach the book systematically and to complete the exercises will see dramatic improvements in their writing.” —Law Library Journal
Download or read book The English Lawyer written by John Doddridge and published by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advice for Aspiring Lawyers in Seventeeth-Century England In this handbook Doderidge, one of the most distinguished legal figures of his age, advises aspiring lawyers. Among other points, such as suggested readings and advice concerning personal demeanor, he urges the student to acquire a solid liberal-arts education that emphasizes subjects with practical application, such as logic and etymology. Regarding the specifics of legal education, he discusses the best methods of study and information on the sources and principles of English law. Reprint of the first edition. As distinguished a jurist as Coke and Bacon, Sir John Doderidge [1555-1628] was a counselor of the King's Bench, a Serjeant for Prince Henry, solicitor-general and a member of Parliament. He was the author of five important works that were all published posthumously. "Of books written about law to instruct students, the most notable, written by a common lawyer, is Doderidge's 'English Lawyer.'" --Holdsworth, A History of English Law V:397-398.
Download or read book The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I written by Frederick Pollock and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essential Legal English in Context written by Karen M. Ross and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2019-04-11 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential handbook for international lawyers and students Focusing on vocabulary, Essential Legal English in Context introduces the US legal system and its terminology. Designed especially for foreign-trained lawyers and students whose first language is not English, the book is a must-read for those who want to expand their US legal vocabulary and basic understanding of US government. Ross uses a unique approach by selecting legal terms that arise solely within the context of the levels and branches of US government, including terminology related to current political issues such as partisanship. Inspired by her students’ questions over her years of teaching, she includes a vast collection of legal vocabulary, concepts, idioms, and phrasal verbs and unpacks concepts embedded in US case law, such as how the US constitutional separation of powers may affect a court’s interpretation of the law. The handbook differentiates basic terms in civil and criminal cases and compares terms that may seem similar because of close spellings but in fact have different meanings. For instance, what is the distinction between “taking the stand” and “taking a stand?” What is the difference between “treaties” and “treatises”? Featuring illustrations and hands-on exercises, Essential Legal English in Context is a valuable self-study resource for those who want to improve their legal English terminology before entering a US law school, studying US law or government, or working as a seconded attorney to a US law firm. Instructors can use the handbook in an introductory US legal English course.
Download or read book Professors of the Law written by David Lemmings and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2000-05-11 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happened to the culture of common law and English barristers in the long eighteenth century? In this wide-ranging sequel to Gentlemen and Barristers: The Inns of Court and the English Bar, 1680-1730, David Lemmings not only anatomizes the barristers and their world; he also explores the popular reputation and self-image of the law and lawyers in the context of declining popular participation in litigation, increased parliamentary legislation, and the growth of the imperial state. He shows how the bar survived and prospered in a century of low recruitment and declining work, but failed to fulfil the expectations of an age of Enlightenment and Reform. By contrast with the important role played by the common law, and lawyers, in seventeenth-century England and in colonial America, it appears that the culture and services of the barristers became marginalized as the courts concentrated on elite clients, and parliament became the primary point of contact between government and population. In his conclusion the author suggests that the failure of the bar and the judiciary to follow Blackstones mid-century recommendations for reforming legal culture and delivering the Englishmans birthrights significantly assisted the growth of parliamentary absolutism in government.
Download or read book The Lawyer and the King s English written by Catherine Drinker Bowen and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The English Lawyer written by Sir John Doddridge and published by . This book was released on 1631 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book English Lawyers Between Market and State written by Richard L. Abel and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1990s, reforms in the English legal profession transformed traditions, over the vigorous objections of the judiciary, Bar, and Law Society. This book mines that tumultuous period for insights into the prospects of professionalism in the 21st century.
Download or read book The Merchant s Friend and Lawyer s Assistant Or Technical Vocabulary of Five Hundred Mercantile and Legal Expressions in Ten Languages written by Karel Pieter ter Reehorst and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lincoln Lawyer written by Michael Connelly and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2013 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing Mickey Haller, 'The Lincoln Lawyer': a blistering tale about a cynical defence attorney whose one remaining spark of integrity may cost him his life.
Download or read book Connecting Ethics and Practice A Lawyer s Guide to Professional Responsibility written by Katerina P. Lewinbuk and published by Aspen Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-14 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Connecting Ethics and Practice: A Lawyer’s Guide to Professional Responsibility, Third Edition, the author explains the legal, professional, and ethical constraints that regulate attorneys while keeping the modern law professor and student in mind. Contemporary cases and articles are used to provide for an easier understanding of the Model Rules and Judicial Cannons, which assists in preparing for law school exams and the MPRE. The author employs a user-friendly coursebook format organized in a logical manner while achieving a realistic and manageable length. Mind maps are provided with every chapter to help students visualize and remember selected rules, and discussion questions are used to allow the students to fully comprehend and digest the reading, while also demonstrating real-life struggles most lawyer face at some point in their careers. Based on the unique format, students systematically cover all important aspects of the legal journey from law school to the legal profession. New to the Third Edition: Revised chapters contain contemporary cases, discussions, and studies Updated Model Rule 7 (Advertising) Scholarship throughout the book (in Chs. 1, 4, 10, 12, and 14) has been updated to include more recent and engaging articles New cases: Ch. 7: Federico v. Lincoln Military Hous., LLC Ch. 10: In re Discipline of Hale Ch. 11: People v. Maynard Ch. 12: Bennett v. Hill-Boren, P.C. Benefits for instructors and students: The easy-to-follow logical sequence of all relevant rules are clearly articulated at the beginning of the book and then reiterated accordingly in every chapter The structured material is well-suited for a new or experienced professor Chapters are based on quality readings as opposed to quantity Engaging, realistic examples exhibit how each Rule relates to practice Simple, consistent organization of each chapter offers a clear and logical layout, allowing for ease of use and teaching throughout Chapter introductions begin with concise explanations of the applicable Rules to be discussed Readings are controversial, contemporary, and thought-provoking Flexible organization allows for the material to be adapted to meet the individual needs of each class; professors can use as much or as little guidance as needed, and the material can be adjusted for a 2- or 3-credit course Discussion questions at the end of each reading, as well as at the end of each chapter, encourage colorful and lively dialogue and participation (which can be used in detail if time permits, or just used for student understanding of the material for class preparation) Table of Model Rules with applicable page numbers provide easy reference
