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    Writing Shorter Legal Documents: Strategies for Faster and Better Editing

    By Dr Sandra J. Oster

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    In a legal document, in accordance with federal, state, and local court rules, every letter and space is important. Writing Shorter Legal Documents is a concise, practical handbook that explains how to quickly, efficiently reduce the length of your legal documents. It's a collection of advice written to keep you within grammatical and court rules, for both length and construction, while preserving and even clarifying your argument. The author, a lawyer with a Ph.D in linguistics, has divided 35 precise strategies into five chapters:
    An Approach to Shorten Legal Documents
    Revising Terminology
    Revising Lists, Phrases, and Sentences
    Changing the Appearance of Text on the Page
    Cutting Content
    When you're on a deadline with the court and are over the maximum word count in your document, this book provides the fast, easy editing tricks you'll need.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAmerican Bar Association
    Release dateApr 16, 2012
    ISBN9781614382263
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