Mightier Than the Sword: Powerful Writing in the Legal Profession

by C. Edward Good

Book Overview

Mightier Than The Sword is a first-rate work. It teaches you exactly how to improve your writing in law school and beyond. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0934961034
• ISBN13: 9780934961035
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Legal Education, Ltd
• Length: 247 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Sentence-level advice and an overview of legal analysis.

The author of this book is a respected writer and a teacher of legal writing. He knows his way around grammar, and it shows in this book. It contains a lot of detailed advice for constructing readable and sensible legal sentences. In a few places it was, in fact, perhaps a little too dense and detailed for the typical lawyer. Still, lawyers need to know how to create clear and correct sentences, and this book shows how.The next part of the book discusses "the content of legal writing." It addresses the basics of legal analysis in the context of a traditional legal memo. Though the treatment is fairly general and short, it does present a lot of basic and reliable advice for writing a legal analysis.