The Pocket Guide to Legal Writing, Spiral Bound Version

Putman, William H.

ISBN 10: 1401865976 ISBN 13: 9781401865979

Verlag: Cengage Learning, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

The Pocket Guide to Legal Writing is designed as a desk book for use by practicing paralegals, legal assistants, attorneys, and students. It is a reference book that allows the user to quickly obtain the answer to many commonly encountered writing questions concerning the following subjects: sentence and paragraph drafting, word selection and usage, spelling, numbers, grammar, punctuation, legal citation, legal correspondence, legal research memoranda, and court briefs. It also includes a chapter on the location of various non fee-based internet and other computer based legal research sources. In addition is a chapter discussing the various time deadlines under federal rules of civil and criminal procedure. The book is color coded so information may be easily located and designed to lie flat on a desk next to a computer. It is written in a non technical manner and designed so that it is easy to understand and use by anyone working in a law office. It includes checklist for use in conjunction with the various types of legal writing.

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William Putman is a lawyer and former instructor in the programs for Legal Assistant Studies at Central New Mexico Community College in Albuquerque and Paralegal Studies at Santa Fe Community College. A member of the New Mexico Bar since 1975, he received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of New Mexico School of Law.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cengage Learning
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1401865976
• ISBN 13: 9781401865979
• Einband: Plastikspiralbindung
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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