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Garner’s Coursebook on Drafting & Editing Contracts, 2019

Bryan A. Garner, the editor in chief of Black’s Law Dictionary, has long championed not only better contract drafting but also better legislative drafting, rule drafting, brief-writing, and legal writing generally. With Garner’s Coursebook on Drafting & Editing Contracts, Garner draws on more than 30 years of experience in teaching contract drafting and in consulting on contracts for …

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Garner’s Guidelines for Drafting & Editing Contracts, 2019

Bryan A. Garner, the editor in chief of Black’s Law Dictionary, has long been the standard bearer not only for contract drafting but also for legislative drafting, rule drafting, brief-writing, and legal writing generally. With Garner’s Guidelines for Drafting & Editing Contracts, Garner draws on more than 30 years of experience in teaching contract drafting and consulting on …

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Black’s Law Dictionary, unabridged 11th edition, 2019

For nearly 130 years, Black’s Law Dictionary has been the gold standard for the language of the law. The greatly expanded 11th edition, with new material on every page, is at once the most practical, comprehensive, scholarly, and authoritative law dictionary ever published. With clarity and rigor, it defines more than 55,000 law-related words and phrases, recording their historical …

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Black’s Law Dictionary, 6th pocket edition, 2021

Black’s Law Dictionary, Pocket Edition, is the top-selling paperback law dictionary for good reason. With more than 21,000 definitions from the industry-standard Black’s Law Dictionary 11th edition, it is an essential reference tool for legal terms in a compact format. The terms that matter most―with clear and concise definitions―are included, from the legal dictionary that judges and …

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Black’s Law Dictionary, 10th edition, 2015

Compiled from the most-cited legal dictionary in the world, Black’s Law Dictionary 10th Abridged Edition contains more than 50,000 terms in an easy-to-use softbound format. Prepared by legal lexicographer Bryan A. Garner, the Abridged Edition is a trusted authority for legal research. More than 7,500 new terms are found in the 10th Abridged Edition, from affluenza defense to zero-tolerance law. …

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Securities Disclosure in Plain English

Securities Disclosure in Plain English tells you everything you need to know about complying with the SEC’s plain-English rule. In clear, readable language that illustrates the approach it explains, the book liberates readers from the old-style drafting conventions that make most disclosure documents so mind-numbingly legalistic. The book is filled with before-and-after examples showing how to …

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Black’s Law Dictionary, Deluxe unabridged 10th edition, 2014

The most authoritative, comprehensive law dictionary ever published, Black’s is thought to be the world’s most-cited lawbook. For more than a century, Black’s has been the gold standard for the language of law. The tenth edition, containing over 57,000 terms, was prepared by Bryan A. Garner, the world’s foremost legal lexicographer, and his team at LawProse. He and his colleagues …

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Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts, Antonin Scalia & Bryan A. Garner

Do legal documents change their meaning over time? Are judges empowered to update them as they see fit? Is our written Constitution the only Constitution we have, or is there another one that exists outside the text? Does the judicial power include the power to legislate? May judges overturn duly enacted statutes that they think …

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Black’s Law Dictionary, Deluxe unabridged 9th edition, 2009

The most authoritative, comprehensive law dictionary ever published, Black’s is the world’s most-cited lawbook in judicial opinions. For more than a century, Black’s has been the gold standard for the language of law. The ninth edition, containing over 45,000 terms, was reviewed by a distinguished panel of more than 200 critical readers—judges, law professors, and practitioners throughout the world. …

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Black’s Law Dictionary (Pocket), 3d pocket edition, 2006

The handy pocket edition of America’s foremost legal lexicon, Black’s Law Dictionary, provides more than 10,000 clear, concise, and precise definitions. It’s an essential companion to the standard edition for quick reference and easy tucking away into backpacks and briefcases. Many a law student has been saved by this small but informative guide to the legal …

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Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges — an unabridged reading by the authors (Audio CD)

Two renowned legal minds met one brisk fall afternoon for a spirited and intimate reading of their remarkable, award-winning book. Hear the wisdom from this book straight from the authors’ mouths. There’s nothing else like it. What others are saying: “Real credibility comes with an established reputation for excellence that a lawyer develops over a …

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Garner on Language & Writing

The nation’s foremost expert on writing, style, and usage, Bryan A. Garner, now collects his finest essays on writing, language, and style, in this massive anthology. These articles run the gamut from advice for beginning writers, to essays on writing successfully as a professional. Also included are hilarious chapters on puns, curiosities, vocabulary use, and other …

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Garner’s Modern American Usage, 2d edition, 2003

Published to great acclaim in 1998, A Dictionary of Modern American Usage quickly became a classic reference work, establishing Bryan Garner as the “American equivalent of Fowler” (Library Journal). Witty, accessible, and engaging, Garner’s work proved to be not only an authoritative guide for writers, editors, and students, but also a delightful diversion for language lovers. Since …

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Legal Writing in Plain English: A Text with Exercises

This book embodies every important principle of plain-English writing, from word choice to large-scale organization, from litigation papers to transactional documents. Each of the 50 sections is illuminated by a trenchant explanation, followed by exercises (basic, intermediate, and advanced). The book is especially useful as the text for a writing course, and its model documents …

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A Handbook of Basic Law Terms

An excellent start in learning about any discipline is learning the vocabulary. This book might be called a dictionary of legal literacy: it contains the most important and most common words and phrases used in law. These terms denote fundamental legal concepts. Whether you use this Handbook as a vocabulary-builder or as a quick reference, you’ll find …

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A Handbook of Business Law Terms

This handy paperback pulls together more than 3,000 key words and phrases that focus on the terms most important in every field of business—from Accounting to Securities. Filled with accurate, brief, and clear definitions with examples, this pocket-sized book should be tucked inside every desk and briefcase. “In today’s business environment, knowledge of the law …

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A Handbook of Criminal Law Terms

This compact dictionary of over 3,000 criminal-law terms is full of accurate, brief, and clear definitions with examples. This book is a must for any prosecutor, defense attorney, and public defender. There is no better quick-reference quick guide for all attorneys working in this field of law. If you buy using links on this page, we …

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