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Point Taken - How To Write Like the World's Best Judges (Paperback)
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Point Taken - How To Write Like the World's Best Judges (Paperback)
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In Point Taken, Ross Guberman delves into the work of the best
judicial opinion-writers and offers a step-by-step method based on
practical and provocative examples. Featuring numerous cases and
opinions from 35 prolific judges - from Learned Hand to Antonin
Scalia - Point Taken, explores what it takes to turn "great
judicial writing" into "great writing". Guberman provides a system
for crafting effective and efficient openings to set the stage,
covering the pros and cons of whether to resolve legal issues up
front and whether to sacrifice taut syllogistic openings in the
name of richness and nuance. Guberman offers strategies for pruning
clutter, adding background, emphasizing key points, adopting a
narrative voice, and guiding the reader through visual cues. The
structure and flow of the legal analysis is targeted through a host
of techniques for organizing the discussion at the macro level,
using headings, marshaling authorities, including or avoiding
footnotes, and finessing transitions. Guberman shares his style
"Must Haves", a bounty of edits at the word and sentence level that
add punch and interest, and that make opinions more vivid, varied,
confident, and enjoyable. He also outlines his style "Nice to
Haves", metaphors, similes, examples, analogies, allusions, and
rhetorical figures. Finally, he addresses the thorny problem of
dissents, extracting the best practices for dissents based on
facts, doctrine, or policy. The appendix provides a helpful
checklist of practice pointers along with biographies of the 35
featured judges.
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