External Resources

So much has been written for many years about plain legal language all around the world. Here are articles, Web page, books from plain language experts or scholars that may interest you.

  • Plain Language in Plain English

    Cheryl Stephens, 2010

  • Clear and Precise Writing: Skills for Today’s Lawyer

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  • The Legal Writer: 40 Rules for the Art of Legal Writing

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  • Plain Language Legal Writing

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  • Win More Cases: The Lawyer’s Toolkit

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  • Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges

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  • A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting (2017)

    Author : Ken Adams

    “It’s the only authoritative guide to the building blocks of contract language, and it’s in widespread use internationally. In this review, the Law Society Gazette says it’s “extraordinary.” The first edition was published by the American Bar Association in 2004; the fourth edition was published in 2017.”

    Source : https://www.adamsdrafting.com/writing/mscd/

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  • Writing at Work: How to write clearly, effectively and professionally

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  • On Writing Well

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  • Lifting the Fog of Legalese (2011)

    Author : Joseph Kimble

    “This book is unique. No other American book combines the strong evidence and myth-busting arguments for plain legal language with so much practical advice and so many useful examples. And no other book is more likely to open lawyers’ eyes to the emptiness of legalese—the style that has afflicted legal writing for centuries.

    Joseph Kimble, a leading expert on plain language, has collected in this one book many of his published essays. They will interest and inform judges, lawyers, law students, legal scholars, and anyone else who engages in legal writing. If writing is the lawyer’s most valuable skill, then no lawyer can afford to be without Lifting the Fog of Legalese. It will change the attitude of those who resist plain language and inspire those who have embraced it.”

    Source : https://cap-press.com/books/isbn/9781594602122/Lifting-the-Fog-of-Legalese

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