Bryan A. Garner is a best-selling legal author with more than a dozen titles to his credit, including A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage, The Winning Brief, A Dictionary of Modern American Usage, and Legal Writing in Plain English. He is also the editor in chief of Black's Law Dictionary in all its current editions.
"Publishers each year spew out writing books for law students by
the dozen. Forget them. This is the best. We had not believed that
this classic work could be substantially improved. The inimitable
Mr. Garner has proven this belief wrong, and happily so."-ABA
Appellate Practice Journal
"Garner has given to the legal profession [an] extraordinary
book....Invaluable."--South Dakota Law Review
"Bryan Garner...is rapidly becoming--if he's not there
already--America's foremost authority on language and the
law."--Barrister
"An expanded and more relaxed edition of his 1991
sourcebook."--William Safire, New York Times Magazine
"Publishers each year spew out writing books for law students by
the dozen. Forget them. This is the best. We had not believed that
this classic work could be substantially improved. The inimitable
Mr. Garner has proven this belief wrong, and happily so."-ABA
Appellate Practice Journal
"Provides expanded coverage of appropriate legal prose and common
errors in legal language....This book speaks not only to lawyers
but to other writers as well, urging them to use style to develop
persuasion, description, or analysis. Highly Recommended."--Library
Journal
"Belongs on every lawyer's shelf of essential writing aids."--New
York Law Journal "Well worth the price."--Appellate Practice
Journal "A vital resource for anyone who wants to write clear and
powerful legal prose."--Detroit Legal News "A hard-hitting
book....Garner offers such articulate and well-reasoned advise that
I feel guilty for all the lawyer jokes I've told over the
years."--Ft. Worth Star-Telegram
"If lawyers all followed the advice that Garner gives here, the
rest of us would probably be able to understand legal documents
written on our behalf. Besides being a good all-purpose primer on
style and usage (it recalls but is much more comprehensive than
Strunk and White's Elements of Style), this book discusses
legalisms from absolve to withal."--Copy Editor
"An excellent reference manual."--Bimonthly Review of Law Books
Praise for the first edition:
"Garner has given to the legal profession [an] extraordinary
book....Invaluable."--South Dakota Law Review
"Bryan Garner...is rapidly becoming--if he's not there
already--America's foremost authority on language and the
law."--Barrister
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