Sentence, Paragraph, Argument, Brief

Meeting the Four Challenges of Legal Writing

David N. Greenwald (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

2025
American Bar Association (Verlag)
9781639056552 (ISBN)

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Sentence, Paragraph, Argument, Brief is a fresh, comprehensive, and above all practical guide to writing briefs, informed by decades of working and teaching at one of the nation’s foremost law firms. The book organizes itself around a single theme: good briefs reflect careful attention to the sequence of words, sentences, paragraphs, and arguments. The book explains how to arrange these building blocks of legal prose, throughout illustrating its guidance with before-and-after examples drawn from filed briefs. Unlike other books on this topic, this book gives as many turnkey tips for organizing arguments and briefs as for drafting sentences and paragraphs. It focuses distinctively on the real-world writing challenges, large and small, that litigators face every day.

The book’s original - but practice-tested - treatment of its subject addresses topics other legal writing texts largely ignore. These include how to:

Reposition words in a sentence to enhance its persuasiveness
Classify paragraphs to help organize arguments
Enhance paragraph flow and coherence
Improve professional diction to bolster credibility
Group related contentions together to make arguments more coherent
Control the tone of background statements to advance a client’s position
Refine and coordinate argument headings to help ease judges into arguments
Structure tables of contents to transparently reveal a brief’s logic
Edit others’ drafts efficiently and without workplace friction, and
Improve writing on your own

David N. Greenwald has devoted over three decades to writing and editing briefs and to teaching those skills to practicing lawyers. After clerking for Judge Richard A. Posner, he began his career in 1994 at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, the nation’s second oldest law firm. A few years later, he joined the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and served there as a federal prosecutor for three and a half years. He then returned to Cravath in 2000, where he became a partner in the Litigation Department. In addition to teaching legal writing at Cravath, he has been invited to teach legal writing at other law firms throughout the United States. He currently serves as the ‘Respectfully Submitted’ columnist for the ABA Litigation Journal. Greenwald graduated in 1990 from Harvard College (summa cum laude) and in 1993 from the University of Chicago Law School (high honors). As a law student, he won the Bustin Prize for the best Law Review comment.

Erscheinungsdatum	23.09.2025
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Chicago, IL
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Berufs-/Gebührenrecht
ISBN-13	9781639056552 / 9781639056552
Zustand	Neuware