Point Taken: How to Write Like the World's Best Judges,Used
Point Taken: How to Write Like the World's Best Judges,Used
Point Taken: How to Write Like the World's Best Judges,Used

Point Taken: How to Write Like the World's Best Judges,Used

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In Point Taken, Ross Guberman delves into the work of the best judicial opinionwriters and offers a stepbystep method based on practical and provocative examples. Featuring numerous cases and opinions from 34 esteemed 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 34 featured judges.

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