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.
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.
Guberman offers strategies for pruning clutter, adding background, emphasizing key points, adopting a narrative voice, and guiding the reader through visual cues.
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.
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.
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.
The appendix provides a helpful checklist of practice pointers along with biographies of the 34 featured judges.
Finally, he addresses the thorny problem of dissents, extracting the Best practices for dissents based on facts, doctrine, or policy.
He also outlines his style Nice to Haves, metaphors, similes, examples, analogies, allusions, and rhetorical figures.
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.
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 offers strategies for pruning clutter, adding background, emphasizing key points, adopting a narrative voice, and guiding the reader through visual cues.
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.
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.
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
