As New Condition. (200 pages including index) Dimensions: 0.8 x 6 x 9.5 inches. Weight: 12.8 ounces "Expert Legal Writing" is exactly what the cover proclaims; a book to help you become the best legal writer you can become. Every lawyer could use the author's advice to improve their own writing and to help mentor associates or colleagues. The book covers the basics: 1) writing like a lawyer, 2) overcoming writer's block, 3) managing sentence structure(s), 4) handling punctuation (including common myths), and 5)other valuable foundational writing tools. This book also offers extremely helpful advice on legal organizations and deductive reasoning. This book can provide the quick assistance you need when you are puzzled (overwhelmed or just stuck) on how to write the very best legal argument. For ten years, Terri LeClercq's "Legal Writing" column in the Texas Bar Journal has helped polish the prose of lawyers and law students, judges and clerks, paralegals, writing instructors, and legal secretaries. This book collects all the advice she has given in her columns into one authoritative guide for expert legal writing. LeClercq covers everything a legal writer needs to know, from the mechanics of grammar and punctuation to the finer points of style, organization, and clarity of meaning. With her practical, readable, and often humorous advice, those who prepare legal documents can rid their prose of mind-numbing "legalese" and write with the clarity and precision that characterize the very best legal writing