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Writing and Drafting in Legal Practice
A comprehensive guide to writing and drafting from the first stage of preparation to the final edit. Features checklists, worked examples and chapters on using email, and designed to accompany readers from vocational study through to their qualification as solicitors as well as throughout the early years of practice.
Author(s) | By Paul Rylance (Legal training consultant). |
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Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Format | Paperback / softback |
Pages | 328 |
Published in | United Kingdom |
Published | 2 Feb 2012 |
Availability | Available |
A comprehensive guide to writing and drafting from the first stage of preparation to the final edit. Features checklists, worked examples and chapters on using email, and designed to accompany readers from vocational study through to their qualification as solicitors as well as throughout the early years of practice.
PART 1. PLAIN ENGLISH AND THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF LEGAL WRITING AND DRAFTING; PART 2. LETTERS, EMAILS AND AND OTHER FORMS OF WRITTEN COMMUNICATION; PART 3. DRAFTING
Following seven years of practice at the bar and teaching law, Paul Rylance spent over seven years as Head of Education and Training with Slaughter and May, and SJ Berwin. During this time he became the first Chariman of the Legal Education and Training G