Sentence, Paragraph, Argument, Brief: Meeting the Four Challenges of Legal Writing

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...