Legal Writing

QuickStudy Laminated Reference Guide

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• Publisher: QuickStudy Reference Guides
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9781423240679
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: Law Theory & Practice
• Index: Law

Best practices for legal writing in the workplace and for students of law. BarCharts, Inc was founded on our law guides created by the owner, designed to understand the significance of details within the larger scheme of the law, as a daily refresher, and to review before the Bar Exam. Twenty five years later we keep those guides up to date for students of law and criminal justice, paralegals and practicing lawyers to have the most handy legal reference to the most important points of the law possible in 6 laminated pages.
6-page laminated guide includes:

• Essentials of a Legal Memorandum
• Creating the Heading
• Explaining the Facts
• Drafting the Question Presented
• Drafting the Brief Answer Section
• Drafting the Discussion Section
• Drafting the Conclusion Section
• More Complex Organization Plans
• Best Practices for Editing & Revising
• Types of Legal Logic
• Plain English Translation Table

Suggested uses:

• Students – keep your legal writing in check with a quick review plus constant refreshers before classes and exams
• Professionals – keep your legal writing in check long after passing the Bar exam
• Bar Exam – great review tool before for taking the exam

Plain English Table

Lawyers and judges are busy people who read many, many pages of material each day. To boost clarity, streamline your writing. Be complete, clear, and concise. Even word choice matters. Refer to the lists below to help you make appropriate changes

Word/Phrase	Replace With
Accordingly	So
Acquire	Get
Adequate number	Enough
Adjudicate	Decide
Advise	Tell, recommend
Afford an opportunity	Let
Along the lines of	Like
Anticipate	Expect
Approximately	About
As to	About, on, of
Ascertain	Find out, learn
Assist	Help
At that/this point in time	Then/Now
At the present time	Now
At the time	When
Be benefited by	Benefit from
Be determinative of	Determine
Be dispositive of	Dispose of, finish
Benefit	Help
By and between	Between
By means of	By
By reason of	Because of
By virtue of	By, under
Close proximity	Near
Commence	Begin
Communicate	Write, tell, talk
Compensate	Pay
Complete	Fill out
Consequence	Result
Contiguous to	Next to
Covenants (noun & verb)	Promises
Demonstrate	Show, prove
Despite the fact that	Although
Due to the fact that	Since, as, because
During the time that	During, while
Effect (verb)	Make, cause
Elect	Choose
Endeavor (verb)	Try
Ensue	Follow
Excessive number	Too many
Exhibit	Show, display
File a motion	Move
For the period of	For
For the purpose of	To
For the reason that	Because
Forward (verb)	Send, mail
From the point of view	From, for
Furnish	Send, give
Give consideration to	Consider
Has the capability	Can
Hence	So, thus
However	But
Identical	Same
Implement	Carry out, do
In accordance with	By, under
In addition	Also
In an effort to	To
In cases which	When, where, if
In connection with	With, about, concerning
In favor of	For, favoring
In lieu of	Instead of
In order to	To
In relation to	About, concerning
In so much as	As, since, because
In terms of	In, by, with [or rephrase entirely]
In the case of	When
In the event that	If
In the nature of	Like
In the near future	Soon
In view of the fact that	As, since
Inasmuch as	As, since
Inception	Start, beginning
Incumbent upon	Must
Indicate	Show, explain, say, testify
Insufficient	Not enough
Is able to	Can
Is applicable	Applies
Is binding upon	Binds
Is entitled to	May
Is required to	Must
Locate	Find
Location	Place
Made and entered	Made (or entered)
Make contact with	See, meet, talk to
Make reference to	Refer to
Nevertheless	But, however, even so
Notwithstanding the fact that	Although
Numerous	Many, most, several [estimate count]
Observe	See, watch, look at
On the basis of	By, from, because of
On the part of	By
Personnel	People, persons, staff, employees
Presently	Soon, now
Prior to	Before
Provided that	If, unless
Pursuant to	Under
Relating to	About, on [or a specific connector]
Said (as an adjective)	The, this, that, it [or actual name]
State (verb)	Say
Subsequent(ly)	Later, next
Subsequent to	After
Sufficient	Enough
Terminate (non-legal usage)	Stop, end
The reason...is because	The reason...is that (or rephrase)
This is a topic that	This topic
Time period	Time
To be sure	Of course
Transpire	Happen
Transport	Bring, send
Under the provisions of	Under
Until such time as	Until
Utilize/Utilization	Use
Viable	Workable, possible
Whereas	As, since
With a view to	To
With reference to	On, about, concerning
With regard to	On, about, concerning
With respect to	On, about, concerning
Witnessed	Saw

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Aforementioned

Herein

Hereinafter

Hereinbefore

Hereunto

Insofar as...is concerned

Know all men by these presents

Now therefore

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Whereas

Wherefore

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Table of contents

• The Essentials Of A Legal Memorandum
• Creating The Heading
• Explaining The Facts
• Drafting The Question Presented
• Drafting The Brief Answer Section
• Drafting The Discussion Section
• Drafting The Conclusion Section
• More Complex Organization Plans
• Best Practices For Editing & Revising
• Types Of Legal Logic
• Plain English Table