Point Taken: How to Write Like the World's Best Judges

Written by a renowned practitioner, educator, and consultant with decades of experience, and author of the best seller "Point Made"
Delves into the work of the best judicial opinion-writers and offers a step-by-step method based on practical and provocative examples
Features numerous cases and opinions from 34 esteemed judges - from Learned Hand to Antonin Scalia
Explores what it takes to turn "great judicial writing" into "great writing"
Offers strategies for pruning clutter, adding background, emphasizing key points, adopting a narrative voice, and guiding the reader through visual cues
Shares 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
Probes the thorny problem of dissents, extracting the best practices for dissents based on facts, doctrine, or policy
Appendix provides an essential checklist of practice pointers, along with biographies of the 35 featured judges

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