Ross Guberman

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Point Taken: How to Write Like the World's Best JudgesPaperback, 1 September 2015

Point Taken: How to Write Like the World's Best Judges
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Print Length
376 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published
1 Sep 2015
ISBN-10
0190268581
ISBN-13
9780190268589

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In Point Taken, Ross Guberman delves into the work of the best judicial opinion-writers and offers a step-by-step method based on practical and provocative examples. Featuring numerous cases and opinions from 34 esteemed judges - from Learned Hand to Antonin Scalia - Point Taken, explores what it takes to turn "great judicial writing" into "great writing".

Guberman provides a system for crafting effective and efficient openings to set the stage, covering the pros and cons of whether to resolve legal issues up front and whether to sacrifice taut syllogistic openings in the name of richness and nuance. Guberman offers strategies for pruning clutter, adding background, emphasizing key points, adopting a narrative voice, and guiding the reader through visual cues. The structure and flow of the legal analysis is targeted through a host of techniques for organizing the discussion at the macro level, using headings, marshaling authorities, including or avoiding footnotes, and finessing transitions. Guberman shares his style "Must Haves", 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. He also outlines his style "Nice to Haves", metaphors, similes, examples, analogies, allusions, and rhetorical figures. Finally, he addresses the thorny problem of
dissents, extracting the best practices for dissents based on facts, doctrine, or policy. The appendix provides a helpful checklist of practice pointers along with biographies of the 34 featured judges.

Product Details

Author:
Ross Guberman
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
1 September 2015
Dimensions:
20.83 x 13.72 x 2.54 cm
ISBN-10:
0190268581
ISBN-13:
9780190268589
Language:
English
Pages:
376
Weight:
408.23 gm

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