The Redbook: A Manual on Legal Style

About this book

The Redbook provides a comprehensive guide to the essential rules of legal writing. Unlike most style or grammar guides it focuses on the special needs of legal writers answering a wide spectrum of questions about grammar and style both rules as well as exceptions. The Redbook also gives detailed authoritative advice on punctuation capitalization spelling footnotes and citations with illustrations in legal context. Designed for law students law professors practicing lawyers and judges the work emphasizes the ways in which legal writing differs from other styles of technical writing. The "how-to" sections deal with editing and proofreading numbers and symbols and overall document design.