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Richard C. Wydick is a professor of law at the University of California-Davis School of Law.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Really Useful, July 23 2010

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M. Lindsay (Calgary, AB) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Plain English for Lawyers (Paperback)

I think this book should be a must read for every law student. Realistically, it would not have been that useful in first year, but it's great once you actually start working in summers and writing memos. I'm so glad I took the time to work through the exercises, it really improved my writing. I highly recommend; the earlier the better, so that the bad habits are easier to break.

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5.0 out of 5 stars solid advise!, July 4 2007

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Bob "Sh200kr" (Canada) - See all my reviews

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Richard C. Wydick's book is easy to understand. He tells us how to write simple and powerful sentences and rewrite messy and heavy paragraph in easier way.
This is a great book and must-read for all students.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Legal-Writing Classic, Sep 11 2002

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This book provides great advice and practical, well-designed exercises. Once considered radical by most lawyers, the book has helped reform legal writing, teaching a generation of lawyers that their writing "should not differ, without good reason, from ordinary well-written English."

The book is also a model of effective prose. It's clear and understandable even to a first-year law student. Yet it's also valuable to seasoned lawyers, especially to those die-hard lawyers who insist that legal writing should remain dense, and often incomprehensible, just because it's always been that way.

Well-respected experts such as Wydick and Garner reject that notion. And clients, who often succeed or fail (and sometimes live or die) by their lawyers' words, should reject it too.

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5.0 out of 5 stars If only every Lawyer read this...
This book was required reading for my first year in law school. After having read through it, I am glad it was. I wish that more lawyers were required to read it. Read more

Published on Aug 22 2002 by DJK ver 2.0

5.0 out of 5 stars A ground-breaker that became a classic.
I first read this book in 1989, and I loved it. It made so much sense, yet it seemed so radical to a young associate at a large law firm. Read more

Published on Jun 4 2002 by Wayne Schiess