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Bill drafting -- United States.
Legal, legislative, and rule drafting in plain English / by Robert J. Martineau, Michael B. Salerno.
St. Paul, Minn. : Thomson West c2005.
Ref Writing KF4950 .M375 2005. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record
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Briefs -- United States.
Persuasive written and oral advocacy in trial and appellate courts / Michael R. Fontham, Michael Vitiello, David W. Miller.
Austin, Tex. : Wolters Kluwer, c2007.
Ref Writing KF251 .F658 2007. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record
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Business law -- Dictionaries.
Dictionary of international business law / Lucas Otto.
London : Global Professional Pub., c2008.
Ref Writing K1004.6 .O88 2008. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record
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Business law -- United States -- Dictionaries.
A Handbook of business law terms / Bryan A. Garner, editor ; David W. Schultz, Lance A. Cooper, Elizabeth C. Powell, assistant editors.
St. Paul, MN : West Group, 1999.
Ref Writing KF390.B84 H36 1999. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record
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Business writing.
The workplace writing workbook : tips designed to stick / by Ken Bresler.
Buffalo, NY : W.S. Hein, 2004.
Ref Writing HF5718.3 .B745 2004. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record
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Citation of legal authorities -- Great Britain.
Index to legal citations and abbreviations : / Donald Raistrick, foreword by the Rt. Hon. The Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury.
London : Sweet & Maxwell, 2008.
Ref Writing KD400 .R35 2008. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record
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Citation of legal authorities.
Guide to foreign and international legal citations.
New York, NY : Aspen Publishers, 2009.
Ref Writing K89 .G85 2009. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record
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Criminal law -- United States -- Dictionaries.
A Handbook of criminal law terms / Bryan A. Garner, editor ; David W. Schultz, Elizabeth C. Powell, Lance A. Cooper, assistant editors. TITLE = Criminal law terms.
St. Paul, MN : West Group, 2000.
Ref Writing KF9217 .H36 2000. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record
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Domestic relations -- United States -- Dictionaries.
A Handbook of family law terms / Bryan A. Garner, editor in chief ; Cynde L. Horne, assistant editor.
St. Paul, MN : West Group, 2001.
Ref Writing KF503.6 .H36 2001. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record
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English language -- Dictionaries.
Webster's encyclopedic unabridged dictionary of the English language.
New York : Gramercy Books, c1996.
Ref Writing PE1625 .W46 1996. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

Shorter Oxford English dictionary on historical principles.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2002.
Ref Writing PE1625 .S47 2002. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

The American Heritage college dictionary.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c2002.
Ref Writing PE1628 .A6227 2002. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

Random House Webster's college dictionary.
New York : Random House, 2000.
Ref Writing PE1628 .R28 2000. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

Merriam-Webster's collegiate dictionary.
Springfield, MA : Merriam-Webster, Inc., c2003.
Ref Writing PE1628 .M36 2003. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

Merriam-Webster's collegiate dictionary.
Springfield, Mass. : Merriam-Webster, Inc., c2006.
Ref Writing PE1628 .M36 2006. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record
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English language -- Synonyms and antonyms.
Merriam-Webster's collegiate thesaurus.
Springfield, MA : Merriam-Webster, [1993?], c1988.
Ref Writing PE1591 .W38 1993. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record
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English language -- United States -- Usage -- Dictionaries.
Garner's modern American usage / Bryan A. Garner.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Ref Writing PE2827 .G37 2003. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record
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English language -- Usage -- Dictionaries.
Merriam-Webster's dictionary of English usage.
Springfield, MA : Merriam-Webster, Inc., c1994.
Ref Writing PE1460 .M45 1994. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record
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Environmental law -- United States -- Dictionaries.
The environmental regulatory dictionary / compiled by James J. King.
Hoboken, N.J. : J. Wiley & Sons, c2005.
Ref Writing KF3775.A68 K57 2005. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record
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Gazetteers.
Merriam-Webster's geographical dictionary.
Springfield, MA : Merriam-Webster, c2001.
Ref Writing G103.5 .W42 2001. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record
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International law -- Dictionaries.
Dictionary of international and comparative law / James R. Fox.
Dobbs Ferry, NY : Oceana Publications, c2003.
Ref Writing KZ1161 .F69 2003. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

Parry and Grant encyclopaedic dictionary of international law / edited by John P. Grant and J. Craig Barker.
New York : Oceana Publications, Inc., 2004.
Ref Writing KZ1161 .P37 2004. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

International law : a dictionary / Boleslaw A. Boczek.
Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2005.
Ref Writing KZ1161 .B63 2005. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record
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Latin language -- Dictionaries.
Latin words and phrases for lawyers.
Ontario, Canada : Law and Business Pub., [c1980].
Ref Writing K204 .L3. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record
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Law -- Abbreviations.
World dictionary of legal abbreviations / general editors, Igor I. Kavass, Mary Miles Prince.
Ref Writing K89 .K38. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record
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Law -- Dictionaries -- Spanish.
Spanish law dictionary : Spanish/English, English/Spanish = Diccionario de términos jurídicos : espanõl-inglés, inglés-español.
Teddington : Peter Collin Pub., 2000, c1999.
Ref Writing K52 .S6 2000. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

Butterworths Spanish/English legal dictionary = Diccionario jurídico español/inglés Butterworths / Guillermo Cabanellas de las Cuevas, Eleanor C. Hoague.
Austin, TX : Butterworth Legal Publishers, c1991.
Ref Writing K52.S6 C33 1991. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record
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Law -- Dictionaries.
Ballentine's law dictionary : with pronunciations. [By] James A. Ballentine.
Rochester, NY : Lawyers Co-operative Pub. Co. ; San Francisco, CA : Bancroft-Whitney Co., 1969.
Ref Writing KF156 .B3 1969. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

McGraw-Hill's Spanish and English legal dictionary = diccionario jurídico inglés-español / Henry Saint Dahl.
New York : McGraw-Hill, c2004.
Ref Writing K52.S6 D33 2004. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

A law dictionary of words, terms, abbreviations, and phrases which are peculiar to the law and of those which have a peculiar meaning in the law, containing Latin phrases and maxims, with their translations and a table of the names of the reports and their abbreviations / by James A. Ballentine.
Clark N.J. : Lawbook Exchange, 2005.
Ref Writing K50 .B35 2005. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record
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Law -- England -- Dictionaries.
Osborn's concise law dictionary.
London : Sweet & Maxwell, 2001.
Ref Writing KD313 .O8 2001. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record
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Law -- Great Britain -- Dictionaries.
Dictionary of law / P. H. Collin.
Teddington, Middlesex, [England] : Peter Collin Pub., 2000.
Ref Writing KD313 .C64 2000. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record
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Law -- Russia (Federation) -- Dictionaries -- Russian.
Russian-English legal dictionary and bibliographic sources for Russian law in English / W.E. Butler.
Ardsley, NY : Transnational Publishers ; London : Simmonds& Hill, c2001.
Ref Writing K52.R8 B878 2001. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record
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Law -- Study and teaching -- United States.
Legal English : an introduction to the legal language and culture of the United States / Teresa Kissane Brostoff, Ann Sinsheimer.
Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. : Oceana Publications, c2003.
Ref Writing KF272 .B76 2003. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record
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Law -- United States -- Dictionaries.
A Handbook of basic law terms / Bryan A. Garner, editor ; David W. Schultz, Lance A. Cooper, Stephen W. Kotara, assistant editors.
St. Paul, MN : West Group, 1999.
Ref Writing KF156 .H359 1999. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

Law dictionary. TITLE = Black's law dictionary.
St. Paul, MN : West Group, 2001.
Ref Writing KF156 .B532 2001. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

Merriam-Webster's dictionary of law.
Springfield, MA : Merriam-Webster, c1996.
Ref Writing KF156 .M47 1996. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

Random House Webster's dictionary of the law / James E. Clapp.
New York : Random House, c2000.
Ref Writing KF156 .C57 2000. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

Law dictionary / Steven H. Gifis.
Hauppauge, NY : Barron's, c2003.
Ref Writing KF156 .G53 2003. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

The law dictionary : pronouncing edition : a dictionary of legal words and phrases with Latin and French maxims of the law, translated and explained.
Cincinnati, OH : Anderson Pub., c1997.
Ref Writing KF156 .L37 1997. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

Oran's dictionary of the law / Daniel Oran ; Mark Tosti, contributing author.
Clifton Park, NY : Thomson Delmar Learning, c2008.
Ref Writing KF156 .O69 2008. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

Webster's new world law dictionary / by Susan Ellis Wild.
Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, c2006.
Ref Writing KF156 .W54 2006. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

Modern dictionary for the legal profession / Gerry W. Beyer.
Buffalo, N.J. : William S. Hein & Co., 2008.
Ref Writing KF156 .B49 2008. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

Dictionary of legal terms : a simplified guide to the language of law / Steven H . Gifis.
Hauppauge, N.Y. : Barron's Educational Series, c2008.
Ref Writing KF156 .G53 2008. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

Nolo's plain-English law dictionary / by the editors of Nolo and Gerald N. Hill and Kathleen Thompson Hill.
Berkeley, CA : Nolo, 2009.
Ref Writing KF156 .N654 2009. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record
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Law -- United States -- Terminology.
Burton's legal thesaurus / William C. Burton.
New York : Macmillan Library Reference, c1998.
Ref Writing KF156 .B856 1998. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

A dictionary of modern legal usage / Bryan A. Garner.
New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
Ref Writing KF156 .G367 1995. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

Dictionary of American legal usage. TITLE = Mellinkoff's dictionary of American legal usage / by David Mellinkoff.
St Paul, MN : West Pub. Co., 1992.
Ref Writing KF156 .M45 1992. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record
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Law examinations -- United States -- Study guides.
Law school exams : preparing and writing to win / Charles R. Calleros.
Austin : Wolters Kluwer Law & Business/Aspen Publishers, c2007.
Ref Writing KF283 .C35 2007. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record
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Legal composition.
Plain English for lawyers / Richard C. Wydick.
Durham, NC : Carolina Academic Press, c1998.
Ref Writing KF250 .W9 1998. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

The elements of legal style / Bryan A. Garner.
New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.
Ref Writing KF250 .G37 1991. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

The lawyer's guide to writing well / Tom Goldstein, Jethro K. Lieberman.
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.
Ref Writing KF250 .G65 2002. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

Legal writing : form and function / Jane N. Richmond.
Notre Dame, Ind. : National Institute for Trial Advocacy, c2002.
Ref Writing KF250 .R53 2002. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

Legal writing in a nutshell / by Lynn Bahrych, Marjorie Dick Rombauer.
[St. Paul, MN] : Thomson/West, c2003.
Ref Writing KF250 .S68 2003. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

Advanced legal writing : theories and strategies in persuasive writing / Michael R. Smith.
New York : Aspen Law & Business, c2002.
Ref Writing KF250 .S62 2002. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

Thinking like a writer : a lawyer's guide to effective writing and editing / Stephen V. Armstrong, Timothy P. Terrell.
New York : Practising Law Institute, c2003.
Ref Writing KF250 .A76 2003. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

Writing for law practice / Elizabeth Fajans, Mary R. Falk, Helene S. Shapo.
New York, NY : Foundation Press, c2004.
Ref Writing KF250 .F36 2004. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

Guide to legal writing style / Terri LeClercq.
New York : Aspen Publishers, 2004.
Ref Writing KF250 .L3913 2004. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

Beyond the basics : a text for advanced legal writing / by Mary Barnard Ray and Barbara J. Cox.
St. Paul, MN : Thomson/West, c2003.
Ref Writing KF250 .R38 2003. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

Legal writing : a systematic approach / by Diana V. Pratt.
St. Paul, MN : Thomson West, c2004.
Ref Writing KF 250 .P73 2004. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

Academic legal writing : law review articles, student notes, and seminar papers / by Eugene Volokh, with foreword by Judge Alex Kozinski.
New York, NY : Foundation Press, 2003.
Ref Writing KF250 .V6 2003. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

Scholarly writing for law students : seminar papers, law review notes, and law review competition papers / by Elizabeth Fajans, Mary R. Falk.
St. Paul, Minn. : Thomson/West, c2005.
Ref Writing KF 250 .F35 2005. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

Just writing : grammar, punctuation, and style for the legal writer / Anne Enquist, Laurel Currie Oates.
New York : Aspen Publishers, 2005.
Ref Writing KF250 .E57 2005. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

Smith on persuasive legal writing : program handbook, February/March 2005 / Daniel U. Smith.
Oakland, Calif. : Continuing Education of the Bar, c2005.
Ref Writing KF250.Z9 S64 2005. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

Pleasing the court : writing ethical and effective briefs / Judith D. Fischer.
Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2005.
Ref Writing KF250 .F53 2005. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

Better legal writing : 15 topics for advanced legal writers / Wayne Schiess.
Buffalo, N.Y. : W.S. Hein, 2005.
Ref Writing KF250 .S347 2005. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

Academic legal writing : law review articles, student notes, seminar papers, and getting on law review / by Eugene Volokh ; with foreword by Alex Kozinski.
New York, N.Y. : Foundation Press ; 2005.
Ref Writing KF250 .V65 2005. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

The modern rules of style / Paul Marx.
Chicago, IL : ABA Publishing, c2007.
Ref Writing KF 250 .M39 2007. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

Clear and effective legal writing / Veda R. Charrow, Myra K. Erhardt, Robert P. Charrow.
New York : Aspen Publishers, c2007.
Ref Writing KF 250 .C45 2007. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

Synthesis : legal reading, reasoning, and writing / Deborah A. Schmedemann, Christina L. Kunz.
New York, NY : Aspen Publishers, c2007.
Ref Writing KF250 .S36 2007. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

Guide to legal writing style / Terri LeClercq.
New York, NY : Aspen Publishers, c2007.
Ref Writing KF250 .L46 2007. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

Legal drafting in a nutshell / by Thomas R. Haggard, George W. Kuney.
St. Paul, MN : Thomson/West, c2007.
Ref Writing KF250 .H343 2007. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

Effective lawyering : a checklist approach to legal writing and oral argument / Austen L. Parrish, Dennis T. Yokoyama.
Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2007.
Ref Writing KF250 .P37 2007. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

Writing and analysis in the law / Helene S. Shapo, Marilyn R. Walter, Elizabeth Fajans.
New York : Foundation Press, c2008.
Ref Writing KF250 .S5 2008. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

Hereof, thereof, and everywhereof : a contrarian guide to legal drafting / Howard Darmstadter.
Chicago, Ill. : ABA Section of Business Law, c2008.
Ref Writing KF250 .D37 2008. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

Garner on language and writing : selected essays and speeches of Bryan A. Garner / Bryan A. Garner.
Chicago : American Bar Association, c2008.
Ref Writing KF250 .G376 2008. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

Strategic legal writing / Donald Norman Zillman, Evan J. Roth.
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Ref Writing KF250 .Z55 2008. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

The lawyer's editing manual / Joan Ames Magat.
Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2009.
Ref Writing KF250 .M24 2009. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

A lawyer writes : a practical guide to legal analysis / Christine Coughlin, Joan Malmud, Sandy Patrick.
Durham, NC : Carolina Academic Press, 2008.
Ref Writing KF250 .C68 2008. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

Making law review : the expert's guide to mastering the write-on competition / Wes Henricksen.
Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2008.
Ref Writing KF250 .H46 2008. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

Aspen handbook for legal writers : a practical reference / Deborah E. Bouchoux.
New York : Aspen Publishers, c2009.
Ref Writing KF250 .B68 2009. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

Writing for lawyers / by Hollis T. Hurd.
Pittsburgh, PA (P.O. Box 3084, Pittsburgh 15230) : Journal Broadcasting & Communications, c2009.
Ref Writing KF250 .H87 2009. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

Legal writing : ethical and professional considerations / Melissa H. Weresh.
Newark, NJ : LexisNexis Matthew Bender, 2009.
Ref Writing KF250 .W438 2009. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record
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Legal research -- United States.
Pocket guide to legal research / William H. Putman.
Clifton Park, N.Y. : Thomson Delmar Learning, c2008.
Ref Writing KF240 .P886 2008. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record
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Medical care -- Dictionaries.
Health care terms / Vergil N. Slee, Debora A. Slee, H. Joachim Schmidt ; with a contribution on research by Julia Kelly.
St. Paul, MN : Tringa Press, c1996.
Ref Writing RA423 .S55 1996. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record
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Medicine -- Dictionaries.
Stedman's medical dictionary.
Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2006.
Ref Writing R121 .S8 2006. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

Black's medical dictionary / edited by Harvey Marcovitch.
Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2006.
Ref Writing R121 .B598 2006x. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record
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Proverbs.
Uncle Anthony's unabridged analogies : quotes and proverbs for lawyers and lecturers / [authored, edited and compiled by] Thomas J. Vesper.
[S.l.] : Thomson/West, c2008.
Ref Writing PN6404 .U53 2008. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record
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Quotations, English.
Familiar quotations. TITLE = Bartlett's familiar quotations : a collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature / John Bartlett ; Justin Kaplan, general editor.
Boston : Little, Brown, 2002.
Ref Writing PN6081 .B27 2002. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record

The Yale book of quotations / edited by Fred R. Shapiro ; foreword by Joseph Epstein.
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2006.
Ref Writing PN 6081 .Y35 2006. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record
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Spanish language -- Dictionaries -- English.
Oxford Spanish desk dictionary : Spanish-English, English-Spanish / chief editors, Carol Styles Carvajal, Jane Horwood.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Ref Writing PC4640 .O938 2003. Click here to view the Full Catalog Record
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