The Redbook: A Manual on Legal Style

by Bryan A. Garner

Since the first edition was published in 2002, The Redbook has established itself as the most authoritative, comprehensive, and easily usable manual of legal style. Written by Bryan A. Garner, with contributions from all six lawyers at LawProse Inc., The Redbook covers everything that mere citation manuals don't and can't: punctuation, capitalization, grammar, prose style, and clarity in general. The copious examples of model documents are unlike any others: gleaned from thousands of potential candidates, they are the best available exemplars for business letters, motions, briefs, contracts, statutes, and even judicial opinions. For this wholly revised third edition, Garner and his team have also added five new chapters on e-mails, statutes, research papers, law-review articles, and book reviews. The Redbook an eminently usable reference book. Written in the style of a restatement, the black-letter rules are followed by exhaustive comments and illustrations.

Genres: Law, Writing, Legal, Reference, Nonfiction

656 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

Reviews

[Katy · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you're a law student and don't have this, you're stupid. If you're writing for law review and don't have this, you're just wasting time. Everyone else, move on, there's nothing for you here.

[William · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book's strong points are (1) Clarity and (2) Usefulness.

Often books in this genre are marginally useful. This book is the exception. It is an essential reference for both students, and practitioners.

[Kersten · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice reference book to have.

[Mr. Phil · Rating 5 out of 5]

the spirals make it easy to keep your page.

[Benton Martin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read "Elements of Legal Style" instead.

[Susan Murphy]

The mandatory book for a law library!