The Solicitor General's Style Guide: Third Edition

by U.S. Department of Justice, Jack Metzler (Editor)

Completely updated in 2018! Now in its third edition, The Solicitor General's Style Guide contains the manual used by the Office of the Solicitor General in preparing briefs to be filed in the Supreme Court. It contains three separate guides: Office of the Solicitor General Citation Manual, Office of the Solicitor General Supplement to the Supreme Court Rules, and Office of the Solicitor General Writing Preferences. Supreme Court Justice Scalia and legal writing guru Bryan Garner have extolled the Solicitor General's briefs as models for other lawyers to follow. Now the citation and style secrets behind those briefs are available to lawyers and fans of the Solicitor General and the Supreme Court. The Third Edition contains new information or preferences for 38 rules, new examples for 25 rules, and 14 never-before-seen rules.

153 pages, Paperback

First published November 14, 2013

Reviews

[B · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's a little hard to use because it feels like 160 slight variations on an existing rule set without any sort of coherent theme.

But the editor did a good job of reproducing it.