Used Book in Good ConditionProduct DescriptionWydick's Plain English for Lawyers--now in its fifth edition--has been a favorite of law students legal writing teachers lawyers and judges for over 25 years.
In January 2005 the Legal Writing Institute gave Wydick its Golden Pen Award for having written Plain English for Lawyers. The Legal Writing Institute is a non-profit organization that provides a forum for discussion and scholarship about legal writing analysis and research. The Institute has over 1300 members representing all of the ABA-accredited law schools in the United States. Its membership also includes law teachers from other nations English teachers and practicing lawyers.
The LWI award states: 'Plain English for Lawyers . . . has become a classic. Perhaps no single work has done more to improve the writing of lawyers and law students and to promote the modern trend toward a clear plain style of legal writing.'
In 2003 Wydick retired after 32 years on the law faculty of the University of California Davis. But he still teaches his favorite course -- a seminar in advanced legal writing for third-year law students. For the past eight summers he has also lectured at the International Legislative Drafting Institute presented in New Orleans by the Public Law Center?? a joint venture of Tulane and Loyola law schools. There the audience consists of lawyers and non-lawyers from abroad who earn their living drafting legislation in many different languages. 'Teaching at the I