Title: For the grammar-phile, not the everyday lawyer.
Product review: This book is intensely and heavily focused on sentence-level English; grammar and punctuation receive the most attention. No one can question that, because lawyers are professional writers, we ought to understand English at the sentence level. But this book offers so much detail that it is difficult to get through. Most lawyers can learn to write correctly and effectively without understanding grammar at the level of an English Ph.D.Plus, practical advice for preparing legal documents is sparse. There is nothing on citation, use of authority, legal analysis, or document format. And the book is not a lively, entertaining read. I found it slow-going at times.
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