as a legal editor to refine his positions on legal usage and to add a wealth of new material. Here's how Garner's revision makes DMLU, Second Edition indispensable:br-- Updates every existing entry, making this a second edition in the fullest sense;br-- Adds hundreds of new entries;br-- Adds hundreds of new sections within existing entries;br-- Adds over 3,000 new illustrative quotations from judicial opinions and leading lawbooks by prominent legal commentators;br-- Reconsiders previously held positions, now saying, for example, that contractions are sometimes permissible in legal writing;br-- Fully elaborates ideas only mentioned in the first edition;br-- Takes into account numerous comments received from first edition users;br-- Expands and updates cross-references to guide readers quickly and easily.brInfluential writers and editors rely on DMLU daily. Charles Alan Wright, for example, says, I consult Garner regularly. He offers authoritative guidance on many matters of usage that are unique to legal writing....Garner is almost always pithy; he is often witty. Any lawyer, no matter how expert on words and language, is sure to learn from Garner's fine book. And the editors of Harvard Law Review have found it essential: In a work worthy of comparison to Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage, Mr. Garner...sets forth an authoritative guide to American legal usage and style. All legal writers will find it an invaluable help; many law review editors will find it a source of delight. Don't confront your editor without it.brFeatures:br-- Functions both as a style guide and as a law dictionarybr-- Guides writers to distinguish between true terms of law and mere jargonbr-- Illustrates reco@úáG®{ÿ¾Û€  (less)

any systematic way. The first comprehensive guide to style and usage for the legal writer, A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage provides accessible, authoritative, and up-to-date information that will enable lawyers, judges, students, scholars, and those who work in other fields concerned with legal language--such as journalism, medicine, business, and finance--to make their legal writing as clear and precise as possible by resolving questions of phraseology, diction, grammar, and style. The entries, arranged alphabetically, discuss distinctions among variant forms of legal terms, expose common pitfalls in legal writing, and include brief essays on such special topics as metaphors, sexism, cliches, initialese, misspellings, preferred spellings, Latinisms, grammar, and distinctions of meaning. In addition, the entries are highlighted with illustrations from such sources as judicial opinions, statutes, briefs, and law review articles. While the focus of the dictionary is on American usage, this is augmented by numerous examples of British usage where appropriate; moreover, Garner discusses legal words not to be found in other dictionaries.brModern Legal Usage is the ideal companion to standard law dictionaries and fills an important gap in the existing legal reference literature.brbrFEATURES of A DICTIONARY OF MODERN LEGAL USAGEbr* offers comprehensive coverage and alphabetically arranged entriesbr* contains over 6,000 headwordsbr* provides a guide to pronunciationbr* gives clear, concise definitionsbr* distinguishes between legal words that are closely relatedbr* discusses topics of interest to legal writersbr* lists preferred spellingsbr* includes brief essays on points of gramma@
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