Legal Writing : Getting It Right and Getting It Written

by Ray, Mary Barnard; Ramsfield, Jill J.

• ISBN13: 9780314238078
• ISBN10: 0314238077
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-03-01
• Publisher: West Group

Table of Contents

Abbreviations in Text	1	(1)
Abhorrence of or Abhorrence For?	1	(1)
Above	1	(1)
Abstract Nouns	1	(1)
Accuracy	2	(2)
Active Verbs (see Active Voice.)	4	(1)
Active Voice	4	(1)
Actually	5	(1)
Ad Hoc	6	(1)
Adjectives	6	(1)
Adjectives After a Linking Verb	6	(1)
Adverbs	7	(1)
Affect or Effect?	7	(1)
Aforesaid	7	(1)
African American or African-American?	8	(1)
Ages	8	(1)
Agreement, Subjects and Verbs	8	(1)
Agreements, Written (see Contracts, Drafting.)	9	(1)
Agree to or Agree With?	9	(1)
Alliteration	9	(1)
All Around or All Round?	10	(1)
All Ready or Already?	10	(1)
All Right or Alright?	10	(1)
All Round or All Around? (see All Around or All Round?)	10	(1)
All, Singular or Plural?	10	(1)
All Together or Altogether?	10	(1)
Already or All Ready? (see All Ready or Already?)	11	(1)
Alright or All Right? (see All Right or Alright?)	11	(1)
Alternative	11	(1)
Although or Though?	11	(1)
Altogether or All Together? (see All Together or Altogether?)	11	(1)
A.M.	12	(1)
Ambiguity, Ways to Avoid	12	(2)
Amendment Capitalized?	14	(1)
Among or Between?	15	(1)
Analogous Cases	15	(1)
Analysis (see Legal Analysis.)	15	(1)
And	15	(1)
And/Or	16	(1)
Animals, Are They He, She, or It?	16	(1)
Answers to Complants	16	(2)
Antecedents	18	(1)
Ante- or Anti-?	18	(1)
Anybody, Singular or Plural?	18	(1)
Anyone, Singular or Plural?	18	(1)
A or An?	18	(1)
Apostrophes	19	(1)
Appeal	20	(1)
Appellate Briefs	20	(2)
Appendix	22	(1)
Application	22	(1)
Appositive	23	(1)
Argument Headings (see Point Headings.)	24	(1)
Argument Section	24	(2)
Articles, Grammar	26	(1)
Articles, Published	26	(1)
As	27	(1)
As a Matter of Fact	27	(1)
As if or as Though?	27	(1)
As or Like?	27	(1)
As Per	28	(1)
Assonance	28	(1)
Assure or Ensure? (see Ensure, Insure, or Assure?)	28	(1)
Asterisks	29	(1)
As Though or as if? (see As if or as Though?)	29	(1)
As to	29	(1)
At the Time That	29	(1)
At This Point in Time	29	(1)
Attorney or Lawyer?	29	(1)
Audience	30	(3)
Auxiliary Verbs (see Verbs, Auxiliary)	33	(1)
Background Facts	34	(1)
Bad News, Giving it	34	(2)
Bad News, Softening it	36	(2)
Bad or Badly?	38	(1)
Bar Graphs (see Graphics, Which Forms to Use, subsection 2)	38	(1)
Based on	38	(1)
Basically	39	(1)
Because or Since?	39	(1)
Beginning	39	(1)
Bending the Rules	39	(1)
Between or Among? (see Among or Between?)	40	(1)
Between You and Me or Between You and I?	40	(1)
Bills, Writing Them (see Legislation or Requests Forpayment)	40	(1)
Black	40	(1)
Bluebook	41	(1)
Bluebook Table	41	(13)
Boldface Type	54	(1)
Both	55	(1)
Both...and	55	(1)
Brackets	55	(1)
Breaking the Rules (see Bending the Rules.)	56	(1)
Brief Answers	56	(1)
Briefs	57	(1)
Bullet Points	58	(1)
Business Letters (see General Correspondence Letters.)	59	(1)
But	59	(1)
Can	59	(1)
Can Hardly or Can't Hardly?	59	(1)
Cannot or Can Not?	60	(1)
Can or Could? (see Verbs, Auxiliary, Sections 2 and 4.)	60	(1)
Can or May?	60	(1)
Capitalization	60	(2)
Captions	62	(2)
Case	64	(1)
Case Briefs	64	(2)
Case Names	66	(1)
Casual Language (see Colloquialisms.)	66	(1)
Certain	66	(1)
Certainly (see Certain.)	67	(1)
Charts	67	(1)
Chronological Organization	67	(1)
Circumlocution (see Conciseness, subsection 3.)	67	(1)
Citations	67	(2)
Citations, Basic Formats	69	(2)
Citations, Parallel	71	(1)
Citations, String	71	(1)
Clarity	72	(1)
Clauses	72	(1)
Clearly	73	(1)
Clear Writing (see Readability and Clarity.)	73	(1)
Client Letters	73	(1)
Closings for Letters	73	(1)
Coherence	74	(1)
Collaboration	74	(3)
Collective Nouns	77	(1)
Colloquialisms	77	(1)
Colons	77	(2)
Combining Words	79	(1)
Commas	79	(4)
Common Noun (see Nouns.)	83	(1)
Common Sense	83	(1)
Compare to or Compare With?	83	(1)
Comparison	83	(1)
Complaint	84	(2)
Completely	86	(1)
Complex Sentences	86	(1)
Compound Sentences	87	(1)
Computers for Research	87	(2)
Computers for Writing	89	(1)
Conciseness	90	(2)
Conclusions	92	(1)
Conclusory	93	(1)
Concrete Nouns (see Abstract Nouns.)	94	(1)
Conform to, Conform with, or Conform in?	94	(1)
Conjunctions	94	(1)
Connecting Words (see Transitions.)	95	(1)
Connections, Making Them	95	(1)
Connectors (see Transitions and Connections, Making Them.)	96	(1)
Connotation	96	(1)
Contact	96	(1)
Contend	96	(1)
Context, Clarifying	96	(1)
Context-Independent Writing	97	(1)
Continual or Continuous?	98	(1)
Contractions	98	(1)
Contracts, Drafting	98	(1)
Contrast	99	(1)
Corporations, They or it?	99	(1)
Correlating Conjunctions (see Conjunctions and Readability, subsection 7.)	100	(1)
Correspond to or Correspond with?	100	(1)
Could	100	(1)
Could Care Less or Couldn't Care Less	100	(1)
Could or Can?	100	(1)
Counterarguments, How to Handle	100	(1)
Courts, How to Address	101	(1)
Courts, They or it?	102	(1)
Credibility	102	(1)
Dangling Modifiers (see Modifiers, Dangling.)	103	(1)
Dashes	103	(1)
Data	104	(1)
Deadlines, Meeting Them	104	(4)
Deem	108	(1)
Definitely	108	(1)
Definitions, When to Include	108	(1)
Demand for Payment (see Requests for Payment.)	108	(1)
Dependent Clauses	108	(1)
Design	109	(1)
Desperation (see Help; Getting Started; Deadlines, Meeting Them; When to Stop; or Writing Blocks.)	110	(1)
Dicta	110	(1)
Dictation	111	(1)
Diction	112	(1)
Different From or Different Than?	112	(1)
Digression	112	(1)
Direct Objects (see Sentence, Parts of, subsection 4.)	113	(1)
Discussion Section	113	(1)
Disinterested or Uninterested?	113	(1)
Do	114	(1)
Drafting	114	(1)
Drafts	114	(1)
Due to	114	(1)
Dunning Letters (see Requests for Payment.)	115	(1)
During the Time That	115	(1)
Each	115	(1)
Editing	115	(3)
Editing Quotes	118	(1)
Effect or Affect? (see Affect or Effect?)	118	(1)
E.G. (see Signals.)	118	(1)
Elegant Variation	118	(1)
Ellipses	119	(1)
Emotional Facts	119	(1)
Emotional Language	119	(1)
Emphasis	119	(3)
Emphasis Added (see Quotations, How to Punctuate, subsection 6.)	122	(1)
End Result	122	(1)
English as a Second Language	122	(1)
Ensure, Insure, or Assure?	123	(1)
Enumeration	124	(1)
Equity	124	(1)
Etc.	124	(1)
Everybody	125	(1)
Everyone	125	(1)
Evidence	125	(1)
Ex-	125	(1)
Exactness (see Word Choice, subsection 2.)	125	(1)
Exclamation	125	(1)
Exclamation Point	125	(1)
Explanations, When and How Much?	126	(1)
Explanatory Phrases	126	(1)
Expository Writing	127	(2)
Extended Quotes	129	(1)
Fact of the Matter, the	129	(1)
Facts	129	(1)
Fact That, the	129	(1)
Farther or Further?	130	(1)
Feel	130	(1)
Fewer or Less?	130	(1)
Figurative Meaning	131	(1)
Find	131	(1)
Flowery Language	131	(1)
Focus	131	(1)
Footnotes	132	(1)
For	133	(1)
Forceful Writing (see Emphasis and Positions of Emphasis	133	(1)
Format	133	(1)
Form Books, Use of	133	(1)
Form Contracts, Use of	134	(1)
Former	134	(1)
For the Period of	135	(1)
Further or Farther? (see Farther or Further?)	135	(1)
Future Perfect Tense (see Verbs, Tenses, subsection 9.)	135	(1)
Future Progressive Tense (see Verbs, Tenses, subsection 8.)	135	(1)
Future Tenses (see Verbs, Tenses, subsection 7.)	135	(1)
Gender-Free Prose (see Sexist Language, Ways to Avoid.)	135	(1)
General Correspondence Letters	135	(8)
Generally	143	(1)
Gerunds	143	(1)
Getting Orgaized	144	(1)
Getting Started	144	(1)
Ghost Writing	145	(1)
Good or Well?	146	(1)
Grammar	147	(1)
Graphics, How to Use	147	(5)
Graphics, When to Use	152	(2)
Graphics, Which Form to Use	154	(7)
Habits, Writing	161	(1)
Hanged or Hung?	162	(1)
Hardly	162	(1)
Headings	162	(1)
Headnotes	162	(1)
Help	163	(1)
Helping verbs (see Verbs, Tenses.)	163	(1)
He or She?	163	(1)
He/She, When to Use?	163	(1)
Hold	164	(1)
Holdings	164	(1)
Hopefully	165	(1)
However	165	(1)
Humor	166	(1)
Hung or Hanged (see Hanged or Hung?)	166	(1)
Hyperbole	166	(1)
Hyphens	166	(1)
I	167	(1)
Idiom	168	(1)
I.E.	168	(1)
If	168	(1)
If and When	169	(1)
If or When?	169	(1)
Impact	169	(1)
Imperative Mood (see Verbs, Moods, subsection 3.)	169	(1)
Imply or Infer?	170	(1)
In Advance of	170	(1)
Including, But Not Limited to	170	(1)
Indented Quotes or Quotation Marks?	170	(1)
Indenting (see Quotations, How to Punctuate.)	170	(1)
Independent Clause (see Clauses or Sentence, Parts of, subsection 8.)	170	(1)
Indicative Mood (see Verbs, Moods, subsection 1.)	170	(1)
Indirect Objects (see Sentence, Parts of, subsection 5.)	171	(1)
Infer or Imply? (see imply or Infer?.)	171	(1)
Infinitive Verbs (see Verbs, Tenses, subsection 13.)	171	(1)
Informal Language (see Colloquialisms.)	171	(1)
-Ing Words (see Gerunds.)	171	(1)
In, Into, or in to?	171	(1)
Initials	171	(1)
In Order to or to?	172	(1)
In Question	172	(1)
Inserted Phrases (see Intrusive Phrases.)	172	(1)
Instructions to the Jury (see Jury Instructions.)	172	(1)
Insure or Ensure? (see Ensure, Insure, or Assure?)	172	(1)
Interjections	172	(1)
In Terms of	173	(1)
Intrusive Phrases	173	(1)
Inverted Order (see Sentence Structure subsection 4	174	(1)
Irregardless or Regardless?	174	(1)
Issue Statements	174	(3)
It	177	(1)
Italics	177	(1)
It is Said That, It Would Seem That, It, Might be said That	177	(1)
It is That	177	(1)
It or They?	177	(1)
Its or It's?	178	(1)
Jargon	178	(1)
Judges, How to Address	178	(1)
Judgment	178	(1)
Judicial or Judicious?	179	(1)
Jump Cites (see Pinpoint Cites)	179	(1)
Jury Instructions	179	(3)
Jury, Plural or Singular?	182	(1)
Key Terms	182	(1)
Large-Scale Organization (see Organization, Large-Scale.)	182	(1)
Latin Phrases	182	(1)
Latter (see Former.)	183	(1)
Law Review Articles (see Articles, Published and Scholarly Writing.)	183	(1)
Lawyer or Attorney? (see Attorney or Lawyer?)	183	(1)
Lay or Lie?	183	(1)
Legal Analysis	184	(4)
Legalese	188	(1)
Legally Significant Facts	188	(1)
Legal Writing Checklist	189	(1)
Legislation	190	(1)
Lengthy Quotes (see Extended Quotes.)	191	(1)
Less or Fewer? (see Fewer or Less?)	191	(1)
Letters	191	(1)
Lie or Lay? (see Lay or Lie?)	192	(1)
Like or As? (see As or Like?)	192	(1)
Linking Verbs (see Verbs, Linking.)	192	(1)
Lists, Structure of	192	(4)
Lists, When to Use	196	(1)
Literal Language	197	(1)
Literally	197	(1)
Literal Meaning	197	(1)
Logical Links	197	(1)
Long Quotes (see Extended Quotes.)	198	(1)
Looseleafs (see Updating The Law.)	198	(1)
Lucidity (see Accuracy and Readability.)	198	(1)
-Ly or Not?	198	(1)
Main Sentences (see Topic Sentences)	198	(2)
Managing Writers	200	(1)
Maroon Book	200	(1)
Matter of Fact, As A (see As a Matter of Fact.)	201	(1)
May	201	(1)
May or Can? (see Can or May?)	201	(1)
Meaning of Words	201	(1)
Memorandum or Points and Authorities	201	(1)
Memos	202	(2)
Merely	204	(1)
Might	204	(1)
Misspellings, How to Avoid	204	(1)
Models, Use of (see Forms, Use Of.)	205	(1)
Modifiers	205	(1)
Modifiers, Dangling	206	(1)
Modifiers, Misplaced	206	(1)
Modifiers, Squinting	206	(1)
Moods	207	(1)
Most Importantly	207	(1)
Motions	208	(1)
MS. Mrs., or Miss?	208	(1)
Must	208	(1)
Must or Should?	208	(1)
Names or Generic Description?	208	(1)
Narrative Writing	209	(1)
Negatives	210	(1)
Neither	211	(1)
Nobody	211	(1)
Nominalization	211	(1)
None, Singular or Plural?	212	(1)
No One	212	(1)
Non or Non-?	212	(1)
Nonrestrictive Phrases	212	(1)
Nor	213	(1)
Not	213	(1)
Notes	213	(1)
Notice of Motion	214	(1)
Not Only...But Also	215	(1)
Not So Much...As	216	(1)
Nouns	216	(1)
Noun String	217	(1)
Numbers (see Numerals.)	218	(1)
Numerals	218	(1)
Object (see Sentence, Parts of, subsection 3, 4, and 5.)	219	(1)
Objective Writing	219	(2)
Objectivity	221	(1)
Object of a Preposition (see Prepositions and Sentence, Parts of, subsection 6.)	221	(1)
Oblivious of or Oblivious To?	221	(1)
Obviously	221	(1)
Of Course	222	(1)
Ok, O.K., or Okay?	222	(1)
Omitting Words From Quotes	222	(1)
One	222	(1)
One-Sentence Paragraphs	222	(1)
Only Where to Place	222	(1)
On the Condition That or with the Condition That?	223	(1)
Openings for Letters	224	(1)
Opinion Letters	224	(3)
Opinion or Advice?	227	(1)
Opinions, Reading Them	227	(1)
Optimal or Optimum?	228	(1)
Or	228	(1)
Oral or Verbal?	229	(1)
Oral Presentations	229	(2)
Orders	231	(1)
Organization	232	(2)
Organization for Those Who Can't Outline	234	(2)
Organization, it or They? (see Corporations, They or it?)	236	(1)
Organization, Lagre-Scale	236	(1)
Organization, Small-Scale	237	(1)
Ornate Language (see Flowerly Language)	238	(1)
Otherwise	238	(1)
Outlines	238	(2)
Overdone (see Flowerly Language, Modifiers, and Emotional Language)	240	(1)
Overrefinement	240	(1)
Padding	241	(1)
Paragraph Blocks	241	(1)
Paragraph Length	241	(1)
Paragraphs	242	(1)
Parallel Citations (see Citations, Parallel)	243	(1)
Parallelism (see Parallel Structure; Lists, Structure or; and Emphasis.)	243	(1)
Parallel Structure	243	(2)
Paraphrase	245	(1)
Parentheses	246	(1)
Parentheticals	247	(1)
Participles (see Verbs, Tenses.)	248	(1)
Parts of a Sentence (see Sentence, Parts of.)	248	(1)
Parts of Speech	248	(1)
Passive Verbs (see Passive Voice and Active Voice.)	248	(1)
Passive Voice	248	(2)
Past Participles	250	(1)
Past Perfect Tense (see Verbs, Tenses.)	250	(1)
Past Progressive Tense (see Verbs, Tenses.)	250	(1)
Past Tense (see Verbs, Tenses.)	250	(1)
People or Persons?	250	(1)
Per	250	(1)
Percent or Percent?	251	(1)
Perfectionism	251	(1)
Perfect Tenses (see Verbs, Tenses.)	251	(1)
Period or Question Mark? (see Question Marks.)	251	(1)
Periods	251	(1)
Person: First, Second, or Third?	252	(1)
Personal References	253	(1)
Persons or People? (see People or Persons?)	253	(1)
Persuasive Letters	254	(1)
Persuasive Writing	255	(6)
Phenomena or Phenomenons?	261	(1)
Phrases	261	(1)
Pie Charts (see Graphics, Which Form to use, subsection 1.)	262	(1)
Pinpoint Cites	262	(1)
Plagiarism	262	(1)
Plain English	263	(1)
Plain Meaning	263	(1)
Pleadings	263	(1)
Plurals of Names	264	(1)
P.M.	265	(1)
Point Headings	265	(1)
Point of View, Objective or Persuasive?	266	(1)
Policy	267	(1)
Polishing	267	(1)
Polishing Process Checklist	268	(1)
Positions of Emphasis	268	(1)
Possessives	269	(1)
Precision	270	(2)
Predicate (see Sentence, Parts of.)	272	(1)
Prefixes, When to Hyphenate (see Hyphens.)	272	(1)
Prepositional Phrases	272	(1)
Preposition, Ending a Sentence With	273	(1)
Prepositions	273	(1)
Present Participles (see Verbs, Tenses, subsections 2 and 3	274	(1)
Present Perfect Tense (see Verbs, Tenses, subsection 3.)	274	(1)
Present Progressive Tense (see Verbs, Tenses, subsection 2.)	274	(1)
Present Tense (see Verbs, Tenses, subsections 1-3.)	274	(1)
Pretrial Briefs	274	(1)
Previous to	275	(1)
Prewriting	275	(1)
Prewriting Process Checklist	276	(1)
Principles of Good Legal Writing	277	(5)
Prior to	282	(1)
Procedural or Substantive?	282	(1)
Process and Product Compared	283	(1)
Procrastination	283	(1)
Professional Posture	284	(1)
Progressive Tenses (see Verbs, Tenses.)	285	(1)
Pronoun Reference (see Ambiguity, subsection 2.)	285	(1)
Pronouns	285	(1)
Proofreading (see Polishing and Polishing Process-Checklist.)	286	(1)
Proper Nouns	286	(1)
Provided That	287	(1)
Punctuating Lists (see Lists, Structure of.)	287	(1)
Punctuation	287	(1)
Purpose	287	(1)
Quality as a Modifier	288	(1)
Question Mark or Period?	288	(1)
Question Marks	289	(1)
Question Presented	289	(1)
Quotation Marks	290	(1)
Quotation Marks in Legislation (see Legislation.)	290	(1)
Quotation Marks or Indented Quotes?	290	(1)
Quotations, How to Punctuate	291	(6)
Quotations, Long (see Extended Quotes.)	297	(1)
Quotations, When to Use	297	(1)
Quote within a Quote (see Quotations, How to Punctuate, subsection 5)	297	(1)
Rambling	297	(1)
Re	298	(1)
Readability	298	(3)
Reader (see Audience.)	301	(1)
Reading	301	(1)
Reading Opinions (see Opinions.)	302	(1)
Really	302	(1)
Reasoning	302	(3)
Recommendations	305	(1)
Record, Citing to It	305	(1)
Recur or Reoccur?	306	(1)
Redundancy (see Conciseness. For related information, see Repetition.)	306	(1)
References (see Citations; Footnotes; and Record, Citing to It.)	306	(1)
Referents (see Antecedents.)	306	(1)
Regardless or Irregardless?	306	(1)
Rejection Letters (see Bad News, Softening It and Bad News, Giving It, subsection 1.)	306	(1)
Reoccur or Recur? (see Recur or Reoccur?)	306	(1)
Repetition	306	(1)
Repetition of Sounds (see Alliteration and Assonance.)	307	(1)
Requests for Payment	307	(1)
Research as Writing	308	(2)
Research Process Checklist	310	(1)
Research Strategy Chart	311	(3)
Respondent	314	(1)
Restrictive Phrases (see That or Which?)	315	(1)
Revising	315	(1)
Revising Process Checklist	315	(2)
Revising the Writing of Others (see Editing and Managing Writers.)	317	(1)
Rewriting	317	(1)
Rewriting Process Checklist	318	(1)
Rhetorical Questions	319	(1)
Rhymes	319	(1)
Rough Drafts (see Writing and Writing Process.)	319	(1)
Rules	319	(2)
Said	321	(1)
Salutations	321	(1)
Sarcasm	322	(1)
Saying No	322	(1)
Scarcely	323	(1)
Scholarly Writing	323	(3)
Scholarly Writing Checklist	326	(2)
Scholarly Writing Process	328	(3)
Section	331	(1)
Self-or Self?	332	(1)
Semicolons	332	(1)
Sentence Fragments	333	(1)
Sentence Length	334	(1)
Sentence, Parts of	335	(4)
Sentences, Main (see Topic Sentences.)	339	(1)
Sentence Structure	339	(5)
Sentences with and (see Sentence Structure, subsection 2 and Lists, Structure of.)	344	(1)
Settlements Letters	344	(1)
Sexist Language, Ways to Avoid	345	(1)
Shall	346	(1)
S/HE	347	(1)
Shepard's	347	(1)
Short Sentences	348	(1)
Should	348	(1)
SIC	349	(1)
Signals	350	(1)
Simple Sentence	351	(1)
Simplicity	352	(1)
Since or Because? (see Because or Since.)	352	(1)
Single Quotation Marks	352	(1)
Singular or Plural?	352	(1)
Slang	353	(1)
Slanted Language (see Emotional Language.)	353	(1)
Slash	354	(1)
Smoothness (see Coherence, Emphasis, and Readability.)	354	(1)
So	354	(1)
Somebody	354	(1)
Someday or Some Day?	355	(1)
Someone	355	(1)
Sometime or Some Time?	355	(1)
So What?	355	(1)
Specificity (see Precision.)	355	(1)
Spelling Problems (see Misspellings, How to Avoid.)	356	(1)
Split Infinitives	356	(1)
Squinting Modifiers	356	(1)
Standard of Review	357	(1)
Statement of Facts	358	(1)
Statement of the Case	359	(1)
Statistics	360	(1)
Statute Drafting (see Legislation.)	360	(1)
String Cites (see Citations, String.)	360	(1)
Structure (see Sentence Structure or Organization, Large-Scale.)	360	(1)
Stuffy Language (see Plain English, Flowery Language, and Tone.)	360	(1)
Style	361	(1)
Subheadings (see Point Headings and Headings.)	362	(1)
Subject (see Sentence, Parts of, subsection 2.)	362	(1)
Subject-Verb Agreement	362	(1)
Subject-Verb Combinations	362	(1)
Subjunctive Tenses (see Moods.)	363	(1)
Subordinating Conjunctions (see Conjunctions and Subordination.)	363	(1)
Subordination	363	(1)
Substantive or Procedural? (see Procedural or Substantive?)	363	(1)
Such	363	(1)
Summary of the Argument	364	(1)
Support	364	(1)
Syllogisms	365	(2)
Tables (see Graphics, Which form to Use, subsection 5.)	367	(1)
Tact (see Bad News, Softening it; Tone; and Tone in Letters.)	367	(1)
Taking Notes (see Notes.)	367	(1)
Tenses (see Verbs, Tenses.)	367	(1)
Terms of Address for Courts (see Judges, How to Address.)	367	(1)
Terms of Art	367	(1)
That Needed?	368	(1)
That or Which?	369	(1)
The	370	(1)
Theirs or Their's?	370	(1)
There is or There Are?	370	(1)
There Is...That	371	(1)
They or He or She?	371	(1)
This	371	(1)
Though or Although?	372	(1)
Time Management	372	(2)
Titles of Judges (see Judges, How to Address.)	374	(1)
To All Intents and Purposes	374	(1)
To Be	375	(1)
Tone	376	(3)
Tone in Letters	379	(2)
Topical Organization	381	(1)
Topic Sentences	381	(1)
Totally (see Completely.)	382	(1)
Tough, Sounding That Way	382	(1)
Transitions	383	(1)
Trial Briefs	384	(1)
Unclear Meaning	385	(1)
Underlining	385	(1)
Understandability (see Clarity and Readability.)	386	(1)
Undoubtedly	386	(1)
Uninterested or Disinterested? (see Disinterested or Uninterested?)	386	(1)
Unique	386	(1)
Unity (see Coherence.)	386	(1)
Unless	387	(1)
Unobtrusive Definitions	387	(1)
Until Such Time as	388	(1)
Unto	388	(1)
Updating the Law	388	(1)
Utilize	389	(1)
Utterly	389	(1)
Vague Words (see Ambiguity, Ways to Avoid; Precision; and Word Choice.)	389	(1)
Variety	389	(1)
Verbal or Oral? (see Oral or Verbal?)	390	(1)
Verbosity (see Conciseness.)	390	(1)
Verbs	390	(2)
Verbs, Auxiliary	392	(2)
Verbs, Irregular	394	(1)
Verbs, Linking	395	(1)
Verbs, Moods	395	(2)
Verbs, Participles	397	(1)
Verbs, Tenses	397	(4)
Verb Tenses, Different Ones in the Same Text	401	(1)
Versatility	402	(1)
Very	402	(1)
Virgule (see Slash.)	402	(1)
Virtually	402	(1)
Viz	403	(1)
Voice	403	(1)
Voice, Active or Passive?	403	(2)
Was or Were?	405	(1)
We	405	(1)
Well or Good? (see Good or Well?)	405	(1)
When am I Done? (see When to Stop.)	405	(1)
When of If	405	(1)
When or Where?	406	(1)
When to Stop	406	(1)
Where or When? (see When or Where?)	407	(1)
Whether	408	(1)
Which or That? (see That or Which?)	408	(1)
Whoever or Whomever?	408	(1)
Who or Whom?	409	(1)
Wills, Drafting	409	(2)
Woman, Lady, or Female?	411	(1)
Word Choice	411	(2)
Wordiness (see Conciseness.)	413	(1)
Wordy Phrases	413	(1)
Would	413	(1)
Writer's Block (see Writing Block.)	414	(1)
Writing	414	(1)
Writing Block	414	(1)
Writing on the Word Processor (see Computers for Writing.)	415	(1)
Writing Process	416	(1)
Writing to Other Attorneys	417	(1)
Yet	418	(1)
You	419