Legal Writing in Plain English

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book legal writing guide

Legal Writing in Plain English is a widely used guidebook by Bryan A. Garner that teaches lawyers and law students how to write clear, concise, and effective legal prose.

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Label	Occurrences
Legal Writing in Plain English canonical	2

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1660676 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

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Target entity: Legal Writing in Plain English
Context triple: [Bryan A. Garner, notableWork, Legal Writing in Plain English]

A. A Great and Good Law School
A Great and Good Law School is the guiding motto of the University of Virginia School of Law, reflecting its aspiration to combine academic excellence with a strong commitment to ethical and public service values.
B. Practical Law
Practical Law is an online legal know-how service that provides expert-authored practice notes, standard documents, checklists, and tools to help lawyers work more efficiently.
C. The Paradoxes of Legal Science
The Paradoxes of Legal Science is a 1928 jurisprudential treatise by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo that explores the philosophical tensions and logical contradictions within legal reasoning and doctrine.
D. Lawyers’ Edition
Lawyers’ Edition is a commercially published reporter series that provides annotated decisions of the United States Supreme Court, offering editorial enhancements and research aids beyond the official United States Reports.
E. The American Lawyer
The American Lawyer is a leading U.S. legal industry magazine and news outlet known for its in-depth coverage, rankings, and analysis of major law firms and the business of law.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Legal Writing in Plain English
Target entity description: Legal Writing in Plain English is a widely used guidebook by Bryan A. Garner that teaches lawyers and law students how to write clear, concise, and effective legal prose.

A. A Great and Good Law School
A Great and Good Law School is the guiding motto of the University of Virginia School of Law, reflecting its aspiration to combine academic excellence with a strong commitment to ethical and public service values.
B. Practical Law
Practical Law is an online legal know-how service that provides expert-authored practice notes, standard documents, checklists, and tools to help lawyers work more efficiently.
C. The Paradoxes of Legal Science
The Paradoxes of Legal Science is a 1928 jurisprudential treatise by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo that explores the philosophical tensions and logical contradictions within legal reasoning and doctrine.
D. Lawyers’ Edition
Lawyers’ Edition is a commercially published reporter series that provides annotated decisions of the United States Supreme Court, offering editorial enhancements and research aids beyond the official United States Reports.
E. The American Lawyer
The American Lawyer is a leading U.S. legal industry magazine and news outlet known for its in-depth coverage, rankings, and analysis of major law firms and the business of law.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (44)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	book ⓘ legal writing guide ⓘ
aimsTo	improve legal writing skills ⓘ promote plain language in law ⓘ reduce legalese ⓘ
associatedWith	United States legal education ⓘ
author	Bryan Garner ⓘ surface form: Bryan A. Garner
contains	examples of bad legal writing ⓘ examples of good legal writing ⓘ exercises for legal writers ⓘ
emphasizes	avoiding unnecessary jargon ⓘ effective editing and revision ⓘ strong organization in legal documents ⓘ using concrete language ⓘ writing for non-specialist readers ⓘ
focusesOn	clarity in legal documents ⓘ editing legal documents ⓘ organization of legal writing ⓘ plain English style ⓘ
genre	legal writing ⓘ nonfiction ⓘ
hasAuthorNationality	American ⓘ
hasAuthorOccupation	legal lexicographer ⓘ legal writing expert ⓘ
hasReputation	widely used guidebook on legal writing ⓘ
intendedAudience	law students ⓘ lawyers ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
promotes	plain-language drafting of briefs ⓘ plain-language drafting of contracts ⓘ reader-focused legal writing ⓘ
relatedTo	Black's Law Dictionary ⓘ The Elements of Legal Style ⓘ
subject	legal drafting ⓘ legal style ⓘ legal writing ⓘ plain language ⓘ
teaches	clear legal prose ⓘ concise legal prose ⓘ effective legal prose ⓘ
usedAs	law school textbook ⓘ
usedBy	judicial clerks ⓘ legal writing professors ⓘ practicing attorneys ⓘ

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Bryan Garner → notableWork → Legal Writing in Plain English ⓘ

subject surface form: Bryan A. Garner

Bryan Garner → authorOf → Legal Writing in Plain English ⓘ