Download This PaperEnglish as a Second Language - or Why Lawyers Can't Write
St. Thomas Law Review, Vol. 18, p. 53, 2005-2006
24 Pages Posted: 24 Oct 2007 Last revised: 21 Nov 2007
Abstract
I have spent thirty-five years reading the writing of law students, and much of it is bad. Students will take with them for tomorrow the skills they possess today, and those skills are poor. Why the ineptness, and can anything be done about it?
Keywords: education, legal
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Southerland, Harold P., English as a Second Language - or Why Lawyers Can't Write. St. Thomas Law Review, Vol. 18, p. 53, 2005-2006, FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 289, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1023482
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