Essentials Of Drafting

BASIC LEGAL DRAFTING offers down-to-earth instruction on how to draft well-organized and clearly articulated legal documents. A culmination of twenty-five years of teaching in the highly regarded Legal Drafting Program at the University of Florida College of Law, the book is designed to be used as a resource for law students and practicing attorneys, as well as a textbook for drafting classes. The text is particularly strong in its discussions of how to organize a document, often the most difficult task facing a drafter and typically under-addressed in other drafting manuals. Equally useful are the very concrete recommendations on how to articulate the language of a document in order to achieve clarity and precision. The text helpfully distinguishes traditional drafting principles from common conventions and stylistic preferences. The litigation chapter addresses complaints, answers and motions. Useful examples range from a simple negligence complaint to a complex statutory-based multi-count complaint and appropriate responses. The contracts chapter includes an extensive discussion, with examples, on how to create for any contract a logical, coherent framework that underlines the drafter's (and presumably the client's) intentions. The chapter addresses in detail the articulation of particular provisions, including definitions, termination and exculpatory provisions. Its comprehensive discussion of how to recognize and avoid various types of ambiguity will prove useful beyond the contract drafting context. The legislation chapter identifies common legislative protocols and applies, within those protocols, many of the organization and articulation principles set out in the contracts chapter. While the text uses litigation documents, contracts and legislation as the bases for its discussions, Basic Legal Drafting offers practical, realistic advice and instructions that will be useful to the drafter of any type of legal document.

The second edition includes improved drafting and grading directions, as well as directions for use with CAD software. These new steps simplify the process from the first edition.

Uses a step-by-step problem-solving format to introduce students who are not drafting majors to drafting theory, tools, and techniques, covering orthographic renderings as well as oblique, isometric, and development drawings.

This book gives the practitioner a detailed treatment of the principles and applications of effective legal drafting. New material on drafting strategy, "verbal sexism", and the use of computers for word processing of legal documents is included in the work.

This book has been written for the student who is taking drafting either to satisfy a curriculum requirement or as an elective, but who is not a drafting major. This student usually wishes to gain a basic working knowledge of drafting fundamentals so that he can apply it to other courses, but he is often hindered in obtaining this knowledge by a combination of limited class time and large class enrollments. To make it easier for the student to learn from this text, the material is presented using a step-by-step problem-solving format accompanied by many illustrations. This written portion of the text may be described as a "how to" approach. The idea is to present not only drafting theory, but also the procedures and conventions used to apply the theory. This will enable the student to work directly from the text to the board while doing his class and homework drawings. The scope of the material presented has been limited to those subjects most often needed to prepare technical drawings, with heavy emphasis on orthographic views and dimensioning. Fasteners, oblique, isometric and development drawings are also covered. Although limited in scope, the material is presented in depth.

Using a residential design scenario that increases in scope from chapter to chapter and results in a complete set of working drawings, Drafting and Design: Basics for Interior Design teaches the art of drafting through hands-on application. Introducing essential drafting tools, equipment, and methods, the book is designed to help interior designers develop an understanding of space planning and leverage manual drafting skills to design usable and livable space.

Accompanying DVD includes videos of the author working with student writers.