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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 349.73014
EAN: 9780028649863
Edition: 3
ISBN: 0028649869
Label: MacMillan Reference Books
Manufacturer: MacMillan Reference Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 1120
Publication Date: 1998-09
Publisher: MacMillan Reference Books
Studio: MacMillan Reference Books

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
The "Lawyer's Roget"--described by the "American Bar Association Journal" as "comprehensive, up-to-date, easy to use"--is now available in an updated, enhanced, and augmented third edition.




Rating: - Useful book
The book is very useful. However, the Latin phrases are probably no longer necessary in the U.S. legal practice.

I've noticed one error that is carried over from one edition to the next: in Index under the entry "in error" look for word "fallacioadmit." I speculate that a portion of text disappeared and fallacious was merged with admit. The words that follow admit do not appear to belong in the "in error" article.

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Rating: - Important book. The "Roget's" of the legal profession.
This book, now in its fourth edition, is an essential companion to Black's Law Dictionary, Garner's Legal Usage book, and other essential legal reference books. Great for law students, lawyers, judges, paralegals/legal assistants, and just about anyone else dealing with legal language. This book gives alternatives to stilted, overused, and misused, language. Worth the price (especially if one compare it on a site like Nextag, Shopzilla, and others).

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Rating: - Very Helpful Product
This is the legal thesaurus that all my law professors suggested. So far it has been very helpful in research and writing.

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Rating: - Relied on daily at work
Next to case law, I find Burton's Legal Thesaurus indispensible in writing appellate briefs. I only wish it were available in a downloadable form for use with my word processing program.

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Rating: - Indispensable Tool for Your Legal Writing Kit
"Good luck," my employer wished as he handed me a plane ticket and a tome of a background packet. I was leaving on a critical six-week business trip to an alien state in the midwest. No problem - except that five days prior the law review had accepted me as one of three evening division 2Ls for candidacy and my first case abstracts were due in twenty days. Hmmm . . .

From my hotel room, I scanned, identified, analyzed, condensed, reviewed, and rewrote the abstracts. Then did it ... Read More

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