Burton's Legal Thesaurus, Fourth Edition (Burton's Legal Thesaurus) | 
| Author: William C. Burton
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 219156
Media: Paperback
Edition: 4
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Pages: 1040
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5.2
Dimensions (in): 10 x 8.1 x 1.6
ISBN: 0071472622
Dewey Decimal Number: 349.73014
EAN: 9780071472623
ASIN: 0071472622
Publication Date: December 11, 2006
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BURTON'S IS GUILTY...OF BEING THE BEST LEGAL THESAURUS ON THE MARKET!
8,000 legal terms, synonyms, definitions, and parts of speech - now fully updated and revised "Prepared by lawyers, comprehensive, up-to-date, easy to use."
-American Bar Association Journal After twenty-five years as the standard-bearer of legal terminology, Burton's Legal Thesaurus continues to be an essential reference tool. In law, precision and accuracy is vital. This fourth edition contains more entries than ever before, including cutting-edge terms unique to today's legal profession. This new edition is an indispensable reference source for: - Partners, Associates, Attorneys and judges, who will appreciate the timeliness of the 1,000-plus new entries
- Law school students seeking to use a more specific word or recall a word forgotten
- Journalists and scholars looking for the right word to fit the thought
PRAISE FOR PREVIOUS EDITIONS "A tool to strengthen the lawyer's vocabulary and improve the precision of legal writing."
-Maryland Bar Journal "Given the popularity of plain language laws, the Legal Thesaurus could be just the book to own."
-United States Law Week "The legal profession should find this volume valuable in using the exact word to convey the meaning intended."
-New York State Bar Journal "It is through the use of such a tool as the Legal Thesaurus that one may find the precise term to fit the nuances of a particular situation."
-William O. Douglas Justice, U.S. Supreme Court, 1939-1975
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 Useful book September 16, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
Important book. The "Roget's" of the legal profession. May 7, 2007
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).
Very Helpful Product September 26, 2005
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is the legal thesaurus that all my law professors suggested. So far it has been very helpful in research and writing.
Relied on daily at work May 17, 2003
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
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.
Indispensable Tool for Your Legal Writing Kit June 17, 2000
"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 again. And again. And again. But I was missing something. I was missing that "oomph" that propels a reader when reading legal material. And I didn't know what to do. I decided to take a "creative" break down at the local (bookstore). Of course, I immediately gravitated to the law section of the store and, before you could say "double espresso, please," I had found it! Burton's Legal Thesaurus. I opened the pages and my heart fluttered. Over 5,000 entries, legal synonyms for any legal term that came to mind, definitions, an overview of federal "plain language" requirements, associated legal concepts, and the list goes on! I wiped away a tear. I rushed back to my hotel room and my fingers began flying over the laptop. My abstracts sang with power and precision! I could feel the reader compelled - nay, helpless - to turn the page! Burton's Legal Thesaurus had saved the day! I was now a jurisprudence scholar! Eh, not really. But it really helped out when I didn't have access to my usual materials. However, one thing of which I can assure you, I'll be using this thesaurus for the rest of my career. If you've ever tried to write a legal document with a conventional thesaurus, you've probably felt the same way I did - close, but not close enough. But where do I find "close enough"? Read some more cases? Subscribe to a half dozen law journals? Hang out with the professors? This book definitely dispenses with that problem. You'll find everything you need to write a work filled with persuasion and vigor contained within its pages. If you're not that creative with legal lingo (as I, obviously, am not), you need to order it now. Frankly, you're putting yourself at a serious disadvantage if you don't.
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