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Vocabulary for Legal Professionals

Recommended Online Resources

Recommended Print Resources

  • Garner, B. A., & Black, H. C. (2019). Black’s law dictionary (11th ed.). Thomson Reuters. (electronic resource)
  • Gubby, H. (2013). Practical legal English: Legal terminology (2nd ed.). Eleven International Publishing. (electronic resource)
  • Gubby, H. (2016). English legal terminology: Legal concepts in language (4th ed.). Eleven International Publishing. (electronic resource)
  • Nolfi, E. A. (2009). Legal terminology explained. McGraw Hill. (KF156 N65 2009)
  • Osborn, P. G., Woodley, M. G., & Bainbridge, J. (2013). Osborn’s concise law dictionary (12th ed.). Thomson Reuters, trading as Sweet & Maxwell. (electronic resource)
  • Reinhart, S. M. (2007). Strategies for legal case reading and vocabulary development. University of Michigan Press. (KF280 .R45 2007)
  • Wojcik, M. E. (2001). Introduction to legal English: An introduction to legal terminology, reasoning, and writing in plain English (2nd ed.). International Law Institute. (KF250 .W65 2001)
  • Wojcik, M. E. (2009). Introduction to legal English: An introduction to legal terminology, reasoning, and writing for lawyers, law students, and business professionals who speak English as a second language (3rd ed.). International Law Institute. (KF250 .W65 2009)
  • Wyatt, R. (2006). Check Your English vocabulary for law (3rd ed.). A. & C. Black. (KD313 .W93 2006)

Inspirations

  • “Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.”

    Mark Twain

  • “I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”

    Winston Churchill

  • “The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.”

    Mortimer Adler

  • “Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will.”

    Vernon Howard

  • “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”

    Benjamin Franklin

  • “Be observing constantly. Stay open minded. Be eager to learn and improve.”

    John Wooden

  • “Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.”

    Abigail Adams

  • “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”

    Henry Ford