ब्रायन गार्नर (जन्म 17 नवंबर, 1958) एक अमेरिकी वकील, व्याकरणविद् और कोशकार हैं। वह न्यायशास्त्र (और कभी-कभी गोल्फ) पर भी लिखता है। वह 25 से अधिक पुस्तकों के लेखक हैं, जिनमें से सबसे प्रसिद्ध हैं गार्नर का आधुनिक अंग्रेजी उपयोग (चौथा संस्करण। 2016) और रीडिंग लॉ: द इंटरप्रिटेशन ऑफ लीगल टेक्स्ट्स (2012-न्यायमूर्ति एंटोनिन स्कैलिया के साथ सह-लेखक), साथ ही साथ चार अनब्रिज्ड ब्लैक्स लॉ डिक्शनरी के संस्करण। वह दक्षिणी मेथोडिस्ट विश्वविद्यालय में विधि के विशिष्ट अनुसंधान प्रोफेसर के रूप में कार्य करते हैं। वह समय-समय पर यूनिवर्सिटी ऑफ टेक्सास स्कूल ऑफ लॉ, टेक्सास ए एंड एम स्कूल ऑफ लॉ और टेक्सास टेक स्कूल ऑफ लॉ में भी पढ़ाते हैं।
2009 में, उन्हें कांग्रेस के पुस्तकालय में एक बर्टन पुरस्कार समारोह में दशक का कानूनी-लेखन और संदर्भ-पुस्तक लेखक नामित किया गया था। उन्हें बेंजामिन फ्रैंकलिन बुक अवार्ड, स्क्रिब्स बुक अवार्ड, बर्नी सीगन अवार्ड और सेंटर फॉर प्लेन लैंग्वेज से लाइफटाइम अचीवमेंट अवार्ड सहित कई अन्य पुरस्कार मिले हैं।
उनके काम ने आधुनिक न्याय, वकालत, व्याकरण, अंग्रेजी उपयोग, कानूनी शब्दावली, और मिसाल की सामान्य कानून प्रणाली की हमारी समझ में केंद्रीय भूमिका निभाई है। उनकी पुस्तकों को संयुक्त राज्य अमेरिका के सर्वोच्च न्यायालय सहित सभी स्तरों की अमेरिकी अदालतों द्वारा अक्सर उद्धृत किया जाता है।
The Winning Brief: 100 Tips for Persuasive Briefing in Trial and Appellate Courts पीडीएफ ब्रायन गार्नर
It its first two editions The Winning Brief explained the art of effective writing in 100 concise, practical, and easy-to-use tips, proving that the key to writing well is to understand the judicial readership. This third edition of Bryan A. Garner's modern classic delivers the same invaluable guidelines with even more supporting evidence. Covering everything from the rules for planning and organizing a brief to openers that can capture a judge's attention from the
first few words, these tips add up to the most compelling, orderly, and visually appealing brief that an advocate can present.
In Garner's view, good writing is good thinking put to paper. "Never write a sentence that you couldn't easily speak," he warns - and demonstrates how to do just that. Every tip begins with a set of quotable quotes from experts, followed by Garner's masterly advice on building sound paragraphs, drafting crisp sentences, choosing the best words ("Strike pursuant to from your vocabulary."), quoting authority, citing sources, and designing a document that looks as impressive as it reads.
Throughout, Garner shows how to edit for maximal impact, using vivid before-and-after examples that apply the basics of rhetoric to persuasive writing.
In this much-expanded third edition, Garner has perfected the text with nine new tips, hundreds of new examples, and amplified explanations throughout-all in his trademark style. Among the new sections are tips on understanding judges' reading habits, answering opponents' arguments, writing effective reply briefs, using authorities persuasively, and organizing arguments based on statutes and contracts. Quotable quotes, which Garner carefully assembled after years of wide reading and close
study, have been expanded and improved throughout the book. There is also a new appendix on a remarkable brief that some consider the best ever written ("a beautiful marriage of rhetorical skill, thorough research, and humane lawyering").
Perhaps the biggest change to this edition is that every tip now ends with a summary checklist that recaps and crystalizes the subpoints just covered, with further ideas for improvement. Garner conceived these checklists in part as a way to help readers approach his book as a set of 100 tutorials. Reviewing and practicing each tip will offer brief-writers a degree of mastery that more cavalier colleagues will find difficult to equal.
An invaluable resource for attorneys, law clerks, judges, paralegals, law students and their teachers, The Winning Brief has the qualities that make all of Garner's books so popular: authority, accessibility, and page after page of techniques that work. If you're writing to win a case, this book shouldn't merely be on your shelf-it should be open on your desk.