Legal writers create extensive documentation such as legal brochures, newsletters, and marketing materials. Law students have to write articles, web content, and legal blogs. And those who work in the legal profession may also need to write news reports and attorney profiles.
All these documents have various structures and formats. If you have English editing services at your disposal, you can rest assured that all your documents will be impeccable.
Legal editing is required for all sorts of documents such as press releases, newsletters, leaflets, brochures, profiles, presentations, business letters, analytical reports, white papers, and academic materials.
All these documents have various structures and formats. If you have English editing services at your disposal, you can rest assured that all your documents will be impeccable.
Legal editing is required for all sorts of documents such as press releases, newsletters, leaflets, brochures, profiles, presentations, business letters, analytical reports, white papers, and academic materials.
Legal Writing Skills
Not just legal writers but also legal analysts and editors need to have a complete comprehensive grasp of the stylistic and mechanical aspects of writing. This includes everything from the fundamentals of English grammar to proper sentence structuring. It is imperative to be able to express ideas in an organized, concise, clear, and logical manner. But deadlines also need to be met. In-depth knowledge of the legal industry is absolutely necessary.
A good legal editor, upon receiving a document, focuses on a few related things at the same time. He starts with substantive or macro edits. This includes points such as -
• Do the points emerge quickly?
• How consistent are the arguments?
• Is the tone appropriate?
The second legal editing point involves line-editing. The editor makes a few changes in this stage and each of the areas in the document are duly focused on. He will have a detailed look at the headings and check if they are consistent, check if there are stronger verbs that can replace often repeated words and ask whether the sentences can be cut by 25%.Lastly, punctuation errors along with formatting problems are dealt with. This tightens and polishes the document to enable readers to understand the entire discussion. There should be no missing words and awkward phrasings.
Unlike academic editing services, legal editing requires a specific combination of skills and specialist knowledge along with an acute attention to detail. At HKNETS, the editors understand that there is no room for errors to exist in legal documentation. The experts ensure that any ambiguity, inconsistency or lack of precision is eliminated.
