• Informed by the author's decades at one of the nation's foremost law firms, Sentence, Paragraph, Argument, Brief offers a unified and highly practical approach to brief-writing.
• The book organizes itself around a single theme: that good briefs rely as much on good word, sentence, paragraph, and argument sequence as on word choice and content.
• To advance that theme, the book presents concrete tips for drafting any brief and illustrates them all with a wealth of examples from filed briefs.
• The book explains how to construct every brief's building blocks ? the sentence and the paragraph ? more simply than other books and with more attention to the real-world drafting challenges, large and small, litigators face every day.
• Also in contrast with other books in this field, this book devotes as much attention to how to organize arguments as it devotes to how to draft and edit the more smaller, more basic units of composition. The book's coverage is not only comprehensive but in many respects original.
• Many of its topics ? e.g., classifying paragraphs, repositioning words to enhance persuasion, organizing background statements, drafting tables of contents and argument headers, improving professional diction, enhancing paragraph flow ? receive no or only minimal treatment in other legal writing texts.
• For all these reasons, the book should appear on the syllabus of every serious legal writing course and on the shelf of every brief-writer or editor who wants to improve her skill.

David N. Greenwald has devoted over three decades to writing and editing briefs and to teaching those skills to practicing lawyers. After clerking for Judge Richard A. Posner, he began his career in 1994 at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, the nation's second oldest law firm. A few years later, he joined the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and served there as a federal prosecutor for three and a half years. He then returned to Cravath in 2000, where he became a partner in the Litigation Department. In addition to teaching legal writing at Cravath, he has been invited to teach legal writing at other law firms throughout the United States. He currently serves as the 'Respectfully Submitted' columnist for the ABA Litigation Journal.

Greenwald graduated in 1990 from Harvard College (summa cum laude) and in 1993 from the University of Chicago Law School (high honors). As a law student, he won the Bustin Prize for the best Law Review comment.