| The Legal Writing Institute presented
its sixth Golden Pen Award on January 6, 2006, at the annual meeting
of the AALS in Washington, D.C. This year's winner was Joseph Williams.
The language on the plaque, presented by LWI President Terry Seligmann,
read as follows:
The Legal Writing Institute presents its sixth Golden Pen Award
to Joseph M. Williams. His classic book, Style: Ten Lessons
in Clarity and Grace, now in its seventh edition, has strongly
influenced a generation of professional writers. And it has just
as strongly influenced and informed the professors who teach the
next generation of lawyers. For all the lessons that he has taught
us, we thank him with this award.
Joe Williams's longtime friend and colleague George Gopen introduced
Joe with some comments about his principles for clear writing and
his extraordinary influence in the field. During his remarks, Joe
briefly demonstrated how the principles he advocates might--or might
not--apply to the Declaration of Independence.
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