If you read ten different legal briefs from ten different lawyers in California you will likely find ten different ways that they reference the material being cited in the briefs. But they can’t all be correct.
I wrote trial briefs for about ten years before I even heard of the California Style Manual, Fourth Edition, by Edward J.W. Jessen. This book provides the correct citation style to use when writing to a California court. Although it may not matter if you are writing to a trial court if you use the correct citation style, if you want a brief to be taken seriously in the appellate courts, this book is essential.
The California Style Manual contains a lot of useful information, too. Most lawyers know how to cite a case, but many do not know many of the stylistic rules that are preferred in California, like proper capitalization of the names of courts, how to address Judicial officers in a brief, how to deal with omissions when quoted material is being used, etc. This book provides the answers to these issues and many others.
Take your writing to a new professional level and get this book.
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