Ed GoodC. Edward Good is the developer of Lawmanac™. After serving as the Director of Legal Research and Writing at the University of Virginia School of Law, Ed started his own consulting business, conducting training programs in effective legal writing for law firms, corporations, and federal agencies across the United States.

More than 5000 attorneys have attended Ed's courses. The corporate legal departments at DuPont, PPG Industries, Caterpillar, Coca-Cola, Hershey Foods, GlaxoSmithKline, and others have invited Ed to give training programs to their attorneys and legal-support staff.

  • Ed wrote Mightier than the Sword -- Powerful Writing in the Legal Profession and A Grammar Book for You and I ... Oops, Me! (A Literary Guild Selection). The full text of Sword now appears in Lawmanac™.

  • William Safire, in the New York Times, called Oops Me "A good read for word mavens." New York Times, July 7, 2002.

  • Ed also wrote Citing & Typing the Law--A Guide to Legal Citation and Style. This work lies at the heart of the
    20-Lesson Training Program in Legal Citation and Style in Lawmanac™.

  • Ed currently serves as Counsel and Writer-in-Residence at the intellectual property firm of Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP, in Washington, D.C.
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