Happily, the Bureau's excellent Style Manual achieves all these goals - balancing the need to provide enough information about references so that readers can follow a line of argument to its legal sources with the need to keep the writing as clear and uncluttered as possible. This technical language of "legal citation," which is absolutely essential to legal writing, would be impossible to master without a widely accepted guide that promotes consistency, conciseness and precision. No judge writing an opinion or lawyer drafting a brief can do so properly without citing to pertinent legal authorities - statutes, regulations, prior court decisions, and treatises and secondary materials - to support their conclusions and arguments. Hooks and his excellent staff not only publish the Official Reports, the permanent record of the decisions and proceedings of the New York State courts, but also publish and maintain the Official Style Manual, which has long served as the authoritative reference work on legal citation for the New York courts and the lawyers who practice before them.
Hooks, for inviting me to submit this Foreword to the newly revised 2017 Official Style Manual of the New York State Law Reporting Bureau. I want to thank our State Reporter, William J.
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