Writing for Lawyers
Hollis T. Hurd is a practicing lawyer in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Haverford College, where he was a Classics major, and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he served as Vice Chairman of the Moot Court Board. Formerly a partner with Reed Smith Shaw & McClay and Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue in Pittsburgh, in 1991 he established THE BENEFITS DEPARTMENT®, a boutique law firm with practice limited to employee benefits, including benefits litigation. His experience includes five victories in the United States Supreme Court in ERISA cases, and he has been listed continuously in the book The Best Lawyers in America since 1993.  Mr. Hurd has lectured extensively nationwide for bar associations, private law firms, and paralegal associations on the subject of legal writing. Writing for Lawyers became a bestseller more than twice over before going out of print in 1996.  By popular demand, it was restored to publication in 2009 on Amazon.com.