Ed Good's Bio

Ed Good serves as the Writer-in-Residence at the world's largest law firm practicing intellectual- property law—Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, L.L.P., in Washington, D.C.

He's a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law and served as director of legal writing there from 1975 to 1980.

From 1980 to 1993, Ed traveled throughout the country, giving seminars in effective writing to more than 5,000 people at corporations, federal agencies, and law firms. In 1993, he joined Finnegan Henderson.

Ed is the author of A Grammar Book for You and I, Oops, Me! This new work is a Literary Guild selection and has been picked up by the Book-of-the-Month Club and the Quality Paperbacks Book Club. In July 2002, William Safire reviewed Oops Me in The New York Times, touting it as "a good read for word mavens."

In 2003, Ed developed Lawmanac—Clickable Help for Legal Writers, featured at LegalWriting.com.

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Since the late 1970s, Ed Good has provided on-site training programs throughout the world:

• Philips Electronics. In November 2005, Ed presented a one-week program to professionals at the company's office in Shanghai, China. Philips then invited Ed back to present a one-week advanced course in Shanghai in May 2006. In November 2006, Ed presented a two-day program to engineers and technical people at the company's headquarters in Holland.

• DuPont. Ed presented a two-day course for technical writers and IP professionals in 1999. After the course, a vice-president wrote a review of the Oops Me book, saying:

  "Clarity of expression is essential in our business. Ed Good's book—especially in combination with the course he presented at DuPont—provides powerful tools to help our technical writers explain complex scientific concepts in understandable prose."

• Caterpillar. Ed presented a two-day course for paraprofessionals in September 2001. A senior IP counsel wrote a review of Oops Me:

  "We stress the importance of straightforward, concise, grammatically correct writing. This entertaining book will help us write about complicated subjects in a way our readers can easily comprehend."

• Other Fortune 500 Companies. Westinghouse, GlaxoSmithKline, PPG Industries, Pratt & Whitney, Hershey Foods, General Electric, Coca-Cola, Kraft Foods, and others.

• Federal Agencies. The IRS commissioned Mr. Good to develop and conduct a series of courses in persuasive writing for more than 1,500 litigators nationwide.

  Other federal agencies sponsoring the course include SEC, FTC, CFTC, MSPB, DOJ Tax, DOJ Antitrust, Navy JAG, Air Force JAG, Army JAG, Department of Veteran Affairs, and scores of others.