Legal writing : process, analysis, and organization / Linda H. Edwards, E. L. Cord Foundation Professor of Law, Emerita William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Samantha A. Moppett, Professor of Legal Writing Associate Director, Legal Practice Skills Suffolk University Law School.
First things first -- Outlining rules -- Using rules to organize your analysis -- Finding a rule in a statute -- Finding a rule in a case -- Finding a rule from multiple authorities -- Analyzing a single issue : rule explanation -- Analyzing a single issue : rule application -- Analyzing a single issue : using multiple authorities -- Analyzing multiple issues -- The office memo and the law-trained reader -- Organizing for your reader : the discussion section -- Completing the draft of the office memo -- Citations and quotations -- Revising for usage and style -- Writing professional correspondence -- Ethics, judges, and briefs -- Structuring the argument : first steps -- Finding and structuring a more favorable rule -- Writing the working draft : first steps -- Refining the arguments : the standard of review and the question presented -- Organizing for your reader : the argument section -- Completing the draft of the brief -- Editing the brief -- Oral argument.
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"Coursebook for Legal Writing students"-- Provided by publisher.
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