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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 340
EAN: 9781599414249
ISBN: 1599414244
Label: Foundation Press
Manufacturer: Foundation Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 634
Publication Date: March 14, 2008
Publisher: Foundation Press
Sales Rank: 78453
Studio: Foundation Press
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Product Description:
A standard-setter in American legal education, Writing and Analysis in the Law provides a guide to legal writing, focusing on the importance of clear organization in written and oral communications. Developed as a textbook for a first-year law school course, the book introduces law students to the principles of research, including analyzing legal authority in cases and statues. It discusses the structure and persuasive techniques of effective appellate argument, both in briefs and in oral presentation, and makes extensive use of illustrative examples and writing exercises, on topics such as memorandums, trial briefs, and oral presentations. Lucid, compact, and up-to-date, this work consistently draws acclaim in law schools across the country. Highlights of the fourth edition include new chapters on interviewing a client, counseling a client, and analyzing questions of law.
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Rating:  - Great refresher and reference
After reading the other reviews, I felt it was necessary to add my thoughts to the list. I found out about this book a few months ago while talking to a rising 1L about his legal writing course. As a looked through it, I realized that the format of this book would be a great tool for me to edit my writing samples for prospective employers. Most of the advice in this book about techniques and strategy is great, at least for the way I learn. I made an outline of some of the chapters for myself, ... Read More
Rating: - Good book for Legal Drafting
This is a good writing instruction for 1L J.D.. In my school, it is used as textbook.
Rating:  - Ineffective and Wordy
Shapo covers all the technical elements of writing a legal memo and brief, and offers appendices with helpful samples of each. The intro/first chapter gives a very nice introduction to the structure of the US Court system, which I found very helpful as a first-year (1L) law student.
But it's all downhill from there. Shapo tries to describe how to construct the different parts of legal memos and briefs, but the given examples are sparse and often imperfect.
This book would ... Read More
Rating:  - Choose a different book
It's okay but most of the chapters are useless, unless you start reading it before you start law school. It's very elementary and the things I was really hoping for help on, it just didn't get me very far. The most useful part is it does have examples of well-written memos and briefs in the back of it and they were helpful but there's only a few.
Rating:  - Required text
Decent book, fairly basic but gets all the points across. Not confusing like case books. Typical LARC
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Dewey Decimal Number: 340
EAN: 9781599414249
ISBN: 1599414244
Label: Foundation Press
Manufacturer: Foundation Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 634
Publication Date: March 14, 2008
Publisher: Foundation Press
Sales Rank: 78453
Studio: Foundation Press