Strategic legal writing
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Strategic legal writing
Cambridge University Press, 2008
- : paperback
- : hardback
Available at / 5 libraries
-
No Libraries matched.
- Remove all filters.
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Many legal writing texts emphasize how one writes; this book is unique because it also focuses on why one writes. Every chapter challenges the reader to write to achieve a strategic objective. Each assignment has been carefully considered by the authors, and fully vetted to simulate the decision-making involved in the preparation of important legal writing, whether in a general counsel's office, a law office, a government attorney's office, or a judge's chambers. Simply put, the authors' approach is that effective legal writing does not exist in a vacuum. This book provides practical assignments that teach the student that the best legal writing is not an end in itself, but a means to a larger strategic objective.
Table of Contents
- 1. Prayer at the athletic banquet
- 2. How to draft a complaint
- 3. Terminating Professor Melton
- 4. How to draft a motion
- 5. Mr Blaustein's gift
- 6. How to respond to a motion
- 7. Counseling Dean Covelli
- 8. How to draft a judicial opinion
- 9. Advising Professor Melton
- 10. How to draft a motion for summary judgment.
by "Nielsen BookData"