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Legal writing : process, analysis, and organization
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- Creator
- Linda H. Edwards
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Fifth edition
- New York, NY : Aspen Publishers, [2010]
- ©2010
- Physical Details
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- xxvii, 461 pages : 26 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780735585140, 0735585148
- OCLC
- ocn495996909
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- First things first -- Outlining a rule of law -- Outlining a rule to organize your analysis of a legal issue -- Formulating a rule from a case opinion -- Formulating a rule from multiple authorities -- Using a rule to form the structure: special circumstances -- Writing the analysis of a single issue: rule explanation -- Writing the analysis of a single issue: rule application -- Writing the analysis of a single issue: organizing and writing the discussion of multiple authorities -- Writing the analysis of 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 letters -- Ethics, judges, and briefs -- Formulating and structuring a favorable rule -- Drafting working headings -- Writing the working draft -- The argument and the format of the brief -- The statement of facts -- Editing the brief -- Oral argument