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Legal reasoning and legal writing
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"This is an introductory text on legal writing and reasoning"--
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- Creator
- Richard K. Neumann, Professor of Law, Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University; Ellie Margolis, Professor of Law, Temple University Beasley School of Law; Kathryn M. Stanchi, E.L. Cord Professor of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law
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- English
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- Ninth edition
- New York : Wolters Kluwer, [2021]
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- xxvii, 432 pages ; 26 cm
- ISBNs
- 1543810853, 9781543810851, 9781543831191, 9781543831191
- OCLC
- on1226073865
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Legal writing and law -- Rule-based reasoning -- Issues, facts, precedents, and statutes -- Predictive writing -- Inside the writing process -- More about writing -- Selecting authority -- Working with statutes -- Working with precedent -- Working with facts -- A paradigm for organizing proof of a conclusion of law -- Varying the depth of rule proof and rule application -- Combining proofs of separate conclusions of law -- Working with the paradigm -- Interviewing the client -- Office memoranda -- Email communication -- Oral presentations to your supervising lawyer -- Client advice letters -- Paragraphing -- Effective style -- Quotations -- Introduction to motions and appeals -- Developing a persuasive theory of the case -- Telling your client's story in a statement of the case (or facts) -- Developing persuasive arguments -- Handling the procedural posture -- Motion memoranda -- Appellate practice -- Point headings and subheadings -- Questions presented -- Oral argument