Your Client's Story Persuasive Legal Writing

Name: Your Client's Story Persuasive Legal Writing
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ISBN: 9781454805489

ISBN-10: 145480548X

ISBN-13: 9781454805489

Edition: 2013

Authors: Ruth Anne Robbins, Steve Johansen, Ken Chestek

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Book details

List price: $82.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Kluwer Law International
Publication date: 12/3/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



Summary of Contents


Prologue



Introduction to storytelling and client-centered lawyering



Meeting the client



Understanding primary concepts of persuasion



Story as a tool for persuasion



Developing Your Client's Story



Thinking about the audience



Story creating: investigating the facts



Getting started & organizing the legal research



Character development



Plot and conflict in your client's story



Creating the working draft



Shadow stories and working drafts of the facts section



Interpreting statutes



Creating policy arguments



Managing adverse material: counterarguments



Writing and organizing the argument section



Revising, polishing and finishing



From working draft to persuasive argument: finding your client's point of view in the legal argument



Revising the story



Writing the Preliminary Statement



The full contents of a brief



Readability of legal writing documents: tone and branding by visual design



Oral argument



Oral argument



Plaintiff's brief in opposition to motion for reconsideration



Defendant's Motion for Reconsideration



Plaintiff's Brief in Support of Plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgment and in Opposition to Defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment



Defendant's Brief in Opposition to Plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgment and in Support of Defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment