Legal Reasoning and Legal Writing Structure, Strategy, and Style, Sixth Edition

Name: Legal Reasoning and Legal Writing Structure, Strategy, and Style, Sixth Edition
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ISBN: 9780735576667

ISBN-10: 0735576661

ISBN-13: 9780735576667

Edition: 6th (Revised)

Authors: Richard K. Neumann

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The Sixth Edition of this respected and popular text remains grounded in the premise that legal reasoning and legal writing are best learned when they are taught together. Building on that foundation, Neumann continues to offer complete, clear, and timely coverage of how to form a legal argument and how to write an effective legal memorandum. Streamlined in its Sixth Edition, Legal Reasoning and Legal Writing features : comprehensive coverage of legal writing: the office memo the motion memo the appellate brief eminently readable text, including an exceptionally lucid explanation of the reasoning behind the proof of a conclusion of law a thoughtful treatment of all aspects of legal…

Book details

List price: $95.00
Edition: 6th
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business
Publication date: 3/30/2009
Binding: Paperback
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.332
Language: English




Introduction To Law and Its Study



An Introduction to American Law



Rule-Based Reasoning



An Introduction to Judicial Decisions and Statutes



Briefing Cases



Introduction to Legal Writing



The Art of Legal Writing



The Process of Writing



Office Memoranda



Office Memoranda



Initially Obtaining the Facts: Client Interviewing



Predictive Writing



Organizing Proof of a Conclusion of Law



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



General Analytical Skills



Selecting Authority



Working with Precedent



Working with Statutes



Working with Facts



General Writing Skills



Paragraphing



Effective Style



Citations and Quotations



Letters and Exam Answers



Client Advice Letters



Demand Letters



How to Write Exam Answers



The Shift to Persuasion



Developing a Persuasive Theory



Developing Persuasive Arguments



Handling the Procedural Posture



Motion Memoranda



Point Headings and Sub-Headings



Statements of the Case



Questions Presented



Appellate Briefs



Appellate Practice



Appellate Briefs



Writing the Appellate Brief



Into the Courtroom



Oral Argument


Appendices



Basic Legal Usage



Nine Punctuation Issues



Sample Office Memorandum



Sample Client Advice Letter



Sample Demand Letter



Sample Motion Memorandum



Sample Appellant's Brief



Sample Appellee's Brief


Index