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| Writing and Professional Work | |
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| Legal Rules and Their Sources | |
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| Inside a Rule of Law | |
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| More about Rules | |
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| Inside a Statute and Outlining One | |
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| Inside a Judicial Opinion ("a Case") | |
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| Reading a Case for Issues, Rules, and Determinative Facts | |
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| Policy and Why Courts Care about It | |
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| Selecting the Most Appropriate Cases, Statues, and Other Authority | |
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| Working with Cases | |
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| Working with Statutes | |
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| The Process of Writing | |
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| Getting to Know Yourself as a Writer | |
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| Inside the Process of Writing | |
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| How Professional Writers Plan Their Writing | |
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| Office Memoranda | |
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| Office Memoranda Format | |
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| Predictive Writing in an Office Memorandum | |
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| Organizing Analysis | |
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| CREAC: A Formula for Structuring Proof of a Conclusion of Law | |
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| Varying the Sequence and Depth of Rule Explanation and Rule Application | |
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| Advanced CREAC: Organizing More Than One Issue | |
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| Working with CREAC in First Drafts and in Later Drafts | |
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| Working Effectively with Details | |
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| Paragraphing | |
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| Writing an Effective Sentence | |
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| Effective Style: Clarity, Vividness, and Conciseness | |
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| Citing Authority | |
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| Quoting Effectively | |
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| Informal Analytical Writing | |
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| Client Advice Letters | |
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| Email Memoranda | |
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| The Shift to Persuasion | |
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| What Persuades a Court? | |
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| Writing a Motion Memorandum | |
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| Telling the Client's Story | |
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| The Statement of the Case in a Motion Memo or Appellate Brief | |
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| Developing a Persuasive Story | |
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| Telling the Story Persuasively | |
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| Making the Client's Arguments | |
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| The Argument in a Motion Memo or Appellate Brief | |
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| Point Headings and Subheadings | |
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| Appellate Briefs and Oral Argument | |
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| Appellate Practice | |
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| Writing the Appellate Brief | |
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| Handling Standards of Review | |
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| Making Policy Arguments | |
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| Questions Presented | |
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| Oral Argument | |
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| Sample Office Memorandum | |
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| Sample Client Advice Letter | |
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| Sample Motion Memorandum | |
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| Sample Appellant's Brief | |
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| Sample Appellee's Brief | |
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| Punctuation Issues | |
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| Troublesome Words | |
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| Document Design | |
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| Index | |