This guide will help you create checklists to help you improve your workflow, document your procedures, avoid malpractice and allow you to provide the best representation to your clients, so they remain your clients.

This book is for law students and practitioners who want to learn, or be reminded of, the fundamentals of legal writing and oral advocacy. Effective Lawyering concisely describes useful, yet often neglected, writing techniques. The book has pithy discussions of:(1) ways to avoid recurring, yet frequently overlooked, writing problems;(2) sensible approaches to writing common legal documents; and(3) methods for preparing an oral argument.In addition, it provides the reader with a series of checklists to turn to when undertaking a writing project or preparing for oral argument. The authors have designed the book for practicing attorneys as well as law students. The book is an ideal supplement for first-year and advanced legal writing courses, for upper-division skills courses, and for students participating in law journals or moot court programs. Short and to-the-point, the book's unique check-list approach will help law students and practitioners improve their writing methodically.

"Most everything we do as attorneys can be reduced to a checklist-a series of steps that if followed will allow you to achieve a given legal task-interview a client, prepare a pleading, or defend a deposition. To ensure we dot all our i's and cross all our t's, we as lawyers should take the time to list all the tasks we do and reduce each of those tasks to a series of steps that if followed will accomplish those tasks effectively and efficiently. Here you will find all my checklists, every last one, that I rely upon when representing my clients. I hope you find them helpful and that you take the time to modify them (and add to them) as you find necessary for your unique practice"--

This easy-to-use tool will assist the attorney in conducting their own self audits. Whether they want to streamline procedures, foster teamwork, or build client relations, this book dwill identify the practice's problem areas, as well as offer ideas to improve them.