Legal Method and Writing is a sophisticated yet accessible book that takes a comprehensive and practical approach to writing and analysis skills. The book's coverage includes different types of legal writing, including writing in law school, writing in the law office, advocacy writing, appellate brief, pretrial advocacy, and writing to parties.

An ideal text for a second semester legal writing or advanced writing course, the Legal Method and Writing II, Eighth Edition immerses students in the world of appellate briefs, pleadings, motions, contracts, and professional correspondence. This revision expands coverage of motions to dismiss, while maintaining in-depth coverage of complaints, answers, motions for summary judgment, and motions in limine to exclude evidence. Numerous illustrations, sample documents, and exercises address issues ranging from enforcement of marriage contracts to sexual harassment in the workplace. Key Features: Introductory chapters on fundamentals of written advocacy, including ethical concerns, strategic considerations, organization, writing style, issue statements, point headings, and effective presentation of rules and fact analysis In-depth discussion of trial briefs: pleadings, motion to dismiss, motion for summary judgment, judgment, and motion in limine to exclude evidence, with numerous illustrations and sample documents Comprehensive discussion of appellate briefs and appellate standards of review, with sample briefs and special attention to policy arguments Introduction to contract drafting The addition of “soft skills” (e.g. rapport building) Chapters on advice and demand letters Examples and illustrations throughout the text Numerous exercises and assignments in the main text and in the appendices

Legal Method and Writing, Ninth Edition

By incorporating broad topical coverage, case analysis, study skills, and appellate briefs, Legal Method and Writing has proven its effectiveness to loyal users nationwide. Some of the many strengths of this exceptionally clear and complete text: after a comprehensive introduction to legal analysis, the book addresses different types of legal writing Writing in Law School, Writing in the Law Office, Advocacy, Appellate Briefs, Pretrial Advocacy, and Writing to Parties connects legal analysis to the writing process and shows parallels between the analytic structure of office memoranda and that of a law student's case briefs, course outlines, and essay examination answers goes beyond the typical memo and brief to explain how to write pleadings, motions, contracts, and letters the documents lawyers will write in practice excellent examples are often drawn from Contracts and Torts to make the material accessible to first-year students illustrations, exercises, and assignments present diversity in ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation practical exercises in the text give students an opportunity to sharpen their skills, and additional exercises appear in the appendices Changes make the Fourth Edition a stronger teaching and learning tool: new material on the ALWD manual and the 17th edition of the Bluebook in the citation chapter completely updated, with new examples, illustrations, and supporting citations, including exercises based on the author's popular teaching demonstrations carefully edited to control length and increase efficiency

Language skills, study skills, argument skills and legal knowledge are vital to every law student, professional lawyer and academic. Legal Method, Skills and Reasoning suggests a range of 'how-to' techniques for perfecting these academic and practical skills. It explains how to work with legal texts; how to read and write about the law; how to acquire effective disciplined study techniques; and how to construct legal arguments. Packed full of practical examples and diagrams across the range of legal skills from language and research skills to mooting and negotiation, this edition will be invaluable to law students seeking to acquire a deeper understanding of how to apply each discreet legal skill effectively. This restructured third edition is now additionally supported by a Companion Website offering a wealth of additional resources for individual and group work for both students and lecturers. For students, the Companion Website offers: workbooks for each part, containing guided practical and reflective tasks a series of ‘how-to’ exercises, which help to provide real-life legal skills examples and practice guidance on answering legal problem and essay-style questions self-test quizzes to consolidate learning for each individual legal skill. For lecturers, the Companion Website hosts: a set of PowerPoint slides of the diagrams in the text specimen seminar plans, with supplementary notes to provide support and inspiration for teaching legal skills sample legal skills assessment, and accompanying answers.

Legal Writing from the Top Down is the renamed and thoroughly revised second edition of Timothy Perrin's best-selling Better Writing for Lawyers. The original book, published by the Law Society of Upper Canada (Ontario) in 1990, was required reading for every new lawyer in that province. It has been licensed for use in courses as far afield as Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia. This new edition incorporates new research on how to write effectively and new tools you can use to become a better, more persuasive lawyer.