Legal Writing and Other Lawyering Skills, Fourth Edition

By Nancy L. Schultz

Book Overview

With a consistent emphasis on precision and good organization, LegalWriting and Other Lawyering Skills, Fifth Edition, shows students how todraft memoranda, opinion letters, pleadings, briefs, and other legaldocuments. But because communication in the practice of law occurs in specificcontexts, authors Nancy L. Schultz and Louis J. Sirico, Jr .teach other valuable lawyering skills, such as client counseling, negotiating,and how to present an oral argument before the court, in this timely andstudent-friendly text.Now with a more contemporary look that reflects a new publisher andrevisions requested by users of the text, the Fifth Edition of Legal Writingand Other Lawyering Skills features:a straightforward and student-friendly approach, framed and supportedby a logical organizationstreamlined coverage that focuses on basic communication skills in practicecomplete coverage of legal writing--with outstanding chapters on writingstyle and how to write a memoin-depth instruction on legal analysis, oral argument, and how to write anappellate briefa helpful preliminary overview of the American legal systemrefreshed, updated, and carefully honed practice exercisesexpanded coverage of electronic researchnew coverage of electronic communicationformat, etiquette, ethics, andliabilitythoroughly up-to-date court citations, cases, and sample documentsgenerous use of sample documents within the text and in the AppendicesThe focused exercises and examples in Legal Writing and OtherLawyering Skills, Fifth Edition, simulate the tasks performed by lawyersin practice and reflect the authors' forward-looking, practice-based approachto teaching writing and lawyering skills to law students

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0735594023
• ISBN13: 9780735594029
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Aspen Publishers
• Length: 415 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 9.9"