Legal Writing and Analysis: [Connected eBook with Study Center]

by Linda H. Edwards, Samantha A. Moppett

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Linda H. Edward and Samantha A. Moppett’s Legal Writing and Analysis, Sixth Edition, is an essential guide for legal writing students.

The Sixth Edition of Legal Writing and Analysis provides a clear guide to developing legal writing and analysis skills for novice legal writers. In a sequence that mirrors legal practice, students learn to read and analyze the law; write the analysis of a legal issue; and compose office memos, e-memos, professional correspondence, and briefs. The book introduces students to various forms of legal reasoning including rule-based, analogical, policy-based, principle-based, custom-based, inferential, and narrative, complete with exercises.   

New to the Sixth Edition:

• The discussion of e-memos has been expanded to reflect the changes in legal practice. 
• The citation chapter has been updated to conform to the rules in the new editions of the ALWD Guide to Legal Citation and The Bluebook. 
• Information about the proper use of texting in legal practice has been added to the chapter on professional correspondence. 
• The chapter on writing style now includes a discussion of the proper use of they as a singular pronoun. 
• Information about Native American tribes, the third sovereign entity in the United States, has been added. 

Professors and students will benefit from:

• Down-to-earth and easy to understand presentation of first-year legal writing topics 
• Complete coverage of objective writing, persuasive writing, and professional correspondence 
• Clear explanations and concrete examples that support a range of learning styles 
• Numerous exercises that offer opportunities to develop writing skills through practice 
• Sample office memorandum, e-memo, professional correspondence, trial brief, and appellate brief conveniently located in the Appendices

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781543858518
Publisher:	Wolters Kluwer Law & Business
Publication date:	01/31/2023
Series:	Aspen Coursebook Series
Edition description:	Sixth Edition
Pages:	358
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. First Things First

Part I. The Process of Writing Predictively: The Office Memo

Stage One. Structuring For Analysis: Outlining the Working Draft

Chapter 2. Outlining a Rule of Law
Chapter 3. Outlining a Rule to Organize Your Analysis of a Legal Issue
Chapter 4. Formulating a Rule from a Case Opinion
Chapter 5. Formulating a Rule from Multiple Authorities
Chapter 6. Using a Rule to Form the Structure: Special Circumstances

Stage Two. Drafting for Analysis: Writing the Working Draft

Chapter 7. Writing the Analysis of a Single Issue: Rule Explanation
Chapter 8. Writing the Analysis of a Single Issue: Rule Application
Chapter 9. Writing the Analysis of a Single Issue: Organizing and Writing the Discussion of Multiple Authorities
Chapter 10.Writing the Analysis of Multiple Issues

Stage Three. Converting the Working Draft to an Office Memo

Chapter 11. The Office Memo and the Law-Trained Reader
Chapter 12. Organizing for Your Reader: The Discussion Section
Chapter 13. Completing the Draft of the Office Memo

Stage Four. Revising to Achieve a Final Draft

Chapter 14. Citations and Quotations
Chapter 15. Revising for Usage and Style

Part II. Professional Letter Writing

Chapter 16. Writing Professional Letters

Part III. The Process of Writing Persuasively: The Brief

Stage One. Structuring for Persuasion: Outlining the Working Draft

Chapter 17. Ethics, Judges, and Briefs
Chapter 18. Formulating and Structuring a Favorable Rule

Stage Two. Drafting for Persuasion: Writing the Working Draft

Chapter 19. Drafting Working Headings
Chapter 20. Writing the Working Draft

Stage Three. Converting the Working Draft to a Brief

Chapter 21. The Argument and the Format of the Brief
Chapter 22. The Statement of Facts

Stage Four. Revising to Achieve a Final Draft

Chapter 23. Editing the Brief
Chapter 24. Oral Argument

Appendix A. Sample Office Memorandum
Appendix B. Sample Office Memorandum
Appendix C. Sample Letters
Appendix D. Sample Trial-Level Brief
Appendix E. Sample Appellate Brief
Appendix F. Sample Appellate Brief
Appendix G. Cases Used in the Text’s Examples and Exercises