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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

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• Chapter 1 Overview
• Chapter 2 Learning about the Legal System
• Chapter 3 Research and Strategy
• Chapter 4 How to Brief a Case
• Chapter 5 Introduction to Legal Analysis
• Chapter 6 Purpose, Context, and Structure
• Chapter 7 Make Your Main Themes Stand Out
• Chapter 8 Help the Reader to Understand You
• Chapter 9 Meeting the Client
• Chapter 10 Introduction to the Memo
• Chapter 11 The Memo: Heading, Issue, and Conclusion
• Chapter 12 Practice with Drafting Memos: Headings, Issues, and Conclusions
• Chapter 13 The Memo: Facts and Discussion
• Chapter 14 Practice with Memos: Facts and Discussion
• Chapter 15 Writing the Client Opinion Letter
• Chapter 16 Practice with Client Letters
• Chapter 17 Advising the Client
• Chapter 18 Negotiating
• Chapter 19 Communicating Electronically
• Chapter 20 Drafting Pleadings
• Chapter 21 Practice with Pleadings
• Chapter 22 Writing Persuasively
• Chapter 23 Writing Pre-Trial Motions
• Chapter 24 Introduction to Writing Briefs
• Chapter 25 Appellate Process and Standard of Review
• Chapter 26 The Appellate Brief: The Introductory Parts
• Chapter 27 The Appellate Brief: Statement of Facts; Summary of Argument
• Chapter 28 Practice in Writing the Statement of Facts and Summary of Argument
• Chapter 29 The Appellate Brief: Argument and Conclusion
• Chapter 30 Basic Principles of Oral Communication
• Chapter 31 The Appellate Argument
• Appendices
• I Memoranda
• II Client Letters
• III Pleadings
• IV Grammar and Punctuation