The legal writing handbook analysis, research, and writing
Laurel Currie Oates, Anne Enquist, Kelly Kunsch.
- 3rd ed.
- New York Aspen Law & Business c2002.
- xxxvi, 954 p. ill. 26 cm. teacher's manual.
Includes index.
Course in legal analysis, research, and writing -- Foundation for legal writing -- Overview of the United States legal system -- Introduction to common and enacted law -- Reading and analyzing statutes and cases -- Objective memoranda, client letters, and briefs -- Objective memorandum: its purpose, audience, and format -- First memorandum -- Second memorandum -- Opinion letter -- Writing a trial brief -- Writing an appellate brief -- Oral advocacy -- Resources in legal research, style, and grammar -- Guide to legal research -- Introduction to legal research -- Legislative branch -- Executive branch and administrative agencies -- Judicial branch -- Secondary sources -- Citators -- Computer-assisted legal research -- How to approach a legal research problem -- Guide to effective writing -- Effective writing - the whole paper -- Connections between paragraphs -- Effective paragraphs -- Connections between sentences -- Effective sentences -- Effective words -- Eloquence -- Guide to correct writing -- Grammar -- Punctuation -- Mechanics -- Legal writing for English-as-a-Second language students. sec. I A pt. I A ch. 1 An ch. 2 An ch. 3 pt. 2 ch. 4 The ch. 5 The ch. 6 The ch. 7 The ch. 8 ch. 9 ch. 10 sec. II pt. 3 A ch. 11 ch. 12 Constitutions and charters -- ch. 13 The ch. 14 The ch. 15 The ch. 16 ch. 17 ch. 18 ch. 19 pt. 4 ch. 20 ch. 21 ch. 22 ch. 23 ch. 24 ch. 25 ch. 26 pt. 5 A ch. 27 ch. 28 ch. 29 ch. 30