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    <title>practical guide to legal writing and legal method</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Dernbach, John C.</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1953-</namePart>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>Aspen Publishers</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c2010</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2010</dateIssued>
    <edition>4th ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xxiii, 493 p. forms 26 cm. teacher's manual.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Rules and policies -- Sources of law -- Case analysis and case briefs -- Precedent and stare decisis -- Understanding legal rules -- Identifying and selecting issues for analysis -- Common law analysis -- Statutory analysis -- Reaching a conclusion -- Organization -- Describing the law -- Explaining the analysis -- Signposting -- Drafting the discussion -- Revising and editing -- Elements of an office memorandum -- The discussion -- Statement of facts for a memorandum -- Questions presented -- Opinion letters -- Elements of a brief -- Structure of an argument -- Persuasive writing -- Point headings -- Statement of facts for a brief -- Briefs to a trial court -- Briefs to an appellate court.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">John C. Dernbach ... [et al.].</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references (p. 481-488) and index.</note>
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    <topic>Legal composition</topic>
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    <topic>Law</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Methodology</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Law</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Language</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">KF 250 .P72 2010</classification>
  <classification authority="ddc" edition="22">808/.06634</classification>
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