Professional Writing for Lawyers: Skills and Responsibilities
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ISBN: 0890898049 / Publisher: Carolina Academic Press, August 1998
Professional Writing for Lawyers is a stand-alone legal writing text for first-year law students. Re...
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Professional Writing for Lawyers is a stand-alone legal writing text for first-year law students. Readers learn to approach-writing as a process of thinking, outlining, drafting, revising, and editing to produce a final draft. Examples of common writing assignments, an office memorandum, a client letter, a demand letter, a complaint, a memorandum evaluating responsive pleadings, a motion to dismiss, an oral argument, and an appellate brief, are included to help the reader see and understand this process at work. Each assignment integrates the principles of plain English that teach the reader to develop a clear, concise, and readable style. The book also examines how principles of professional responsibility apply in these common legal writing tasks. The easy-to-read style and quick reference value of Professional Writing for Lawyers will continue to serve the law student well as a practicing attorney.
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