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Legal communication and research : lawyering skills for the twenty-first century
Title
Legal communication and research : lawyering skills for the twenty-first century / Ian Gallacher.
ISBN
9781611636109
1611636108
Publication
Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, [2015]
Physical Description
xxiv, 493 pages ; 26 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 01, 2015
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Reading in law school
What is legal writing?
Legal rhetoric
The reader as client
Empathy, lawyering , and writing
The ethics of writing
The writing process
Voice
Words
Sentences
Paragraphs
Section headings
Case quotations and why to avoid them
Legal citation : why do we care?
Legal citation : the mechanics
Writer's block and soem ways to overcome it
Editing and proofreading
The legal memorandum
Legal correspondence
Analytical structure : getting started
Analytical structure : getting more involved
Working with facts
Identifying and working with legal rules
Working with statutes
How to persuade
Oral argument and oral presentations
Why bother to study legal research?
How do we find information?
Where legal information is stored?
The cost of legal research
Key numbers and digests
The research process in theory
The research process in practice
Legislative history
Statutory research
Regulatory research
What to do when things go wrong.
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