Legal communication and research
Subtitle: lawyering skills for the twenty-first century
By: Ian Gallacher
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Durham, North Carolina
Language: eng
Number of pages: 493
ISBN-13: 9781611636109
Subjects: Legal research; Legal composition; Communication in law
Description: "This comprehensive textbook covers predictive and persuasive writing and legal research, and is written in an informal style intended to appeal to today's law students. The book walks students through the writing process in short, easily understood chapters and stresses the importance of understanding the underlying principles of legal research rather than discussing the specific mechanics of ever-changing research resources. In addition to the standard topics covered in legal writing and research texts, the book offers chapters on reading, the ethics of writing, overcoming writer's block, and oral argument, and emphasizes at all points a client-based approach to lawyering skills"--Unedited summary from book cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Reading in law school; title: What is legal writing?; title: Legal rhetoric; title: The reader as client; title: Empathy, lawyering , and writing; title: The ethics of writing; title: The writing process; title: Voice - Words; title: Sentences; title: Paragraphs; title: Section headings; title: Case quotations and why to avoid them; title: Legal citation : why do we care?; title: Legal citation : the mechanics; title: Writer's block and some ways to overcome it; title: Editing and proofreading; title: The legal memorandum; title: Legal correspondence; title: Analytical structure : getting started; title: Analytical structure : getting more involved; title: Working with facts; title: Identifying and working with legal rules; title: Working with statutes; title: How to persuade; title: Oral argument and oral presentations; title: Why bother to study legal research?; title: How do we find information?; title: Where legal information is stored?; title: The cost of legal research; title: Key numbers and digests; title: The research process in theory; title: The research process in practice; title: Legislative history; title: Statutory research; title: Regulatory research; title: What to do when things go wrong.