U.S. legal reasoning, writing, and practice for international lawyers
By: John B. Thornton, Clinical Assistant Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law
Publisher: LexisNexis
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New Providence, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780769856568
Subjects: Law; Legal research; Practice of law; Legal composition; Foreign Lawyers; Handbooks, manuals
Other titles: United States legal resoning, writing and practice for international lawyers
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: A brief history of the common law in the United States; title: Similarities and differences between civil law systems and the U.S. legal system; title: The constitution and the U.S. system of government; title: The three-tiered U.S. court system; title: Reading cases; title: Writing a case brief; title: Organizing information from cases; title: The civil litigation process in the United States; title: Deductive and inductive reasoning; title: Introduction to U.S. legal rhetoric; title: Contrasts between the rhetorical styles of english and of other languages; title: Writing the office memorandum: large-scale and small-scale organization; title: The heart of legal reasoning; title: Citations to authority; title: The question presented, the short answer, and executive summaries; title: The introduction, or statement of facts; title: Writing and editing the work: verb tenses, articles, plurals, and punctutation; title: Editing unnecessary language and checking for proper legal vocabulary, active voice, and action verbs; title: Overview of legal research; title: Working in U.S. law firms; title: Writing emails and the email memorandum; title: Writing client letters and letters to opposing counsel; title: Overview of contract drafting; title: Law school skills : preparing for and taking final examinations.