Legal Writing in a Nutshell offers practical guidance for organizing office memoranda and appellate briefs. Teaches how to write in the objective and argumentative styles. Provides practical solutions to common problems faced by law students and legal writers. Suggests simple methods to improve sentence structure, paragraphing, and transitions.
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This book covers the fundamentals of legal writing so thoroughly and carefully that it could well substitute for many first-year legal-writing texts. Its approach may strike experienced writers as too traditional or too basic. Still, for the novice it will provide a solid grounding in legal-writing style, legal analysis, legal memos, letter writing, and persuasive writing. Many practicing lawyers would do well to heed the teachings in this book.One critique: Persuasion is so common in law schools' first-year, legal-writing courses that this Nutshell probably had to cover it. But it covers it cursorily and might well have left it out. Persuasive writing is a topic that can (and does) fill entire books.
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It Won't Teach You to Write, but Will Give You a Pretty Decent BluePrint,
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Like all of West's nutshell series, this little book packs a powerful punch. I purchased it for a review prior to taking a paralegal certification exam and found it to be very valuable. It gives good, solid guidelines for legal writing as well as practical examples. I highly recommend this book to any law or paralegal student needing to get a handle on the legal writing process. It will help you narrow your focus and better identify the audience for this type of writing.
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Would recommend to any 1L or legal studies student,
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This review is from: Legal Writing in a Nutshell, 4th (In a Nutshell (West Publishing)) (Paperback)
I couldn't wait to delve into Legal Writing in a Nutshell. This is a great book, that explains legal writing for the novice. I purchased the book for my legal writing college course, but will use it for L & R in law school as well.
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United States Supreme Court, Brief Answer, Useful Patterns, Citing Act, Model One, Use Parentheses New!
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United States Supreme Court, Brief Answer, Useful Patterns, Citing Act, Model One, Use Parentheses New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Oxford Fowler's Modern English Usage Dictionary by H. W. Fowler in Back Matter
- Legal Thesaurus by William C. Burton in Back Matter
- The Language of the Law by David Mellinkoff in Back Matter
- The Holt Guide to English by William F. Irmscher in Front Matter
- Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student by Edward P. J. Corbett in Back Matter
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- Introduction To Classical Legal Rhetoric: A Lost Heritage (Applied Legal Philosophy) by Michael H. Frost on page 118, and Back Matter
- Legal Reasoning, Research, and Writing for International Graduate Students by Nadia E. Nedzel on page 191
- California Civil Procedure in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell (West Publishing)) by William R. Slomanson in Front Matter
- Sex Discrimination in a Nutshell (Nutshell Series) by Claire Sherman Thomas in Front Matter
- A Practical Guide to Appellate Advocacy (Coursebook Series) by Mary Beth Beazley on page 159
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